Pauline Bissonnette's Obituary
Mrs. Pauline Bissonnette (Nanny), 95, of Salisbury died peacefully on Friday, December 23 at Lawrence General Hospital after a brief illness. She was surrounded by her daughters and other family members.
Pauline was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1927, daughter of Hormidas and Maria Hamel, the youngest of 13 children. She attended St. Anne’s School in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School.
She married Patrick Bissonnette in 1947 and they were married for 70 years before Pat died in 2018. The raised their family in Lawrence and were members of Sacred Heart Parish.
Since 1977 Pauline spent her winters in Ft. Myers Beach and Jupiter, FL, and summers in Salisbury Beach where she is a member of Star of the Sea Parish. She loved being surrounded by family at the beach house, shopping with her girls, and her nightly martini.
She is survived by her four daughters – Carol Poor and her husband, Charles of Tuftonboro, N.H. and Jupiter, Florida; Gail Steele and her husband, Joseph of Westminster; Lynne Snow and her husband, Donald of Londonderry, NH; and Kim Baltier and her husband Mark of Salem, N. H. and Delray Beach, Florida. She has eight grandchildren, Jeff Poor, Chris Poor, Greg Poor, Hillary Minicucci, Taylor Hodge, Patrick Snow, Kurt Baltier and Kendra Goodnow; and 12 great-grandchildren, Ryan Poor, Kaitlyn Poor, Lauren Poor, Charlie Poor, Giselle Poor, Cameron Poor, Tanner Poor, Cole Minicucci, Quinn Minicucci, Chase Minicucci, Evelynne Hodge, and Nolan Hodge.
Friends and family are cordially invited to attend visitation for Pauline on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, from 4PM to 7PM at the Kenneth H. Pollard Funeral Home, 233 Lawrence St., Methuen. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, December 29, 2022, at 10AM at St. Theresa’s Church, 22 Plymouth Street, Methuen, MA 01844. Interment to follow at St. Mary-Immaculate Conception Cemetery, 29 Barker Street in Lawrence, MA. For directions and online guestbook, please visit the funeral home website, www.pollardfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Pauline’s memory to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital at www.stjude.org, or The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) at www.researchautism.org , or Els for Autism at www.elsforautism.org, or Gorlin Syndrome Alliance at www.gorlinsyndrome.org The Kenneth H. Pollard Funeral Home is honored to serve the Bissonnette Family.
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