Laconia-----Mrs. Pauline Marie (Hebert) Rudzinski of Elm Street passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at the St. Francis Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Laconia with her family at her side. She was 86 years old.
Mrs. Rudzinski was born February 10, 1925 in Franklin, N.H. to Leda Fugere Hebert. Due to her mother’s chronic illness, she went to live at St. Patrick’s Orphanage in Manchester, N.H. at the age of 7. She was very happy there and made life-long sister- like friends. She left the orphanage at the age of 16 and returned to Laconia to live with her sister, Frances. She worked for a time as a nanny and housekeeper for the Clyde Cantin family. She worked at Laconia Shoe Company for a brief time. In 1943, she met the love of her life, William “Bill” Rudzinski, Jr. and they married in 1945. She worked with her husband in his vending machine business until he retired in 1996. People may remember her from Bill’s Playland on the Boardwalk at Weirs Beach, working alongside her husband for 33 years (a family business). She spent the first 25 years of her marriage on the lake on Union Avenue where she and her husband raised their five children. She was a great mom and precious human being and loved dearly by most who met her. She enjoyed playing cards, trips to Las Vegas, bingo, puzzles, gardening, crocheting, tatting, the ocean, sitting on her back deck and most of all family gatherings and being a mom, gram and nani. She was a caring and sharing person who sent approximately two hundred Christmas cards with personal messages to family and friends each year and receiving as many. She was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish, a lifelong member of The Catholic Daughters of America and Emblem Club 80 of Laconia.
She will be sadly missed but never forgotten by her very devoted family. She leaves behind her beloved husband, Vincent William “Bill” Rudzinski, Jr, of 66 years; daughters, Sylvia Batchelder of Lakeport, Leda Rudzinski of Gilford, Stacia Larivee of Gilford, Paula DuBois and her husband, Bert, of Gilford; daughter-in-law, Veronica Rudzinski, of Belmont; granddaughters, Christina Batchelder, Danielle Minery, Pauline Doucette and her husband, Timothy, and Brandi DeGroot and her husband, Bill; grandsons, Jack Batchelder and his wife, Shelly, Victor Larivee Jr. and his wife, Jill, Vincent Rudzinski IV and Damien Rudzinski and his wife, Elizabeth; great granddaughters, Olivia Doucette, Autumn Minery, Samantha Batchelder and Cordelia Larivee-Ambrose; great grandsons, River Minery, Nathan Batchelder, Matthew Doucette, Colby Batchelder and William Rudzinski; her brother, Raymond Foster, and his wife, Claire, of Vermont and sister, Ruth Cormier, of Laconia and several nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her son, Vincent “Bud” Rudzinski III, in 2010, grandson, Rodney Colby, in 1996, son-in-law, Edward Batchelder in 2003, her sisters, Helen Labrie, Frances Binette, Lillian Ducharme and Rita Barton and brothers, Leon Foster and Eddy Hebert.
Calling hours will be held on Friday, July 8, 2011 from 4:00-6:30PM in the Carriage House of the Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Noon at St. Andre Bessette Parish, St. Joseph Church, 30 Church Street, Laconia, N.H.
Burial will follow in the family lot in Bayside Cemetery, Laconia, NH.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N. H. is assisting the family. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.