OBITUARY:  Carter Leonide Gagne

DATELINE:  Highgate Center, Vermont

 

Carter Leonide Gagne, age 8 years, the son of Cyrille L. and Karen (Noorda) Gagne, died unexpectedly, Thursday morning March 10, 2011, at his Tarte Road residence.

 

Born in Saint Albans on May 12, 2002, Carter was attending the Highgate Elementary School. He participated in the schools Bowling Buddies Program and also attended Camp Rainbow. Carter liked going to school and being around the other children. He enjoyed music, dancing and spinning, but most of all he loved “Eating”. He will always be remembered as a very special young man whose short life had a profound effect on people in many ways.

 

He leaves his parents, Cyrille and Karen Gagne of Highgate Center; siblings, Kenneth, Pierre, Ozanna, Desiree, Chantelle, Adrienne and Ruthie all in Franklin County; paternal grandmother, Beatrice Gagne; maternal grandmother, Barbara Noorda and his biological grandparents, Bruce and Debbie Weatherby. Also surviving are nieces and nephews, Micaela, Ashton, Ethan, Gage, Adam and Hayden; his Godfather, Paul Laroche; many aunts, uncles and cousins from Vermont and Massachusettes and numerous friends from the Highgate School and the community.

 

He was predeceased by his paternal grandfather, Pierre Gagne; maternal grandfather, Kenneth Noorda; brother-in-law, Adam Rice I and an infant niece, Grace Teague.

 

A Mass of the Angels will be celebrated Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 11 a.m. from The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 65 Canada Street, Swanton. Father Thomas D. Nadeau will be the celebrant and homilist. The Rite of Committal and Interment will follow at the Gagne family lot in Saint Louis Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lamkin Street, Highgate Center. Friends may call at The Kidder Memorial Home, 89 Grand Avenue, Swanton on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. Gifts in Carter’s memory may be made to Camp Rainbow, in care of, Northwest Counseling and Support Services, Inc., 107 Fisher Pond Road, Saint Albans 05478 or to the family to assists with expenses at 649 Tart Road, Highgate Center, 05459.

 

To offer private online condolences please visit: www.kiddermemorialhome.com