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September 19, 2023
Services
Friends may visit from 4-8 PM on Friday, September 29, 2023, with a service during visiting hours at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Saturday September 30, 2023, at 9:30 AM family and friends will gather at the funeral home, followed by interment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa, NJ.
Evelyn M. Boissonneault, age 91, of Butler, passed on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
She was born to the late Rose and Victor Thibault in Acushnet, MA and raised in Island Park, Rhode Island.
Evelyn met Ray as he wanted to go fishing with his brother Leo and they spied a boat in Evelyn’s yard. They knocked on the door asking if they could borrow the boat and Evelyn immediately realized these two guys needed help with fishing as they were in dress clothes. Ray and Evelyn had a first date at a drive-in movie and instead of the normal popcorn they had a container of crab legs they ate in the car during the film. They soon fell in love and married, when she was just eighteen years old at St. Anthony’s Church in Portsmouth, RI on August 26, 1950. After they married, they lived in Fall River, MA, Paterson, NJ, Lodi, NJ, before moving to Butler, NJ in 1964.
Through the years Evelyn has worked at St. George’s School in Paterson, NJ, and St. Joseph’s School in Lodi as a cafeteria worker. Evelyn worked the second shift in Paterson, the kids would be tended to by a babysitter as they waited for their dad to come home from work. She also worked at Maloney’s Machine Shop in Bloomingdale, Edo-Aire in Fairfield, and the Generant Company in West Milford before retiring in 1994.
Evelyn was dedicated to her Catholic faith and for many years attended St Anthony’s Church in Butler. Evelyn was an avid reader, she enjoyed reading novels of suspense and romance. Some of her favorite authors were Phyllis A. Whitney, Jean Anne Bartlett, and Mary Stewert among several others. Evelyn also loved watching and listening to birds and reading books about them. Family was everything to Evelyn, she enjoyed having everyone around. She had a spit-fire personality and did not possess the ability to sugar-coat anything. She just said it as she saw it. She would go above and beyond to help anyone. Evelyn will always be remembered as fun-loving, funny, accommodating to a fault, and will be most remembered for her kind, beautiful soul.
She was the loving wife of fifty-two years to the late Raymond Boissonneault (d. 2002); she was the devoted mother of Colleen Basile and her husband Mike of Lewes, DE, the late June Bardi (d. 2020) and her late husband Gary (d. 2006), Linda Miller and her husband Andy of Milton, DE, and Cheryl Roscoe of Butler; cherished grandmother of Michele Aldridge and her husband Chris of Salisbury, NC, Michael Basile and his wife Barbara of Bethel, CT, the late Jennifer Dey (d. 2006) , the late Jason Bardi (d. 2022), Heather Muckelston and Keith Hestermann of Forked River, NJ, Bryan Miller and his wife Bonnielee of Anchorage, AK, Christopher Miller and his wife Nicole of Chester, NJ, Danielle Roscoe of Butler, NJ, Nicole Beek and her late husband Robert (d. 2022) of Bloomingdale, NJ, Tiffany Troup and her husband Mike of Bloomingdale, NJ, her sister the late Loretta Legre Goguen (d. 1993) and her brother the late Henry Thibault (d. 2005). She was dearly loved by twenty-one great grandchildren: Amber, Krista, Cameron, Thomas, Ana, Liam, Gabrielle, Benjamin, Teagan, Briar, Logan, Hayden, Hudson, Paisley, Hunter, Skyler, Ryleigh, Willow, Cedar, Charlotte, and Koda. One great-great-grandson: Luke.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations would be greatly appreciated. Evelyn truly enjoyed the time she spent, and the friends she made, at Shepherd's Haven Social Adult Day Center in Pompton Lakes, and your memorial donations would be very meaningful here. You can visit their website at www.shepherdshavennj.org, or mail your donation to: Shepherd's Haven, 420 Ramapo Avenue, Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442
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Friends may visit from 4-8 PM on Friday, September 29, 2023, with a service during visiting hours at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Saturday September 30, 2023, at 9:30 AM family and friends will gather at the funeral home, followed by interment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa, NJ.
