Joan Beverley Boudreau

(Daily Record)

JOAN BEVERLEY BOUDREAU
AGE: 79
FORMERLY OF MORRIS PLAINS AND CHESTER
Joan Beverley Boudreau passed away on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 after a long illness. She was 79. Born in South Portland, Maine and raised in the Morristown area, she lived in Morris Plains and Chester before moving to Venice, Florida. She worked as a telephone operator for New Jersey Bell before starting her family. Joan, an accomplished artist and singer, grew up singing in a variety of local shows and was voted as most artistic at Morristown High School in 1948. As an adult, she sang with the Masterwork choir in New York City. A devout Catholic, she loved leading the congregation in song as cantor during Mass. Joan dedicated most of her life to Christian stewardship. Her main outreaches were teaching Sunday school at Saint Virgil's Church in Morris Plains and Saint Lawrence Church in Chester and Legion of Mary evangelism, she finished her teaching career as the Director of Religious Education at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Venice, FL. She also would visit the sick at local nursing homes as a Eucharistic minister. Joanie's gentle, loving way made her a friend to all she met. She was quick to invite you into her life. She often opened up her heart, her means and her home to those in physical, economic or spiritual need. She enjoyed spending her summers with family and friends at Lake Hopatcong on Raccoon Island.
Joan was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Frederick; and 5 children, Veronique, John, Suzanne, and her husband Mark Barisonek, Beverly and her husband Frank deSaules, James and his wife Kristina. Joan had 9 grandchildren, Kirsten, Jeana, Danny, Adam, Michela, John, Alyssa, Rik and Mark. She is also survived by a brother, Philip Webb and his wife Sandy; sister-in-laws, Veronica Betty Whittemore, Carol Boudreau; and several nieces and nephews and their families.
Visitation Tuesday, November 23, from 2 to 4 PM and 7 to 9 PM at the Dangler Funeral Home, 600 Speedwell Ave., Morris Plains. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday, November 24, at 10:30 am at St. Virgil's Church. Interment to follow at the Holy Rood Cemetery.