OBITUARY
 Michael
Vercontaire
March 2, 1980 - April 1, 2019
Michael Vercontaire of Allen, Texas formerly of Leominster,
Massachusetts, passed away at home on April 1, 2019 at the age of 39. He
was born in Leominster on March 2, 1980, the second of what became a
family of three children to Joseph Henry and Suzanne Francis (Marcoux)
Vercontaire. Michael was a pool shark who found his way to the Lord. He
was a son, brother, uncle, and friend who put his family first and
treated everyone with love, kindness and respect, and he could fix
anything. Michael lived in Leominster and attended Northwest School
before the family moved to Texas in 1992. He received his GED at Newman
Smith High School in Carrollton, Texas.
Michael Vercontaire worked alongside his father in the family business,
Vercontaire and Sons, renovating houses. He was skilled in painting,
plastering, tiling, and all the detail work that makes for a polished
finished project, and in the comfortable give-and-take of working
side-by-side, Michael and his father, Joseph, achieved a productive
rhythm. The kind of craftsman who made all aspects of the work look
easy, he also owned and operated his own business, Michael’s Home
Improvement.
Michael lavished his skills on his family and friends and had just
recently designed and completed a special project for his brother,
Jason, of Carrollton, Texas. “So much of our house has Mike all over it,
from the locks on our doors, to the brand new “man cave” that he and Joe
- but mostly Mike - built for Jay,” said his sister-in-law, BJ
Vercontaire. “Michael had a way of just knowing how things work. He took
my car for a few days last month and fixed several things on it. I asked
if he watched YouTube videos to figure it out and he said, ‘No, that’s
just how my brain works.’”
Michael Vercontaire also had a reputation as a pool player to be
reckoned with. He played as a semi-professional in tournaments for about
20 years. In that world, said his friend Brian Green, he was one of a
kind. “Mike was the type of person you don’t meet very often. It didn’t
take long for me to realize he really had an inherent sense of morality
and generally cared about people, which is a rare characteristic,
especially in a pool hall.” Combining his love of pool and family, he
was in the process of teaching his 4 year-old niece, Gracie, some of the
tricks of the trade and had made her a pool cue out of PVC piping.
Like many, Michael found himself questioning his role in this world and
embarked on a spiritual quest that brought him to a realization of the
power of God, through the love of Jesus. He experienced real joy in his
awakening and had become positive about his future. Michael told a
friend, “I didn’t realize that God could do those kinds of things.”
Michael is survived by his parents, Joseph and Suzanne Vercontaire of
Allen, Texas; brother, Jason Vercontaire and wife, B.J. of Carrollton,
Texas; sister, Nicole Marie Speckhard and husband, Ben of Nashua, New
Hampshire; nephew, Logan Speckhard; nieces, Grace Vercontaire and Leia
Vercontaire; grandparents, Albert Marcoux and Joanna Marcoux; and
numerous other loving family and friends.
A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 2019
at Christ Fellowship Church, 2801 Orchid Dr., McKinney, Texas 75072. |
Submitted by Edward Lynn
Williams |
Carrollton-Farmers
Branch TXGenWeb