Rita J. Fauteux
PUTNAM — Rita Jeannette Fauteux, 92, formerly of Sabin Street, Putnam, died May 20, 2023, at Brookdale on Eddy Pond in Auburn, Mass., where she had resided since March 2021.  She was the wife for 53 years of the late Gaëtan Fauteux, who died Aug. 20, 2006. Born in 1931 in Ste-Catherine de Kateville P.Q., Canada, she was the daughter of the late Wilfrid Lamoureux and Germaine (Choquette) Lamoureux.
Rita and her family immigrated to Rhode Island in 1966 and moved to Connecticut in 1969.  She worked as a seamstress for many years.  She was a member of the Putnam & Plainfield Senior Citizens Club, the Quinebaug Senior Center in Brooklyn and was a communicant of St. Mary Church.
She leaves her daughter Lyne A. Grillo (Jean-Pierre) of Putnam, her brother Gilles Lamoureux of Magog P.Q. Canada, her twin sister Gamma Lavallee of Longueuil P.Q. Canada, her sisters Cécile Fontaine of Longueuil P.Q. Canada, Armelle Doucet of Magog P.Q. Canada and Bernadette Vaillancourt of Magog P.Q. Canada; her sister-in-law, Denise Lamoureux of Magog P.Q. Canada and her goddaughter Sandra Fontaine of St Jean-Sur-Richelieu P.Q. Canada; a special friend Alice Smith.  In addition to her husband, Rita was predeceased by a daughter, Dominique J. Fauteux on April 7, 2020, and by her brothers, Ivan Lamoureux and André Lamoureux.
The family is planning to celebrate Rita’s life with a funeral mass in Canada and at St. Mary Church of the Visitation in Putnam.  Dates and time will be updated when available.  Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Putnam. Gilman Funeral Home and Crematory, 104 Church St., Putnam.

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