ST. JOHN PLANTATION Alma (Laverdiere) Soucy, 81, died Jan. 28, 2008, at a Fort Kent health care facility. She was born Aug. 22, 1926, in Van Buren, the daughter of Joseph and Amelia (Levesque) Laverdiere. Alma was a member of Ladies of St. Ann of St. John. She was predeceased by her husband, Wilfred Soucy; two sons, Kenneth and Michael Soucy; and one sister, Arlene Bowley. She is survived by her children, Mary Anne Heinz and her husband, Al, of Sandown, N.H., Thelma Pelletier of St. Francis, Clayton Soucy and his wife, Anna, and Roger Soucy and his wife, Christine, both of St. John Plantation, Cindy Soucy of Hampstead, N.H., and Tammy Nadeau and her husband, Gerard, of Caribou; a nephew, raised as a son, Donald Laverdiere and his wife, Crystal, of St. Francis; a grandson, raised as a son, Sean Soucy and his wife, Lisa, of Epping, N.H.; three sisters, Ber-nadette Cormier and Rita Jambard, both of Van Buren, and Cecile Klanski of South Carolina; and one brother, Roland Laverdiere of Van Buren. Friends may call at Daigle & Nadeau Funeral Home, Fort Kent, 9 a.m. Friday until time of departure for St. John. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at St. John Catholic Church, St. John. Committal services in the spring will be held May 14, at St. John Catholic Cemetery.


