Marie Lea (Leger) Girouard (1900 - 1973)

Born 3 Jun 1900 in Haute Aboujagane, Westmorland, New Brunswick

Ancestors

Wife of Jean-Arthur Girouard — married 20 Oct 1924 in St Joseph, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1973 at age 72 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA

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Lea's parents: Onesime Leger and Emilienne Marie Arsenault were married on 24 November 1896 in Haute Aboujagane, Westmorland, New Brunswick. Emilienne Marie Arsenault (daughter of Vital Arsenault and Osithe Leger) was born on 11 August 1877 in Haute Aboujagane, Westmorland, New Brunswick. Emilienne was baptized on 12 August 1877 in Barachois, Westmorland, New Brunswick (St Henri Church). She died before 1920 in Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick.

NB Archives spell Surname Arseneau

Onesime and Emilienne Marie (Arsenault) Leger had the following children:

i. Medley Joseph LEGER. ii. Lea Marie "Leah" LEGER. iii. Joseph Leandre LEGER. iv. Marie Hermance LEGER. v. Joseph Henri Dydas "Didace" LEGER. vi. Joseph Napoleon Arthur LEGER.

After Leah's mother Emilienne died, Onesime Leger and Genevieve Allain were married on 18 May 1920 in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick (Notre Dame de l'Assomption Cathedral).

Genevieve Allain (daughter of Hypolite Allain and Marguerite Fougere) was born on 10 May 1877 in Cocagne, Kent, New Brunswick. She died on 18 September 1956 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She was buried in the St. Joseph Cemetery, Fitchburg.

Onesime Leger and Genevieve Allain had the following children:

i. Florence Marie LEGER.

from Doris Girouard DeStadio (daughter of Lea):

I was born Mary Doris on September 26, 1935.

Mary Rita (Girouard) Gale was born on February 18, 1932 and died April 4, 2012.

Mary Alice (Girouard) was born on December 28, 1930 and died on June 26, 1987.

Anna Marie Janet was born on September 8, 1942 and died on July 26, 2009.

Marie Theresa was born on August 24,1934,and died on January 29, 2005 Clovis (Tex) was born April 5, 1925, and died December 29, 2012.

Obituary from the Fitchburg Sentinel, February 5, 1973:

MRS. ARTHUR GIROUARD

Mrs. M.Lea (Leger) Girouard, 72, of 1155 Westminster Hill Road, a resident of this city for the past 58 years died Sunday February 4, 1973 at Burbank Hospital.

A native of Haute Aboujagane, New Brunswick, Canada, she was the daughter of Onesime and Emilienne (Arsenault) Leger and was the wife of Arthur J. Girouard.

Besides her husband, she leaves her daughters Alice, wife of Eugene Lampula of Ashby; Theresa, wife of Charles Gilliland of Jackson, Michigan; Doris, wife of Joseph DeStadio of Fitchburg; Janet, wife of Paul Shea of Fitchburg; Rita, wife of Gene Gale of Ashburnham; a son, Clovis "Tex" Girouard, husband of Victoria (Gionet) of Fitchburg; twenty-two grandchildren; a stepbrother, Leon Goguen of Fitchburg; three brothers, Leandre Leger of North Carolina, Henry and Arthur Leger, both of Fitchburg; a sister, Hermance Caron of Greenville, New Hampshire; a half-sister, Florence Leblanc of Fitchburg; five stepsisters, Mrs. Delia Leblanc, Mrs. Elsie Jacques, Mrs. Adeline Beauregard, Mrs. Mabel McInerney and Mrs. Alexina Needham, all of Fitchburg.