HELEN-BOURGEOIS-Obituary

HELEN M. BOURGEOIS

Melrose, Massachusetts

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BOURGEOIS, Helen M. (Glowka) Of Melrose, March 20, 2012, age 90. Beacon Hill icon, of Helen's Leather, almost 50 years on Charles Street. Devoted wife of the late Edward Joseph Bourgeois Jr, & devoted mother of the late Edward Joseph Bourgeois III. She is survived by loving daughter Lise...

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Lise and Family, so very sorry to hear of the loss of Helen. She was such a unique spirit and will be missed.

Parting
"My life closed twice before its close:
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell."
- Emily Dickinson, Dickinson: Poems

May Helen's spirit, luminous and eternal, reach out to her loving family to comfort their loss. In their moment of sadness, may she lead them into the light. She was a...

Love you so much, Poppy! I hope to be as wonderful a woman as you were!
xoxo Ali