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Elizabeth "Betty" P. (Cronin) Tetrault
October 8, 1933 ~ January 31, 2017 (age 83) 83 Years Old Light a Candle
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Message from Lizzie
December 14, 2017 1:42 PM
I miss you every day Mom. Nothing is the same without you. Until we see each other again, please hug Jesus for me and have fun! You deserve it.
A candle was lit by Lizzie
on December 14, 2017 1:39 PM
A candle was lit by Boston Massachusetts.., Cape Cod
on April 20, 2017 2:05 PM
Recently heard our dear friend Betty is no longer here. Did not hear of her passing until April.
Will miss oil painting and ice cream with her at the Cape during summer vacation.
Janet, Mark and Tim O'Leary.
Recently heard our dear friend Betty is no longer here. Did not hear of her passing until April.
Will miss oil painting and ice cream with her at the Cape during summer vacation.
Janet, Mark and Tim O'Leary.
A candle was lit by Marcia, David, Andy, and Whitney Massaro
on February 6, 2017 7:17 AM
Message from David and Marcia her cape cod kids.
February 4, 2017 7:26 PM
No matter what, Betty could always make us laugh. She had so many great stories to tell. Betty loved the Cape. We could not have asked for a better friend or neighbor. We too will miss her chocolate pudding pies and chocolate chip cookies. She will live on in our memories and our hearts forever. Marcia and David Massaro, So. Yarmouth, Ma.
Message from Mary Oliver
February 20, 2017 1:28 PM
Auntie Betty spoke happily of you often. Loved the special food dishes from your culture that you shared with her.
Message from Mary I. Oliver
February 3, 2017 8:04 AM
To Auntie Betty;
Aunt would make chocolate chip cookies often on the weekends. We would each get our share (and the extras we would steal later from the cookie jar!!) and watch the old tv shows together in the den. She invited my Mom and I to visit every weekend.
Auntie and Uncle Ernie had 6 children. One 'little Ernie' passed away when young). I enjoyed growing up with my 5 cousins. 5 times the fun, adventures to share on Kimball St. in Brookfield; Sliding on the snow down the back hill, and with the neighbors down top to bottom of Kimball street. Many kids would come to or house to slide down that hill. Aunt and Mom, Ernie would slide too. A ramp over the stone wall at the bottom of the hill; the sled would fly over it into the air and down into the woods. Ice skating on the frog pond, picking cowslips in that pond in the summer, crossing it along the old fallen trees. .
I remember one winter it snowed about 3 feet. Then it left a 1... inch coat of ice on top. We spent days sliding on our bellies over the snow throughout the woods; the snow created many different size hills to slide over. You could see the many colored sparkles of the sunlight on the ice, snow. Aunt and I noticed this a few years back walking in Worcester at her daughters house; the snow was covered with colored sparkles; they changed colors as we walked. Auntie was a great artist; cartoons and paintings. She drew pictures of the Boston Red Sox and other athletes. The policemen (Gramps was a Mass State Cop) and others. Many paintings of Cape Cod. Our Hotel in South San Francisco, California kept one, its in the lobby!
Aunt had many flowers around the yards. She grew vegetables. I miss the taste of that natural food. Even the water on Kimball street was healthy. She loved her bird feeder attached to the kitchen window. She kept it full of seed. In the winter she filled it with bacon fat. Says it insulates the birds, animals fat cells... keeps them warm. Always a colorful bird at the kitchen window.
Cookouts in the handmade brick fireplace in the low yard. Laying on the blanket looking up at the stars. Toasting marshmallows. Catching lightening bugs. Bringing some in a jar with holes on top for air, and later when its late and dark; releasing them in the house and watching them shine their lights.
We caused a lot of mischief, seem to always be on our mind. It was FUN!! I never remember my Aunt, Uncle spanking any of the kids. Just grounded us in our room... if we caused too much trouble. (throwing dirt bombs at a car...) Possibly one of the first parents to use alternative 'kind' ways to discipline children. It worked; we grew up to be 'good'. That's a main goal in life; to grow, in the right direction, help others do the same. When our time comes we are admitted to a higher level of existence in heaven. I know Auntie made it and is having a blast. Probably in the back seat of a angels chariot with her twin sister doing that 'secret whispering and giggling' about something they find funny.
