Sr. Gisele Boucher Obituary (1925 - 2008)

Waterville Sr. Gisele Boucher, CSJ, 82, died Mar. 7, 2008 at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Thayer Unit, in Waterville. She was born in Lewiston, Oct. 5, 1925, daughter of Jean Charles and Carmelle Grenier Boucher. She attended Holy Family School in Lewiston and graduated from Lewiston High School, after which she worked at the Lewiston Sun-Journal for one year and at the Maine State Dept. of Health and Welfare, Auburn office for one year. Sister Gisele entered the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon in So. Berwick in 1945 and made her first profession on Aug. 13, 1947. She completed her normal training courses in business at Auburn Maine School of Commerce; her BS in Business Education at Husson College, Bangor; a BA in Social Sciences at LaMennais College in Alfred; and an MLS in Library Science at the University of Maine in Orono. Sister taught at St. Rose of Lima School in Chisholm; Sacred Heart Academy in Jackman; St. John the Baptist School in Winslow; Academy of St. Joseph in So. Berwick; McIntosh College in Dove, NH; and St. Domic Regional High School in Lewiston. She served as secretary and bookkeeper at Notre Dame Parish in Waterville from 1977 to 1988 and as secretary at St. Joseph Provincialate, Winslow from 1987 to 1994. She served as the American secretary at three General Chapters held in Switzerland, France, and Italy. She also participated in an international seminar held in Orsay, France. In later years, she visited and brought Holy Comunion to the elderly and sick parishioners of St. John the Baptist Parish, Winslow and of the Holy Cross Parish, Lewiston. She retired to Mount St. Joseph, Waterville in Feb. 2003. She is survived by one brother, Roger Boucher and sister-in-law Joan Leclerc of McLean, VA; two sisters, Jacqueline Boucher Benoit Letendre of Lewiston, Helen and brother-in-law, Leonel L'Heureux of Winthrop; a sister-in-law, Constance Demers Marcel Boucher of Fort Myers, FL; sister-in-law, Germaine Jutras Jean Charles Boucher, Jr. of Turner; brother-in-law, Francis McAvoy Monique Boucher of Lewiston; as well as several nephews and nieces, grand-nephews and grand-nieces. She was predeceased by two sisters, Carmelle and husband Jeffrey Brikates and Monique Boucher; two brothers, Marcel Boucher and Jean-Charles Boucher, Jr. Friends may call Monday, Mar. 10, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Gallant Funeral Home, 10 Elm St., Waterville. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tues., Mar. 11, at St. John the Baptist Church, 47 Monument St., Winslow. Burial will follow at St. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Lewiston. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in her memory may be sent to Sisters of St. Joseph Ministry Fund, 93 Halifax St., Winslow, ME 04901.