Othilia Boutin

Othilia Louise Boutin, age 89, of Lakewood, formerly a fifty-four-year resident of Clifton, passed at home on Sunday, December 15, 2019.

Othilia, affectionately known as Tillie, was born to Jacob and Victoria Kaplon in Brooklyn, New York.  She was raised in Brooklyn and went to high school in Enfield Connecticut with intentions of becoming a nun. That all changed when some mutual friends introduced her to Raymond Boutin. They dated for a while and as fate would have it, they fell in love. They were married on April 15, 1950 at Our Lady of Consolation RC Church in Brooklyn where they would be parishioners for many years to come. After getting married, Raymond and Othilia stayed in Brooklyn and welcomed the birth of their two children, Dianne and Raymond III.  In 1964 when the children were about ten and thirteen years old, they moved to the city of Clifton.  They would call Clifton their home for the rest of their lives.  When they moved to Clifton, they became parishioners of Sacred Heart Church where they were also very active in CCD and the Catholic Youth Organization. While at Sacred Heart Church in Clifton she would take over and donate her time to help when the priests’ housekeeper and/or cook would go away. Othilia and Raymond traveled extensively throughout their years together having been all over the United States mostly by car. In their later years they enjoyed going to the Garden State Plaza together to simply people watch. They had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-nine years before Raymond’s passing on January 3rd, 2019.

Othilia will be remembered as a sweet, caring person who found great comfort and pride at seeing her family get together. Although she was sweet and caring, if pushed, her Brooklyn would come out it a big way.  She was one of twelve children and just loved to see her brothers and sisters all together at family gatherings.  She was the youngest and sadly through the years witnessed the passing of all.

She was the loving wife of the late Raymond Boutin Jr. (d.1/15/2019); loving mother of Dianne Bursey of Wayne and Raymond Boutin and his wife Ellen of Brick; she was the cherished grandmother of Scott Bursey, Bryan Boutin, Ashley Boutin, and the late Keith Bursey (d.2014) and great grandmother of Jaxon and Brooks Bursey.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Serenity Hospice of NJ, 54 Georgetown Road, Bordentown, NJ 08505 would be greatly appreciated.