September 19, 2023
Services
Friends may visit from 4-8 PM on Friday, September 29, 2023, with a service during visiting hours at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, NJ.
Saturday September 30, 2023, at 9:30 AM family and friends will gather at the funeral home, followed by interment at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa, NJ.
Evelyn M. Boissonneault, age 91, of Butler, passed on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
She was born to the late Rose and Victor Thibault in Acushnet, MA and raised in Island Park, Rhode Island.
Evelyn met Ray as he wanted to go fishing with his brother Leo and they spied a boat in Evelyn’s yard. They knocked on the door asking if they could borrow the boat and Evelyn immediately realized these two guys needed help with fishing as they were in dress clothes. Ray and Evelyn had a first date at a drive-in movie and instead of the normal popcorn they had a container of crab legs they ate in the car during the film. They soon fell in love and married, when she was just eighteen years old at St. Anthony’s Church in Portsmouth, RI on August 26, 1950. After they married, they lived in Fall River, MA, Paterson, NJ, Lodi, NJ, before moving to Butler, NJ in 1964.
Through the years Evelyn has worked at St. George’s School in Paterson, NJ, and St. Joseph’s School in Lodi as a cafeteria worker. Evelyn worked the second shift in Paterson, the kids would be tended to by a babysitter as they waited for their dad to come home from work. She also worked at Maloney’s Machine Shop in Bloomingdale, Edo-Aire in Fairfield, and the Generant Company in West Milford before retiring in 1994.
Evelyn was dedicated to her Catholic faith and for many years attended St Anthony’s Church in Butler. Evelyn was an avid reader, she enjoyed reading novels of suspense and romance. Some of her favorite authors were Phyllis A. Whitney, Jean Anne Bartlett, and Mary Stewert among several others. Evelyn also loved watching and listening to birds and reading books about them. Family was everything to Evelyn, she enjoyed having everyone around. She had a spit-fire personality and did not possess the ability to sugar-coat anything. She just said it as she saw it. She would go above and beyond to help anyone. Evelyn will always be remembered as fun-loving, funny, accommodating to a fault, and will be most remembered for her kind, beautiful soul.
She was the loving wife of fifty-two years to the late Raymond Boissonneault (d. 2002); she was the devoted mother of Colleen Basile and her husband Mike of Lewes, DE, the late June Bardi (d. 2020) and her late husband Gary (d. 2006), Linda Miller and her husband Andy of Milton, DE, and Cheryl Roscoe of Butler; cherished grandmother of Michele Aldridge and her husband Chris of Salisbury, NC, Michael Basile and his wife Barbara of Bethel, CT, the late Jennifer Dey (d. 2006) , the late Jason Bardi (d. 2022), Heather Muckelston and Keith Hestermann of Forked River, NJ, Bryan Miller and his wife Bonnielee of Anchorage, AK, Christopher Miller and his wife Nicole of Chester, NJ, Danielle Roscoe of Butler, NJ, Nicole Beek and her late husband Robert (d. 2022) of Bloomingdale, NJ, Tiffany Troup and her husband Mike of Bloomingdale, NJ, her sister the late Loretta Legre Goguen (d. 1993) and her brother the late Henry Thibault (d. 2005). She was dearly loved by twenty-one great grandchildren: Amber, Krista, Cameron, Thomas, Ana, Liam, Gabrielle, Benjamin, Teagan, Briar, Logan, Hayden, Hudson, Paisley, Hunter, Skyler, Ryleigh, Willow, Cedar, Charlotte, and Koda. One great-great-grandson: Luke.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations would be greatly appreciated. Evelyn truly enjoyed the time she spent, and the friends she made, at Shepherd's Haven Social Adult Day Center in Pompton Lakes, and your memorial donations would be very meaningful here. You can visit their website at www.shepherdshavennj.org, or mail your donation to: Shepherd's Haven, 420 Ramapo Avenue, Pompton Lakes, NJ 07442
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