Amherst, Madeleine Boisclair, died peacefully at the Center for Extended Care in Amherst on November 8^th, 2018.

Madeleine was born in Labret, Saskatchewan, Canada and moved to Montreal Canada as a child and then to Attleboro, Massachusetts where she married her husband of almost 50 years Denis Boisclair, who predeceased her in 2008. She was a mother of two boys and worked at home as a Dresden painter until moving to Manchester, NH in 1970 where she studied and attained her GED. She ran a crafts cart at the Catholic Medical Center and made hundreds of decorations for the annual St. Catherine’s Christmas fair.  She took up oil painting in her 60’s and painted dozens of amazing and cherished portraits of family members as well as wonderful landscape paintings.

She leaves her two sons Michael and Daniel, there wives Suzy and Karoline.  She is also survived by five grandchildren Liana, Benjamin, Christine, Michael and Suzy and many nieces and nephews in Ma, Fl, Tn and Wa, as well as her good friend Virginia McDeed in California.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday November 16, 2018 at 11:00am at St. Brigid’s Church, Amherst, with a burial following in St. Brigid’s cemetery, Hadley.  A calling hour will precede the service from 9:30-10:30 at the Douglass Funeral Service, Amherst.