Rose M. Paquette

WEST STEWARTSTOWN, NH -- Mrs. Rose M. Paquette, 98, of West Stewartstown, NH, and formerly of Beecher Falls, Vt., passed away at the Coös County Nursing Hospital in West Stewartstown late Friday evening, July 2, 2010, after a long period of declining health and with her family by her side. Born on Christmas Eve in 1911, in St. Malo, Québec, she was the daughter of the late Gideon and Camille (LeHoux) Drouin. For many years, Rose was a homemaker who enjoyed raising her family and helping her husband on the family farm. She also cooked for the Duranleau family at the Spa Restaurant, at Jackson’s Lodge on Wallace Pond, and at the Northland Restaurant in Canaan. Prior to retiring, she also worked repairing furniture at the Ethan Allen Furniture Factory in Beecher Falls. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, quilting, and all other hand-crafts, making clothes, cooking, cleaning her home and tending to her gardens and flowers. She also very much enjoyed having company visit her. Rose was a communicant at St. Albert’s Catholic Church in West Stewartstown. Rose leaves behind her daughter, Suzanne Madore and husband, Eusebe, of Pittsburg, NH; two sons, Real Paquette and fiancee Brenda of Littleton, NH, and Andre Paquette and wife Solange of Goffstown, NH; a sister, Jeanne Paquette of Coaticook, Quebec; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; and many, many nieces, nephews and cousins. She is preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters. Calling hours will be held on Monday, July 5, 2010, from 2-4 & 6-8 p.m. at the Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook, NH. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday, July 6, at 10:00 a.m. at St. Albert’s Catholic Church in West Stewartstown with The Reverend Craig Cheney as celebrant. Interment will follow at St. Henrie Cemetery in East Hereford, Quebec. Expressions of sympathy in memory of Mrs. Paquette may be made to the North American Martyrs’ Parish for the benefit of St. Albert’s Church, 55 Pleasant St., Colebrook, NH 03576. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home, Colebrook, NH.

Rose M. Paquette

December 24, 1911 - July 2, 2010