Agnes A. Boucher

Agnes Ann (LeClerc) Boucher, 83, Hill's Beach, Biddeford passed away peacefully on April 28, 2025. She was born on March 4, 1942 to Roland and Bertha (Gobiel) LeClerc in Biddeford,ME.
After attending Catholic Schools and graduting from St. Joseph's HS in 1960, Ann married the love of her life Jean-Paul (JP) Boucher on July 4, 1963 at St. Andre's church in Biddeford. Shortly after their marriage, they would move to Northern Maine where they soon started a family and JP would begin a career in teaching. Their son Dominic was born July 3, 1964, in Presque Isle, ME where Ann would laughingly say "he was born between two potato fields". The following year on September 4,1965 they welcomed their baby girl Ruth Ann. They would have a third child Jean-Pierre born June 1966, but passed shortly after birth.
Ann and JP bought their first home in Livermore Fall's where they planned to raise their family while JP taught at Livermore Fall's HS. In 1968, after a critical motor vehicle accident involving JP's parents, Jean Paul and Margurite (Bourgeault) Boucher and brother Michael, they moved back to Hill's Beach where this would become their forever home and where they built many fond memories including kids playing on the beach, digging clams, fishing and taking boating trips out to the island for camping adventures with her sisters family, on the their boat they named "4 B's".
Ann was a stay at home mom until her children were middle school age, when she started working for Sears at the Maine Mall. She started as a catalog switchboard operator and after her position was eliminated, she moved into the office where she would often be called to the store floor to help the sales team translate for French speaking customers visiting from Canada. Ann worked for over 25 years at Sears before retiring. She then took a job at the University of New England (UNE) working for several years as a switchboard operator, before retiring completely. Ann loved the fact she could walk to work on the paths behind her home.
Ann came from a family of speed skaters. She could definitely skate on long blades, but never became a racer herself. She did however become a hockey mom. She loved days of travel hockey with Dominic and a bunch of the Hill's Beach boys, who fondly referred to her as "Mrs. B". They would load the station wagon with hockey bags and then toss Ruth Ann on top of the pile and head to the ice arena.
She enjoyed reading, "it has to be a paper book" she loved the feel of paper in her hands. She also enjoyed knitting, sewing (especially making doll clothes), quilting, and various craft projects with Ruth Ann. She was particularly fond of projects intended as Christmas gifts. Ann became a collector of Santa Clauses and loved decorating her home for the Christmas seasons. When decorating got to be too much for her she would gladly tell Ruth Ann, "if you need any decorations you know where to come". For the years to follow Ruth Ann would take her mother's Santa ornaments and purchased a special tree to display those ornaments in her home for mother to see when she spent Christmas there with her family.
Ann was also a great cook. She enjoyed making Pork pies, homemade spaghetti sauce, and stuffed mushrooms were just a few items on the extensive menu. She would pass that skill on to Ruth Ann over the years but, was quick to claim the credit. Whenever she heard someone say "Ruth Ann is a good cook" she would respond "well she had a good teacher". In the later years she didn't cook as much, but when asked what she wanted to eat, she would often say "I am not a fussy eater, so you pick, I pay".
During JP's tenure teaching French at Biddeford HS they would go on a trip to Paris with the school. She also enjoyed family trips to Quebec and Montreal. In later years she and JP would continue to go 2 or 3 times a year until his declining health.
After JP's passing in September of 2019, Ann's only wishes were to remain home for as long as she could with her puppy girl, Shamrock, and to continue to sit on her sun porch/deck while enjoying the river/ocean view and watch the boats pass by. While asking, "why do people think it is so boring here?" Tom would always reply, "I don't get it either Ma". With the help of her family she would live out her wishes until her passing.
Ann was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband JP, two sons Dominic and Jean-Pierre, sister Claudette and husband Fern LaBranche, and godchild Kevin LaBranche. She is survived by her daughter Ruth Ann and husband Thomas "Tom" Grondin of Sanford, Maine, grandchildren Alexander "Alex" Grondin (her birth date twin) of Sanford, ME, Aimee (Grondin) Onessimo and her husband Andrew "Andy" of West Newfield, Maine, great-grandson Wyatt Onessimo, brothers Daniel (Michelle) LeClerc of Biddeford, Marc (Lynn) Leclerc of Arundel Maine and several nieces and nephews.
Ann received hospice care that can only be described as nothing short of outstanding from her care team at Affinity Hospice & Palliative Care and asks in lieu of flowers please consider making a donation in Agnes Ann Boucher's name to: Affinity Health & Continuum Care Hospice Foundation at affinityhealthmanagement.com/donation.
A gathering of family and friends to celebrate Ann's life will be held at Hope Memorial Chapel on Friday May 16,2025 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.