Obituary: Michael Richard Bleier, 1979-2024 | Obituaries | Seven days

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Parents of Michael Richard Bleier want to know that beloved son Michael, age 45, passed away peacefully on June 22, 2024 at 6:33 a.m. under the care of Hospice House in Concord, NH

Michael was born on January 10, 1979 in Mount Kisco, NY to mother Marjory Bleier Bissette and the late Steven Bleier. He lived in Chappaqua and Bedford, NY until the age of fifteen, where he attended Douglas Grafflin Elementary School and Rippowam Cisqua School. Mike graduated from Brattleboro Union High School, class of 1997, after his mother, Marjory, and moved to Vermont in 1994. He attended the University of Vermont, graduated from Vermont Technical College in Randolph, Virginia, and went on to earn his journeyman and electrician licenses.

Michael excelled in soccer, hiking, rock and ice climbing, skiing and other sports, and was a member of the ski patrol at Sugarbush Ski Resort in Vermont for 13 years. He later taught his children and many of their classmates to ski and coached soccer and lacrosse. Michael enjoyed the trip of a lifetime to Italy to ski the Alps in March 2023.

In 1999, while working as part of the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps at Emerald Lake Park, Michael met Mary Lauscha of Rutland, Vt. They married in 2006 and moved to New Hampshire, where they settled to start their own family.

In 2011, Michael launched Applied Cabling Technologies LLC (ACT), expanding electrical services to business, educational and residential customers in New Hampshire and Vermont. Michael became a member of the BNI business association in August 2011; BNI awarded Michael the 2023 Chapter Member of the Year, noting, “Mike has served Twin City BNI over the years in nearly every position on the leadership team…Even as he faced numerous health challenges, he remained Twin State BNI serve as a member of the Membership Committee.”

In May 2023, Michael was diagnosed with unmethylated glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Mother Marjory and stepfather Stephen Bissette drove Michael to almost every medical appointment, treatment, and ACT business commitment, allowing Mike’s wife and children to live relatively normal lives until he decided to discontinue treatment in late May 2024.

Michael is survived by his parents Marjory and Stephen Bissette of Windsor, Virginia; brother, William Bleier; stepbrother, Daniel Bissette; stepsister, Maia Rose Bissette; five children, Hayden, Rosalyn, Aggie, Jonny and Reuben; and wife, Mary, of Springfield, NH

There will be a memorial service on July 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM at First Baptist Church in New London, NH, with a reception to follow. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to On Belay at on-belay.org to support children affected by cancer in their families.

Michael’s love and dedication to family, friends, community, business associates and employees, clients and everyone whose path he crossed made an indelible, positive difference in countless lives. Michael’s quiet, caring, open and kind nature, as well as his passion, strength, resourcefulness, spirit and smile, will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him.