Marie Theresa Genest
...bookkeeper at Jamppa Mfg. in Lowell; 81
DRACUT - Marie Theresa (Bellefeuille) Genest, age 81, died peacefully on December 26, at the Fairhaven Nursing Care Center, after a long period of declining health. She was the loving wife of Laurent Genest, who died on June 16, 1999.
Mrs. Genest was born in Lowell, on March 30, 1926, one of seven children of Thomas H. and Elizabeth (Bassett) Bellefeuille. She was raised in Lowell and attended Lowell schools. She worked as a bookkeeper for Jamppa Manufacturing company in Lowell, which produced White Stag shirts. She moved to Clearwater Florida, and worked in the accounting department for Pixie Playmates company, a manufacturer of children's clothing in Largo, Florida. Following the death of her husband, she returned to the Lowell area, where she lived with her brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Patricia (Znoj) Bellefeuille in Dracut. She had been in residence at Fairhaven for the past six years.
Besides her brother Tom and his wife Pat, she is survived by two sisters and brothers-in-law, Louise and Henry Boisvert of Cape Coral, FL, Margaret and Theodore Reed of Largo, FL; and many nieces and nephews, and grand nieces and nephews.
She was also sister of the late Elizabeth "Betty" Pagach, Rita Willett, and Robert Bellefeuille.
At her request all services will be private. Interment of her cremated earthly remains will be with her husband in the Bay Pines Veterans Administration National Cemetery in Florida.