Rena R. Pelletier

BERLIN - Rena R. Pelletier, 81, of Berlin, died on Dec. 27, 2013, at the Coos County Nursing Home.

She was born in Madawaska, Maine, on July 12, 1932, the daughter of Donat and Cecile (Therriault) Labbe and was a lifelong resident of Berlin. She graduated from Notre Dame High School with the class of 1951, and from St. Louis School of Nursing. Rena has been employed by the St. Louis Hospital until 1973, James River Corporation until the late 1980s, and by Weeks Hospital in the late 1990s. She was active in the North Country Nurses Association for many years and enjoyed reading, knitting, summers at the camp at Akers Pond, blueberry picking and swimming.

Family includes her daughter Janet Pelletier of Berlin; sons Alan Pelletier of Nottingham and Randy Pelletier of Berlin; and her granddaughter, Mamie Perrault of Berlin. She was predeceased by her husband, Donald Pelletier, in 1986; her son Carl Pelletier in 1990, her son Patrick Pelletier in 2004, and a brother, Armand Labbe.

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services: A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday, Dec. 30, at 10 a.m. at St. Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish. Interment will be in the Mount Calvary Cemetery. Relatives and friends may call at the Bryant Funeral Home, 180 Hillside Ave., Berlin, Sunday evening from 2 to 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Breathe NH, 145 Hollis St., Unit C, Manchester, 03101, or the Alzheimer's Association, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA, 02472. For an online guestbook, go to www.bryantfuneralhome.net.