I do not have brothers and sisters. Thank you Auntie for being a strict Catholic and having a large family! My cousins; Mike, Tom, Shell, Liz and Raf are like brothers and sisters. Now there are many Grandchildren. So much fun growing up, always laughing. Many happy memories. I now see the Dads, Moms and new grannies, granpas passing it along.
During Aunties last months here going through radiation treatments she would call me or I call her. One of her grand kids recently mentioned how Auntie gave her advice, still being a Mom right to the end even though she was suffering. She did similar to me; I was ill for 6 months; She would give encouragement. Days before she went to hospital first time; when she was very weak, she still got me a card with ashes for ash Wednesday at the Catholic church. She thinks of others first.
Missing you so very much,
Love,
Cousin Mare
Aunt would make chocolate chip cookies often on the weekends. We would each get our share (and the extras we would steal later from the cookie jar!!) and watch the old tv shows together in the den. She invited my Mom and I to visit every weekend.
Auntie and Uncle Ernie had 6 children. One 'little Ernie' passed away when young). I enjoyed growing up with my 5 cousins. 5 times the fun, adventures to share on Kimball St. in Brookfield; Sliding on the snow down the back hill, and with the neighbors down top to bottom of Kimball street. Many kids would come to or house to slide down that hill. Aunt and Mom, Ernie would slide too. A ramp over the stone wall at the bottom of the hill; the sled would fly over it into the air and down into the woods. Ice skating on the frog pond, picking cowslips in that pond in the summer, crossing it along the old fallen trees. .
I remember one winter it snowed about 3 feet. Then it left a 1... inch coat of ice on top. We spent days sliding on our bellies over the snow throughout the woods; the snow created many different size hills to slide over. You could see the many colored sparkles of the sunlight on the ice, snow. Aunt and I noticed this a few years back walking in Worcester at her daughters house; the snow was covered with colored sparkles; they changed colors as we walked. Auntie was a great artist; cartoons and paintings. She drew pictures of the Boston Red Sox and other athletes. The policemen (Gramps was a Mass State Cop) and others. Many paintings of Cape Cod. Our Hotel in South San Francisco, California kept one, its in the lobby!
Aunt had many flowers around the yards. She grew vegetables. I miss the taste of that natural food. Even the water on Kimball street was healthy. She loved her bird feeder attached to the kitchen window. She kept it full of seed. In the winter she filled it with bacon fat. Says it insulates the birds, animals fat cells... keeps them warm. Always a colorful bird at the kitchen window.
Cookouts in the handmade brick fireplace in the low yard. Laying on the blanket looking up at the stars. Toasting marshmallows. Catching lightening bugs. Bringing some in a jar with holes on top for air, and later when its late and dark; releasing them in the house and watching them shine their lights.
We caused a lot of mischief, seem to always be on our mind. It was FUN!! I never remember my Aunt, Uncle spanking any of the kids. Just grounded us in our room... if we caused too much trouble. (throwing dirt bombs at a car...) Possibly one of the first parents to use alternative 'kind' ways to discipline children. It worked; we grew up to be 'good'. That's a main goal in life; to grow, in the right direction, help others do the same. When our time comes we are admitted to a higher level of existence in heaven. I know Auntie made it and is having a blast. Probably in the back seat of a angels chariot with her twin sister doing that 'secret whispering and giggling' about something they find funny.
I do not have brothers and sisters. Thank you Auntie for being a strict Catholic and having a large family! My cousins; Mike, Tom, Shell, Liz and Raf are like brothers and sisters. Now there are many Grandchildren. So much fun growing up, always laughing. Many happy memories. I now see the Dads, Moms and new grannies, granpas passing it along.
During Aunties last months here going through radiation treatments she would call me or I call her. One of her grand kids recently mentioned how Auntie gave her advice, still being a Mom right to the end even though she was suffering. She did similar to me; I was ill for 6 months; She would give encouragement. Days before she went to hospital first time; when she was very weak, she still got me a card with ashes for ash Wednesday at the Catholic church. She thinks of others first.
Missing you so very much,
Love,
Cousin Mare
A candle was lit by Mary I Oliver
on February 3, 2017 6:53 AM
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