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Mae
Champagne, 89
Snowhill,
N.C. - Mae Champagne, 89, formerly of Brooks,
died on November 26, 2002.
Funeral
services will be held on December 28 at the Holy
Spirit Catholic Church in Snowhill, N.C. A memorial
service will also be held in Las Vegas, Nev. on May
2, 2003 at St. Bridget Catholic Church, where her
ashes will be put into the cript at Palm
Mortuary.
Mae was
born on September 25, 1919, the daughter of Louis
Perrault and Edith Gaudette, on a farm near Brooks.
She married Wallace Champagne on November 26, 1930.
She spent many years working as a cook and chef for
the public school system in Brooks. Later, she
moved to Grand Forks, N.D., where she worked as a
chef. She moved to Las Vegas, Nev., where she
worked for more than 25 years as a chef until her
retirement. She has lived with her son, Bernard in
Snowhill, N.C. for the past six years.
Mae loved
her garden and growing her own vegetables and
flowers.
Survivors
include six children, Euella (Tony) Galassa of
Florence, Ore., Doreen (Lory) Bryant of Moreno
Valley, Calif., Bernard (Hilda Grace Moore) of
Snowhill, N.C., Bonita (Lawrence) Langer of Hager
City, Wisc., Arnold Champagne of San Francisco,
Calif. and Elizabeth (Thomas) Yoder of Iowa Park,
Texas; 21 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren;
eight great great-grandchildren; and a sister,
Viola Mostad of Grand Forks, N.D.
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