ACUSHNET ~ Emelie Bertha Juliette (Protin) LaFountain, 89, of Acushnet, died Monday March 17, 1997, at the Acushnet Nursing Home after a long illness. She was the widow of Leon L. "Leo" LaFountain and the daughter of the late Louis and Emelie (Champluvier) Protin.
Born in New Bedford, she lived in the city for 12 years before moving to East Freetown in 1920, where she lived for 74 years, until she moved to Acushnet. She and her husband owned and operated the Pine Grove Poultry Farm at 276 Bullock Road in East Freetown Massachusetts. They purchased it from her parents in 1938. He had been working on it since 1933 until retiring in 1965.
She was a communicant of St. John Neumann Church, a member of the Dartmouth Council on Aging, the Freetown Council on Aging and the Freetown Taxpayers Association.
Bertha enjoyed painting, gardening, traveling, crocheting and feeding the wild geese on her farm.
She was the sister of the late George Protin.
She was interested in painting and drawing. She never had any lessons, but was very talented. He was a truck driver building Bullock Road in that town, when he met his wife. They owned 65 acres of farm on Quanapoag Road and 20 plus acres of farm on Bullock Road where they worked and raised their family.
Arrangements are by the Brooklawn Funeral Home, 15 Irvington Court, New Bedford.
Born in New Bedford, she lived in the city for 12 years before moving to East Freetown in 1920, where she lived for 74 years, until she moved to Acushnet. She and her husband owned and operated the Pine Grove Poultry Farm at 276 Bullock Road in East Freetown Massachusetts. They purchased it from her parents in 1938. He had been working on it since 1933 until retiring in 1965.
She was a communicant of St. John Neumann Church, a member of the Dartmouth Council on Aging, the Freetown Council on Aging and the Freetown Taxpayers Association.
Bertha enjoyed painting, gardening, traveling, crocheting and feeding the wild geese on her farm.
She was the sister of the late George Protin.
She was interested in painting and drawing. She never had any lessons, but was very talented. He was a truck driver building Bullock Road in that town, when he met his wife. They owned 65 acres of farm on Quanapoag Road and 20 plus acres of farm on Bullock Road where they worked and raised their family.
Arrangements are by the Brooklawn Funeral Home, 15 Irvington Court, New Bedford.
ACUSHNET ~ Emelie Bertha Juliette (Protin) LaFountain, 89, of Acushnet, died Monday March 17, 1997, at the Acushnet Nursing Home after a long illness. She was the widow of Leon L. "Leo" LaFountain and the daughter of the late Louis and Emelie (Champluvier) Protin.
Born in New Bedford, she lived in the city for 12 years before moving to East Freetown in 1920, where she lived for 74 years, until she moved to Acushnet. She and her husband owned and operated the Pine Grove Poultry Farm at 276 Bullock Road in East Freetown Massachusetts. They purchased it from her parents in 1938. He had been working on it since 1933 until retiring in 1965.
She was a communicant of St. John Neumann Church, a member of the Dartmouth Council on Aging, the Freetown Council on Aging and the Freetown Taxpayers Association.
Bertha enjoyed painting, gardening, traveling, crocheting and feeding the wild geese on her farm.
She was the sister of the late George Protin.
She was interested in painting and drawing. She never had any lessons, but was very talented. He was a truck driver building Bullock Road in that town, when he met his wife. They owned 65 acres of farm on Quanapoag Road and 20 plus acres of farm on Bullock Road where they worked and raised their family.
Arrangements are by the Brooklawn Funeral Home, 15 Irvington Court, New Bedford.
Born in New Bedford, she lived in the city for 12 years before moving to East Freetown in 1920, where she lived for 74 years, until she moved to Acushnet. She and her husband owned and operated the Pine Grove Poultry Farm at 276 Bullock Road in East Freetown Massachusetts. They purchased it from her parents in 1938. He had been working on it since 1933 until retiring in 1965.
She was a communicant of St. John Neumann Church, a member of the Dartmouth Council on Aging, the Freetown Council on Aging and the Freetown Taxpayers Association.
Bertha enjoyed painting, gardening, traveling, crocheting and feeding the wild geese on her farm.
She was the sister of the late George Protin.
She was interested in painting and drawing. She never had any lessons, but was very talented. He was a truck driver building Bullock Road in that town, when he met his wife. They owned 65 acres of farm on Quanapoag Road and 20 plus acres of farm on Bullock Road where they worked and raised their family.
Arrangements are by the Brooklawn Funeral Home, 15 Irvington Court, New Bedford.
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