Marie K. Lessard

GRANITEVILLE- Marie Lessard of Graniteville, Vermont, passed from this life on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, after many years of combating illness that kept her bedridden at home and finally in nursing home care at Barre Gardens. Marie Kathleen White was born in Barre, Vermont, on April 18, 1950, and attended Mathewson School and Spaulding High School, graduating in the class of 1968.  She completed her nurse's training at Thompson School of Nursing in Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1969, and spent the next twenty plus years as a licensed practical nurse at Central Vermont Hospital, in private duty and finally as a charge nurse at Rowan Court Nursing Home. Marie married James Lessard of Graniteville, Vt. in 1971 and they made their home first in Barre, then in Graniteville for their almost 50 years of marriage.  Marie and James had one son, Jamie Lessard, of Barre City. Besides her husband and son, Marie leaves behind her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Richard and Margaret Lessard of Berlin; her niece and...