ST. AGATHA – Daughter of Wisdom Sister Gabrielle Michaud, 87, died peacefully July 16, 2009, at a Frenchville nursing home. She was born Dec. 8, 1921, in St. Agathe, daughter of the late Donat E. Michaud and Amanda Chasse. She graduated from Notre Dame de la Sagesse High School in 1935, entered the Daughters of Wisdom in 1938, professed her vows in 1940 and took the religious name Sister Adrienne de l’Immaculee. Sister Gabrielle spent many years in the health care profession, ministering as a night supervisor at Maryview Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., 1945-1947, and as a physical therapist there, 1947-1948. She served as administrator of Holy Family, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1959-1960, and as a nurse and physical therapist at St. Charles Hospital, Port Jefferson, N.Y., 1960-1963. She studied at St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y., 1964-1965, and Boston University, Boston, 1966-1967. In 1967 she returned to St. Agathe, to serve as a nurse, 1968-1969. She then organized the physical therapy department at Northern Maine Medical Center, Fort Kent, 1970-1974. She later joined the faculty of l’Ecole de Formation Infirmiere d’Edmundston, New Brunswick, at Le College St. Louis, where she taught medical, surgical and psychiatric nursing, 1974-1988. Upon retirement Sister Gabrielle became a member of the Worship and Spirituality Committee and Social Justice and Peace Commission of Ste. Agathe Parish. For 20 years she assisted with the training of extraordinary ministers and altar servers and in visitation of the sick. She also assisted with medical transport, distribution of food baskets and the staffing of a thrift shop. Sister Gabrielle is survived by three brothers, Don and his wife, Mona, Robert, and Jean and his wife, Cecile, all of St. Agathe; four sisters, Angela Raymond and her husband, Omer, of Sarasota, Fla., Rose Dufour and her husband, Gerald, of Madawaska, Patricia Landry of Edmundston, New Brunswick, and Jean Crabtree of Berlin, N.H.; a sister-in-law, Florine Michaud of St. Agathe; many cousins, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents; by her brothers, Richard and his wife, Aline, Raymond and his wife, Bertha, and Jack; a sister, Anne Marie Malvey and her husband, Eddie; and a sister-in-law, Maxine. Friends and relatives may call 8:30 a.m. until the time of service Saturday at Michaud Funeral Home, St. Agatha. A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated 10 a.m. Saturday, July 18, at St. Agatha Catholic Church with the Rev. Phil Cyr officiating. Burial will be at St. Agatha Lower Cemetery. For those who desire, donations may be made to St. Agatha Historical Society, P.O. Box 237, St. Agatha, ME 04772 or Long Lake Public Library, P.O. Box 33, St. Agatha, ME 04772.
GABRIELLE MICHAUD
