Mary D. Rousseau, 81, Westport

Posted 6/5/19

Mary D. (Medeiros) Rousseau, 81, of Westport, passed away on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, at Hope Hospice Philip Hulitar Center. She was the wife of the late Henri J. Rousseau.

Mrs. Rousseau was born …

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Mary D. Rousseau, 81, Westport

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Mary D. (Medeiros) Rousseau, 81, of Westport, passed away on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, at Hope Hospice Philip Hulitar Center. She was the wife of the late Henri J. Rousseau.

Mrs. Rousseau was born in Swansea, daughter of the late Manuel A. and Lena (Torres) Medeiros, and had resided in Westport for most of her life. Prior to her retirement in 1998, she worked as branch manager for the former Citizens-Union Savings Bank. She was a volunteer at the Westport Council on Aging and a communicant of St. John the Baptist Church, Westport.

Survivors include her two daughters, Beth A. Rousseau-Long and her husband Robert of Simpsonville, SC, and Kelli J. Vasconcelos and her husband Richard of Swansea; a sister, Natalie Lenon of Swansea; two grandchildren, Tori L. Maduro and Cameron H. Vasconcelos; a cousin, M. Helen Ferreira of Fall River; along with many nieces and nephews.

She was the sister of the late Evelyn Gonsalves.

Her memorial service, to which relatives and friends are invited, will be Saturday, June 8, at the Potter Funeral Home, 81 Reed Road, Westport, at 11 a.m.

Memorial visitation will be on Saturday at the funeral home from 9:30-11 a.m.,  prior to the service.

Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38101-9908.

To sign the online guestbook, please visit www.potterfuneralservice.com.

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