Pauline Marie Rudzinski

1925 - 2011

LACONIA - Pauline Marie Rudzinski, 86, of Elm Street died July 5, 2011, at St. Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Laconia with her family at her side.

Mrs. Rudzinski was born Feb. 10, 1925, in Franklin to Leda Fugere Hebert. Due to her mother's chronic illness, she went to live at St. Patrick Orphanage in Manchester at age 7. She was very happy there and made lifelong sister-like friends. She left the orphanage at 16 and returned to Laconia to live with her sister, Frances.

She worked for a time as a nanny and housekeeper for the Clyde Cantin family. She worked at Laconia Shoe Co. for a brief time.

She enjoyed playing cards, trips to Las Vegas, bingo, puzzles, gardening, crocheting, tatting, the ocean, sitting on her back deck and most of all family gatherings and being a mom, gram and nani.

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IN HER LIFE: She was a caring and sharing person who sent approximately 200 Christmas cards with personal messages to family and friends each year and receiving as many. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish, a lifelong member of the Catholic Daughters of America and Emblem Club 80 of Laconia.

In 1943, she met the love of her life, William "Bill" Rudzinski, Jr. and they married in 1945. She worked with her husband in his vending machine business until he retired in 1996. People may remember her from Bill's Playland on the Boardwalk at Weirs Beach, working alongside her husband for 33 years (a family business). She spent the first 25 years of her marriage on the lake on Union Avenue where she and her husband raised their five children. She was a great mom and precious human being and loved dearly by most who met her.

She will be sadly missed but never forgotten by her very devoted family.

She leaves behind her beloved husband, Vincent William "Bill" Rudzinski Jr., of 66 years; daughters Sylvia Batchelder of Lakeport, Leda Rudzinski of Gilford, Stacia Larivee of Gilford, Paula DuBois and her husband, Bert, of Gilford; daughterin- law, Veronica Rudzinski, of Belmont; granddaughters Christina Batchelder, Danielle Minery, Pauline Doucette and her husband, Timothy, and Brandi DeGroot and her husband, Bill; grandsons, Jack Batchelder and his wife, Shelly, Victor Larivee Jr. and his wife, Jill, Vincent Rudzinski IV and Damien Rudzinski and his wife, Elizabeth; great-granddaughters Olivia Doucette, Autumn Minery, Samantha Batchelder and Cordelia Larivee-Ambrose; great grandsons River Minery, Nathan Batchelder, Matthew Doucette, Colby Batchelder and William Rudzinski; her brother, Raymond Foster, and his wife, Claire, of Vermont, and sister, Ruth Cormier, of Laconia and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her son, Vincent "Bud" Rudzinski III, in 2010, grandson, Rodney Colby, in 1996, son-in-law, Edward Batchelder in 2003, her sisters, Helen Labrie, Frances Binette, Lillian Ducharme and Rita Barton and brothers, Leon Foster and Eddy Hebert.

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SERVICES: Calling hours are Friday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant St., Laconia.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Saturday at noon at St.

Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church St., Laconia.

Burial will follow in Bayside Cemetery, Laconia.

For more information, go to wilkinsonbeane.com.