- Date Of Birth: January 22, 1925
- Date Of Death: July 22, 2015
- State: Massachusetts
HAVERHILL – Mrs. Mary E. (Sullivan) Letourneau, a resident of Haverhill, and beloved wife of Richard E. Letourneau Sr., passed away at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill on Wednesday morning, July 22, 2015. She was 90 years old.
Mrs. Letourneau is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 67 years Richard Letourneau Sr., a son, Richard E. Letourneau Jr. and his wife Susan, and a daughter Elizabeth Letourneau. She was predeceased by her son Lawrence Letourneau in 1990. Mrs. Letourneau left a grand legacy including 5 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. “Gram” will be sorely missed by all of them.
Mrs. Letourneau was born in Haverhill, MA in 1925 to impoverished Irish immigrant parents. Through the force of her own abundant and determined will she fought her way out of poverty, culminating with graduating from Salem State College in 1947. She married her husband, Richard, in 1948. In 1950 she and Richard began their family.
Mrs. Letourneau had a lifelong passion for teaching.
