Bertha Y. (Chandler) Boucher, 78, of Fairhaven died Sunday November 20, 2011 at St. Luke's Hospital after a courageous fourteen month battle with acute myeloid leukemia. She was the wife of the late Joseph A. "Ziggy" Boucher.
Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Robert A. and Lydia (Richard) Chandler, she lived in Fairhaven since 1962.
Mrs. Boucher was a communicant of St. Joseph's Church.
Her favorite times were spent with her loving family having dinner and watching a movie or "Dexter." She was an avid cultivator and gardener of calla lilies and as a result these lilies are now growing throughout the world. She and her husband Ziggy loved taking day trips as often as possible. She was a "yard sale queen" who enjoyed her Saturdays with her longtime friend of fifty years, Carol Aresenault. She enjoyed making Christmas cookies for everyone.
She was a member of the French Culture Club of Acushnet.
Survivors include two daughters, Diane Sanders-Epps and her husband Joseph of New Bedford and Janice Ann Lefebvre and her husband Roger of Wareham; a son, Norman Boucher of Richmond, VA; two sisters, Florence Carbonneau of Vista, CA and Rita Lavoie of Tiverton, RI; her very special grandchildren, Jeffrey Sanders and his wife Jennifer of Fairhaven and Richard Sanders and his wife Erika of Taunton; her sister-in-law, Mary Chandler of New Bedford; and several nieces, nephews and extended family, including Joseph Epps Jr. and Savannah Epps of Buzzards Bay, Wayne Farnsworth of Coral Springs, FL, and Akihiro and Keiko Sugimoto of Yaizu, Japan.
She was the sister of the late Euclide Chandler.
Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 9 AM at St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery. Visiting hours Friday from 2-4 and 6-9 PM at the Saunders-Dwyer Mattapoisett Home For Funerals, 50 County Rd., Route 6, Mattapoisett. In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Cross Development Office, 377 Island Pond Rd., Manchester, NH 03109-4811, or The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 9 Erie Drive Suite 101, Natick, MA 01760. For directions and guestbook, please visit www.saundersdwyer.com.