Virginia M. Gagne
NAPLES, Fla. – Virginia M. Gagne, 96, of Naples Fla., handed peacefully together with her loving household by her facet on March 6, 2022.
She was born on April 12, 1925 in Outdated City, the daughter of Francis and Claudia Richard, additionally the stepdaughter of her adoptive mother and father, Israel and Amelia Paradis of Lewiston. Virginia graduated from Lewiston Excessive in 1944 then began her profession as a secretary within the mill workplaces in Lewiston.
In 1946 she married Raymond Gagne of Lewiston. They had been married for 70 years till his dying in 2016 and lived in Auburn of their home for 60 years.
She leaves behind their youngsters Linda Cohen (Jim Burger), Richard Gagne, and Debra Wooden (John); her grandchildren Lee Cohen (predeceased), Robert Cohen (Kelly), Derek Wooden (Joanna), Andrea Wooden Theriault (Lucas); her great-grandchildren Max Cohen, Charlotte Virginia Theriault, and Daisy Wooden. Virginia was very near her many nieces and nephews.
As soon as their children had been all at school, she resumed her secretarial profession working on the workplaces of UFCW for 17 years. Virginia was a religious Catholic and a member of St Peter’s and Paul’s, Sacred Coronary heart, and St Phillips Church buildings. She was very concerned in her neighborhood (Auburn), as an lively member of Prospect Hill Golf Course, Robin Dow Seniors, and the Ladies’s Literary Society. She was a soprano choir member for 20 years within the Maine Music Society’s Androscoggin Choral Group and sang solos at many weddings, funerals, and native capabilities.
She was additionally very concerned in her youngsters’s and grandchildren’s lives. When she wasn’t with them, she was snowboarding, {golfing}, taking part in the piano, singing, bowling, portray, studying or crocheting. On the age of 87, Virginia and Ray moved from Maine to a senior neighborhood in Naples, Fla. to be nearer to their three youngsters. She remained fairly lively within the Naples neighborhood by organizing weekly Cribbage video games, becoming a member of in a Senior Placing League, and continued to sing, paint, play piano, and act in an annual Cabaret present. She was an inspiration to her household and all that knew her.
A Mass of Christian Burial will probably be celebrated Wednesday June 22 at 10 a.m. within the upstairs most important church at The Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Committal Gracelawn Memorial Park. To go away a message within the household’s on-line guestbook, please go to http://www.thefortingrouplewiston.com
A service of The Fortin Group Funeral Residence and Cremation Service, 70 Horton St., Lewiston, 784-4584
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