The Boudreau Women: From left are Bonnie Russell, Paula Dykstra, Sue Russell, Debbie Emmert, Lorena McGuiness, Sue Beck, Donna Murphy, Lorena Payne, Paula Glisson.
When former Old Forge resident Donna Boudreau Murphy, a co-organizer of the September 29 Town of Webb All-School Reunion, began planning the event last spring, she took the opportunity to simultaneously pull together a Boudreau family reunion as well.
Sue and David Beck, at left. Sue is the daughter of Irene Boudreau Harwood; and Lorena and Bill Payne.
Donna’s grandparents were long-time Thendara residents Everest and Susan Boudreau who raised seven children: Mary Ellen (Russell), Eva, Irene (Harwood), Eddie, Elton, Harold, and Lorena (Payne), many of whom made the Old Forge area their life-long home, as have their children.
The Boudreau family home was situated on the top of the hill across the road from the Thendara Train Station.
The two “oldest” at the party- Lorena Boudreau Payne and Pauine LaBuz Boudreau Glisson. Lorena is the last surviving of the seven children of Everest and Susan Boudreau.
Among the family members who attended the reunion were: Ted, Bonnie, and Sue Russell, children of Mary and Charles Russell; Sue Beck and Tim Harwood, children of Irene; Pauline Boudreau Glisson, Eddie’s widow and their daughters Donna Murphy and Paula Dykstra; and Lorena Payne of Inlet, the sole surviving Boudreau sibling, and her daughters Debbie Emmert and Lorena McGuiness.
The family, many accompanied by their spouses, enjoyed a reunion dinner at Van Auken’s Inne and were thrilled with the opportunity to be able to catch up on each other’s lives.
