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Note: Notes from her son, Frank:
The mother of Francis, Jr. and Yvonne was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children. She attended grade school to the eighth grade when she left to go to work. Her father, Napoleon, had left the family and his partnership with his brother Rudolphe and gone to France. The children were left with the responsibility of looking after their mother.
While she was working for the telephone company, she met Francis Cunningham an engineer with John A. Stevens Inc., in Lowell (MA), whom she married on February 02, 1921. After a honeymoon in Havana, they settled in at 155 Butman Road, Lowell. When Francis died in 1965 she moved to Tucson, Arizona taking a house near her daughter (June) and it was while she was there that she died, on January 04, 1974.
She lived in comparative luxury, unlike her brothers, none of whom went to college, and devoted herself to her husband and her children with common sense and a lively sense of fun.
Sad to say, her death came as a consequence of her addiction to alcohol. After a service in Tucson her body was flown to Lowell, MA where another service was held, conducted by her husbands cousin Frederic Lawrence, and she was buried in Lowell Cemetery next to her husband.
Yvonne is buried next to her husband Francis, in the Lowell Cemetery on Lawrence Street. Lot D-R-2, grave six.
Her ancestors information was provided by Lucien Bolduc. He married the daughter (Antoinette) of Rodolphe Ludgere Loupret. Rodolphe is the brother of Napoleon Joseph Loupret.
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