ST. FRANCIS – Charlene Jandreau Walker, died peacefully Nov. 29, 2013, at a Fort Kent health care facility. She was born July 3, 1937, in St. Francis, the daughter of Josephel and Alphena (Thibodeau) Jandreau. She was the third child of four children.
Charlene’s father died of TB in 1952 at the age of 39. Her mother died October 1998 at the age of 87. Charlene married the love of her life in 1954 at the age of 16, for 53 years. Her husband Morris died in March of 2007 at the age of 77. She is survived by two sisters, Josephine and Omer Pelletier of Connecticut, and Barbara and George Baker of Ashland; her brother, Robert and Diane Jandreau of Fort Kent; one sister-in-law, Patricia Nadeau; one aunt, Marie Jandreau; and by many special nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Charlene worked at Princess Kent as a seamstress for many years and later for Aroostook Home Health as a CNA for several years. She will be remembered as the slipper lady and the lap robe lady, having made hundreds of pairs of slippers and giving them all away, and over 80 lap robes to nursing homes and people alone in their homes.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, at St. Charles Catholic Church, St. Francis. Spring burial will be held May 16, 2014, at St. Francis Cemetery. Services are being conducted by Daigle Funeral Home, Fort Kent. Those who wish to donate in her memory may do so to the American Heart Association, 51 US Route 1, Suite M, Scarborough, ME 04074.
Charlene Jandreau Walker
