Angella Matilda Lareau

She was the main child care provider while her husband worked at Pratt & Whitney and Fenn Manufacturing. They also owned a small grocery store on Lawrence Street in Hartford and the family lived right up the road from the store during that time period.

From there the family moved to "the farm" in East Windsor where she proceeded to tear down walls, rip up floors, paint and wallpaper to fix up the house. She tended to the 500 chickens in the coop, and when Sunday dinner rolled around, there wasn't a fresher bird to be had. After the farm was sold, they moved to Park Road in West Hartford and Angella continued to raise the boys.

As they got a little older and were all in school, again she went back to work to help provide for the family. She worked for several years in the meat department at Brown Thompson's on Main Street in Hartford, but then settled into a long career at Champlain Drug on Park Street. She worked there for 18 years before retiring, running both the Post Office and the main front counter

After several years of being alone, Angella fell in love again and married her long time friend and brother-in-law, Leo Lareau of Manchester, on November 3, 1978.

Leo had been married to Florence Lareau (Cote) for many years before her death and also had raised four children. Needless to say, there was now a large combined family of brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and some of the family gatherings were beyond what could be contained under one roof. We all chuckled about that when we meet for family picnics and weddings.

Angella was a very hard working woman who had endless energy. She worked at various jobs throughout her life including being a housekeeper along with her sister when they first moved to the US. She worked at Lorraine Pastry Shop in West Harford Center as a young lady and later met Rene and fell in love.