Ida Marie Belliveau Boudreau
Memramcook (Boudreau-Village), Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canadian, 1914 - 1998
Canadian, 1914 - 1998
| Death Place: | Moncton |
| Death County: | Westmorland County |
| Death Province: | New Brunswick |
| Death Country: | Canada |
| Biography: | Ida Marie Belliveau Boudreau was born in Memramcook (Boudreau Village), NB, on 29 June 1914 to Eva Young and Maxime Belliveau. She lived near the Petitcodiac River for almost her whole life. On the 21st of May 1935, she married Alfred Boudreau in Saint-Thomas de Memramcook Church. They had a family of eleven children, nine of whom lived to adulthood. She was widowed in December 1974. Mrs. Boudreau was a very organized woman; she wrote the date and recipient on every mat she made, and recorded every gift she received including when and from whom she had received it. In addition, she is described as an excellent puzzler. She grew her own vegetables, raised chickens and cows, sewed her family’s clothes, and made her own Christmas cards by cutting out pictures, flowers, and designs from magazines. For many years, she was also a midwife, assisting Dr Camille Gaudet. Sometimes, if the doctor did not arrive on time, she delivered the baby herself. A devout Roman Catholic, she was described by her children as a prayerful woman, with a particular devotion to Mère Marie-Léonie Paradis, one of three Canadian-born saints. Once retired, with her children grown up and out of the house, she didn’t have need for her farm animals anymore and stopped growing everything but one of her favourite herbs, summer savory, in her garden. She turned her attention to making quilts and hooked mats. In fact, upon discovering that John Glenn would be making the first American world orbit, she made and sent him a rug, with the inscription “John Glenn, first man in space.” Ida Marie Belliveau Boudreau died on September 3rd 1998, aged 84. |
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