Yvonne Ruth Boucher

Yvonne Ruth (LeCamp) Boucher, 91, died June 29 at the Fisher Home in Amherst.
Born September 22, 1929, in Upper Silesia, Germany, she fled with her family to Belgium in 1939, and then to Aix-en-Provence in southern France, where she lived the rest of the war. Emigrating to the US in 1947, she settled with her family in New York City.
An avid walker, she met her husband, F. Robert “Bob” Boucher, on a hike in 1952. They married in June 1953 and lived in New Jersey, before moving to Northampton in 1956.
A graduate of the Evening Division of Maurice Evans High School in New York City in 1954, she began her college studies twelve years later. After four years at Holyoke Community College, she transferred to Smith College, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors in French in 1972. She earned her doctorate in French at UMass in 1984. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.
She taught in Northampton public schools, most notably JFK, for thirty-five years.
She was both a Brownie and Girl Scout leader, and a long-time member of the Pioneer Valley Section of the Green Mountain Club, the League of Women Voters, and the Orchid Society. She also belonged to the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence.
Her husband having died in 2003 after 49 years of marriage, she leaves four children, Nancy E. Catania of Vero Beach, Florida, Patricia A. Rathay of Montgomery, Wayne A. Boucher of Cambridge, UK, and Andrew F. Boucher, of Paris, France, seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
A brother, Marcel LeCamp, died earlier.
The funeral will be Saturday, July 17th at 10am at Ahearn Funeral Home, 783 Bridge Road, Northampton. Burial will follow the service at Spring Grove Cemetery, Section G, 320 N. Maple Street, Florence. MA.
Visitation will precede the service from 8:30-10:00 at the funeral home.
Memorial gifts may be made to Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity or Friends of Forbes Library.
Ahearn Funeral Home
(413)587-0044