Maria Picard

Member Of French

American Club

Maria (Cadotte) Picard, 95, formerly of Norwalk and Bethel, died January 30 at Danbury Hospital. She was the widow of Conrad S. Picard.

She is survived by two daughters, Lucille Picard Peterson of Newtown and Muriel Picard Gross of Danbury; a son, Jerry Picard and his wife, Norma, of Norwalk; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a sister, Prescille Rheault of Canada. Besides her husband and parents she was predeceased by six brothers and sisters, formerly of Canada and Norwalk.

Mrs Picard was born in Ste Anne Du-Sault, Canada, December 15, 1911, daughter of Saul and Hortense (Houle) Cadotte. She was schooled in Canada and Maine and raised in Norwalk. She was a resident of Norwalk, then Sheffield, Mass., for 23 years before moving to Bethel in 1997. For the past five years she was a resident of Laurel Ridge Health Care Center in Ridgefield, where she was an avid bingo player. A homemaker all her life, she was a member of the French American Club in Norwalk.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St Mary’s Church, Bethel, Friday, February 2, at 10:30 am. Burial will be in St Mary’s Cemetery, Bethel.

The family was scheduled to receive friends at the Bethel Funeral Home, 215 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel, Thursday, February 1, from 2 to 4 pm and from 6 to 8 pm.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 200 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk CT 06854 or to the Dream Come True of Western Connecticut, PO Box 2415, Danbury CT 06813.

The Newtown Bee        February 2, 2007