Francis W. Bourquard

02/11/2005

Francis W. Bourquard, 78, of 340 Laurel Street died Friday at the Laurel Lake Center for Health and Rehabilitation. Born on June 15, 1926, in Housatonic, son of the late Edmund and Rosa Meier Bourquard, he was a 1944 graduate of Searles High School in Great Barrington. He served in the Navy during World War II from 1944 to 1946 and was stationed in California. After the war, he graduated in 1952 from American International College in Springfield with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He worked as a manager at Pioneer Credit Corp. in Pittsfield and Great Barrington. He was hired as personal loan manager of North Adams Hoosac Savings Bank in 1963. He retired in 1990 as vice president, manager of consumer loans. He was a communicant of St. Mary's Church. He leaves his wife, the former Barbara Kelly, whom he married in 1960. He also leaves two sons, William F. Bourquard of Lee and John Bourquard of Indianapolis, Ind.; a daughter, Kelly Koperek of Lee; a brother, Leon Bourquard of Lenox; two sisters, Mary Bredin and Irene Penny, both of Pittsfield, and three grandchildren. FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services will be on Tuesday morning at 9:15 from the KELLY FUNERAL HOME in Lee, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at St. Mary's Church. Burial will follow at St. Mary's Cemetery. Visiting hours will be on Monday from 4 to 7 at the funeral home. Friends wishing may make donations to St. Mary's School Library Fund or to the Down Syndrome Resource Group of Western Massachusetts in care of the funeral home, 3 Main St., Lee, MA 01238. Mr. Bourquard was predeceased by a brother, Edmund Bourquard Jr., who died in 2000. He also leaves his grandchildren, Michael and Sean Koperek and Jack Bourquard, along with numerous nieces and nephews. This June, he and his wife would have celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary.

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