Bertha E. Contois

Pawtucket – Bertha E. (Lemieux) Contois, 98, passed away on Thursday, August 1, 2019. She was the wife of the late Theodore “Teddy” A. Contois.  Born in Pawtucket, she was the daughter of the late Alfred and Valeda (Benoit) Lemieux. Mrs. Contois worked as a braider tender at the former Millers, Pawtucket, before retiring in 1982.  She was a lifelong member of St. Joseph Church, Pawtucket, where she served as a Eucharistic Minister and taught CCD for over fifteen years.  Bertha volunteered for the Blue Army in New Jersey and made thousands of rosaries for the Missions over the course of fifty years.  She is survived by two daughters, Alice D. Graff and her husband, Alden and Lucille R. Maloney and her husband, Michael, all of Celebration, FL; two sons, Ernest R. Contois and his wife, Lynne, of Lampster, NH and Leon L. Contois and his wife, Debra, of Warwick; ten grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren and her dear friends, Alice MacKenzie of Warwick and Peg Foster of...