Therese B. Tardif

Winslow - Marie-Thérèse Fleurette Bernier was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 5, 1927, the daughter of Georges and Eugenie (Giroux) Bernier, and resided there until she married. She was educated in Montreal schools.

She met her husband, Louis Tardif, in Maine in 1953. They were married on April 11, 1955 in Montreal, Canada, and settled down in Waterville, moving to their current home in Winslow in 1960. Mr. Tardif passed away in 2011.

Mrs. Tardif was employed as a secretary in Montreal prior to relocating to the United States in 1955. She was a housewife and mother her entire married life and assisted her husband during his tenure as treasurer for H & W Relief for 24 years. She was a communicant of St. John the Baptist Church in Winslow and enjoyed traveling and other leisurely activities, including annual trips to Montreal, visiting her mother-in-law at her camp on Webber Pond in Vassalboro, and day trips to the coast, with her husband and their four children. She was very proud of her two granddaughters and enjoyed visits with them. Mrs. Tardif also enjoyed cooking and sewing and was an excellent cook and seamstress, knitting, ceramics, plastic canvas crafts, and word puzzles.

Mrs. Tardif was predeceased by her parents; five sisters, Fleurette Granger, Georgette Bernier, Charlotte Paradis, Berthe Pelletier, Marguerite Langevin; and one brother, Georges-Edouard Bernier, and their spouses; her mother-in-law, Amanda (Giroux) Tardif Bouchard and sister-in-law, Violet (Tardif) Dutill and her husband. She is survived by her daughter, Lucie of Portland; three sons, Michael and his husband, Harvey Cohen, of Kensington, Maryland; Marc and his wife Karen (Trappen) and their daughters, Allison and Amanda, of Franklin, Massachusetts; and André of Waterville; a brother, Rev. Robert Bernier. P.M.E., of Laval, Quebec, Canada; her two closest nieces, Danielle Pelletier of Montreal; and Lise (Granger) Bourgeois of Joliette, Quebec, Canada; a brother-in-law, Leo Bouchard of Montreal; three other nieces and a nephew of Canada, two nephews of Maine, as well as great nieces and nephews in the United States and Canada.

The family expresses its deepest gratitude to Catherine Ladd of Oakland for her tender, loving care of and devotion to Mrs. Tardif as an elder companion for the past year. The family also extends its gratitude to nursing staff at Lakewood Continuing Care in Waterville for wonderful care they provided to Mrs. Tardif and how they tended to family members at the end of her life.

In accordance with Mrs. Tardif’s wishes, there will be no visiting hours. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 26 Monument Street, Winslow, at 11 a.m., Friday, July 8, with interment to follow at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, Waterville. The family invites all family and friends of Mrs. Tardif to a memorial luncheon immediately following interment (at approximately 12:30 p.m.) at the Lobster Trap Restaurant, 21 Bay Street, Winslow. Please visit www.veilleuxfuneralhome.com to share condolences, memories and tributes with her family.