Jeannine Breton

Jeannine (LaPointe) Breton, 90, of Winslow, Maine passed away peacefully on July 12 at Sedgewood Commons Memory Care in Falmouth. She was born on November 4, 1932, the daughter of Albert and Marie (Jacques) LaPointe. Jeannine was the beloved wife of Donald Breton, who died July 21, 2019, together they raised 4 children.

Jeannine grew up in Winslow where she went to school only able to speak French. She was exceptionally smart with numbers and helped her husband Don run his service station business in Waterville/Winslow for many years. After she and Don married, they were stationed with the US Navy in Orange, Texas where Laurie was born. They moved back to Winslow upon his discharge to raise their family.

Jeannine was a devout Catholic and enjoyed going to church at St. John Catholic Church in Winslow. She loved roller-skating as a teenager; which was how she met her husband and later on dancing with her husband and friends. Jeannine loved her family and raising her children. She enjoyed taking them to their many activities and was proud of their achievements. She loved sewing her daughter’s clothes and helping her sons enjoy their hobbies as well. Her grandchildren remember swinging with her for hours laughing at silly stories, and making maple sugar taffy in the snow. She loved long walks on cool summer evenings, driving to the coast on Sundays, (always stopping along the way for ice cream), and picking berries for her delicious homemade pies. Her favorite time was when all of her children and family were together for the holidays and summer vacations making lasting memories. Jeannine was a homemaker, but she also loved her jobs at Butlers and Hallmark so she could meet new people. She loved her grandchildren and great grandchildren and wished that they all lived closer so she could spoil them more. She was loved by so many and will be missed dearly.

Jeannine is predeceased by her loving husband Donald, her daughter Laurie Vigue who passed away in 2017, and her brothers Joseph and Donald LaPointe. She is survived by her children, John Breton (Margaret) of Freedom, NH, Nancy Haskell (Kirk) of Palm Coast, FL, and Joey Breton (Heather) of Cape Elizabeth, ME; her sisters Rose Traynor (Ronald) of Tolland, CT and Cecile LaPointe of Waterville, ME; her grandchildren, Melissa Coates, Samantha Breton, Johnny Wood (Autumn), Henrik & Daphne Nelson, Jasper Breton, Lelah Main (Chris), and Sierra Haskell; and her great grandchildren, Benjamin & Shawn Coates, Summer Wood, Andrew and Athelstan Main and Lamar White, and many nieces and nephews.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, July 24 at 10 AM at St. John Church in Winslow, followed by a burial at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, Grove Street in Waterville. Please visit www.VeilleuxFuneralHome.com to share your condolences with the Breton family.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Corpus Christi Parish, 17 S. Garand Street Winslow ME 04901, in memory of Jeannine.