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- The Burlington Free Press, April 23, 2012
Beatrice McNall Bessette RN (Picture included)
BEATRICE MCNALL BESSETTE RN ST. ALBANS - Beatrice McNall Bessette RN, 98, died peacefully Saturday, April 21, 2012, in the Franklin County Rehabilitation Center in St. Albans. Beatrice was born Feb. 14, 1914, in Essex, the daughter of the late Ralph and Maude Wilkes McNall. She graduated from Bellows Free Academy Fairfax in 1933. She studied nursing at the St. Albans Hospital School of Nursing and graduated as a registered nurse in 1936. On July 11, 1938, she married Harold Bessette in St. Luke's Catholic Church in Fairfax. She resumed her nursing career at Kerb's Memorial Hospital, now Northwest Medical Center, in St. Albans. She later worked at the Holiday House in St. Albans until 1970, when she moved to Enfield, Conn., to live with her daughter, Lynette. While in Connecticut, she worked at the Parkway Pavilion, an Enfield nursing facility. A person who loved being outdoors, Beatrice loved gardening and her roses. She enjoyed crafts and will be missed by her pets, especially Choo-Choo. She is survived by her children, Lynette Royer and husband, Roger, of St. Albans, James Bessette and wife, Rebecca, of St. Albans, and Donald Bessette and wife, Frances, of Highgate Center; grandchildren, David and Jeannine, Sara Bessette, Debra and husband, Jeff Sanders, Lori and husband, Andrew Deering, Brian and wife, Heather, Scott and wife, Elizabeth, Marc and wife, Carrie, Tammy Royer and fiance, Michael, and Kimberly Hawkins; greatgrandchildren, Beatrice and Mary Hawkins, Anthony and Eric Bessette, Ashley, Matthew, Kaitlyn, Emma, Bethany and Timothy Sanders, McKinley and Demetrius Deering, Ryan and Brendan Bessette, Brooke and Bradley Bessette, Christopher, Abigail, Nicholas and Victoria Bessette; sister-inlaw, Rita Bessette; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Harold in 1960; and her brother, Raymond McNall in 2001. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at 11 a.m. in Holy Angels Catholic Church on Lake Street in St. Albans. Burial will follow in St. Luke's Cemetery in Fairfax. Visiting hours will be held on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Minor Funeral Home, Route 7 in Milton. Online condolences may be made at www.minorfh.com <http://www.minorfh.com/>. Memorial contributions may be made to Northern Greyhound Adoptions, 999 Fairfax Road, Route 104, St. Albans, VT 05478, or to the Franklin County Rehabilitation Center, 110 Fairfax Road, St. Albans, VT 05478.
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1914 - 2012 (98 years)