Rita Françoise GRATTON

CHARBONNEAU, Rita Françoise (Gratton) - At the Cornwall Community Hospital on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. She was 86. Beloved wife of the late Jean- Baptiste Charbonneau. Dear mother of Marie-Anne DuFour (late Brian), Arthur (Eileen), and Roger (Dawn Begg). Sadly missed by 6 grandchildren, Jimmy, Michelle (Gatien) Bruyere, Chris Charbonneau (Sara), Shawn DuFour, Charlene DuFour (Joe) Farazzi and Jean-Arthur Charbonneau (Melissa) and 9 great-grandchildren. Also survived by one brother Jean-Paul Gratton (late Josephine), one sister Agathe Viau (Roger), one sister-in-law Delima Leblanc (Albert) and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her parents, Oscar and Marie-Anne (D'Aoust) Gratton, 3 sisters Therese Brunet (Leo), Noella Clement (Alfred), Jeannine Cleroux (late Remi) and 7 brothers, Laurier, Aurele (Dolores), Lionel (late Jeannine), David (late Murielle), Euclide (Edie), Rolland (Late Alice) and Benoit in infancy. Friends will be received at the M. John Sullivan Funeral Home, 341 Pitt Street (across from city hall), Cornwall, on Sunday from 2 - 4 p.m. and 7 - 9 p.m. and on Monday from 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Funeral Liturgy Monday, January 21, 2008 in the chapel of the funeral home at 10 a.m. followed by cremation. Rite of Committal, in Hawkesbury in the Spring. As expressions of sympathy memorial donations to the Alzheimer Society (Cornwall Chapter) would be appreciated by the family. 10964095