Elizabeth Levasseur, 1917-2007

My grandmother passed away recently.

From the obituary posted over at VillageSoup.com:

ROCKLAND (Dec 15): Elizabeth F. Levasseur, 90, died following an extended illness, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007 at Quarry Hill in Camden.

Born June 24, 1917 in Brattleboro, Vermont, she was the daughter of Edward and Carla Ebbinghausen Flood. Educated in Brattleboro, parochial schools she was a 1934 graduate of St. Michaels High School. Mrs. Levasseur attended Brattleboro Business Institute and worked several years as a bookkeeper.

On June 23, 1938 she married Richard J. Levasseur, Sr. in Brattleboro. The couple raised two sons and made their home there until Mrs. Levasseur moved to Rockland in 2003.

She was employed at Brattleboro Vermont National Bank as a window teller. She eventually rose to the position of Commercial Loan Officer, retiring in 1975. Upon her retirement she simultaneously cared for her ailing husband and mother.

For more than 20 years, she served as a volunteer at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and the American Red Cross. She was a lifelong communicant of St. Michael's Parish.

Predeceased by her husband, Mrs. Levasseur is survived by her sons and their wives, Richard J. and Peggy Joyce Levasseur of Owls Head, Thomas G. and Beryl Levasseur of West Rockport; one brother John Flood of Sturgeon, Missouri; three grandsons, David Levasseur and his wife Traci, Douglas Levasseur, Shawn Levasseur; three granddaughters, Sharon Levasseur, Nicole Prentiss and her husband Richard, Angela Caverly and her husband Todd; eight great-grandchildren, Amanda, Kyle, Devin, Katherine, Nicholas, Levi, Carl, and Helen, as well as many dear nieces and nephews.

Family and friends are invited to visit from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007 at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland, where a Celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007. The Reverend Mark Reinhardt will officiate. Interment will be held at St. Michael's Cemetery, Brattleboro, Vermont, in the Spring.