Obituary for Sr. Marie K. Rouleau
PUTNAM - Sister Marie K. Rouleau, 86, with the Daughters of the Holy Spirit, formerly known in religion as Sister Denis de la Croix, died Saturday in the Holy Spirit Provincial House, 72
Church St.
She leaves many nephews and nieces; grandnephews and grandnieces. She was born in St: Chrysostom, Quebec, daughter of Denis and Celeda (Rousseau Rouleau).
Sister Rouleau entered the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in 1924 and professed her final vows in 1927 at the Motherhouse in St. Brieuc, France. She was a longtime elementary school teacher. She taught in Concarneau, -France, Swanton, Vt., and Chicopee. After that, she was a teacher and diocesan supervisor in Hartford and a teacher in Burlington, Vt. Sister Rouleau was later principal of St. Mary's School in Putnam and St. James School in Davis, Calif. She later taught in Quebec. After that, she was a librarian in Plainfield, Chicopee and Jewett City. She retired to the Provincial House here last year.
The funeral will be held Wednesday, with a Mass at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit Provincial House, 72 Church St. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Calling hours at the provincial house chapel 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Gilman Funeral Home, 104 Church St., is directing arrangements.