Born in Fall River, the daughter of the late Gideon and Margaret (Menchion) LaPierre, she became a resident of Somerset in 1960 when she and her husband purchased their family home.
A graduate of the former Sacred Heart Academy, class of 1946, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1950 from Bridgewater State University. She worked as a first-grade teacher at Chace Street School in Somerset for 23 years retiring in 1992. Prior to that, she taught in Fall River and was a member of the Massachusetts Municipal Retired Employees Association. She was also a member of the Bristol County Retired Teachers Association and served as Secretary from 2000 to 2002.
An active communicant of St. Thomas More Church, she enjoyed reading, baking, listening to music, singing, the theater, trivia games, playing cards and going to the beach.
Jeanne loved spending time with her family. She is survived by her five daughters, Kathryn Langone and her husband Louis of Townsend, MA, Nancy Kozak of North Eastham, MA, Karen Turco of West Yarmouth, MA, Elizabeth “Betsy” Roderick and her husband James of West Yarmouth, MA, Susan Kozak of Raleigh, NC, four grandchildren, two great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was also the mother-in-law of the late Dean Turco.
Her Visitation will be held on Friday, June 2, 2023 from 9:00 to 10:30AM in the Waring-Sullivan Home at Rose E. Sullivan, 866 County St., Somerset, followed by a Funeral Mass at 11:00AM in St. Thomas More Church, 386 Luther Ave., Somerset. Relatives and friends are invited. Contributions in her honor may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, 611 Granite Springs Rd., Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 or to Hanover Hospice, 10 N. Main St., 1st Floor, Fall River, MA 02720. Burial in Notre Dame Cemetery, Fall River.
