Born in Fort Kent on Feb. 12, 1927, the third daughter of John O. and Edna Daigle Cyr, she graduated from Thornton Academy in the wartime Class of 1945. Many of her male high school classmates were fighting World War II at her graduation rather than listening to their classmates’ graduation speech.
Later, she was a communicant of Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church in Saco, which became Good Shepard Parish. In the early 1960s, she established the hot lunch program at Notre Dame School. While her kids were in school, she was very active at the annual school fairs, and the Thornton Academy Band and Athletic Boosters.
Dolores began her professional career as a secretary for the former Saco Lowell Shops, and later was a secretary for several local attorneys for title insurance. In her early retirement years of the 1990’s, she was a literacy volunteer in Saco and Biddeford and helped many immigrant families learn how to read and speak English. Later she was a docent for the Saco Museum and enjoyed hanging the exhibit posters in shops and businesses around Saco. She also logged more than 1,000 hours as a volunteer for the Southern Maine Health Care breast and cervical cancer unit in Biddeford until her retirement in 2012. Throughout this six-decade period, she was always a member of the AMVET’s Ladies Auxiliary.
She was preceded in death by: her husband, Armand Levesque, in June 1999; a daughter, Arlene E. Levesque, in December 1996; as well as by her brothers, Roland R. Cyr of Revere, Massachusetts, Jean Paul Cyr of Rockville, Maryland, Rodrick Cyr of East Hartford, Connecticut, Lawrence Cyr of New Jersey; and sisters Fernande Ingalls of East Millinocket and Rita Cyr of East Hartford, Connecticut.
Survivors include: her daughter, Andrea Small and husband, David of Zephyrhills, Florida; and three sons, Norman Levesque and wife, Angela of Scarborough, son Raymond Levesque and wife Donna of Limington, and Joel Levesque of Fairfax, Virginia. She also leaves: her grandchildren, Jason Sprague, Kimberly Capone Sprague, David Small Jr., Libbyanne Meola, Arielle and Amelia Levesque, and Lena, Henri and Madeline Levesque; as well as seven great-grandchildren;and 37 nieces and nephews. Her older brother, long-time Livermore Falls resident, Renald Cyr and his wife Polly, also survive her.
Dolores lived a long life of family, good friends, and community. She loved many and felt that love in return. Many will miss her.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at Cote Funeral Home Chapel. We invite all to celebrate her life at a funeral mass at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Most Holy Trinity Church, Good Shepherd Parish, on Main Street, Saco.
In lieu of flowers, friends and families are asked to consider a donation in her name with the Alzheimer’s Foundations of America at: alzfdn.org/ContributetoAFA/makeadonation.html.
Godspeed!
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