Obituary of Rita Boivin

Rita Boivin, 104, a resident of Pearl St., passed away at her home on Monday, February 23, 2015. Born November 10, 1910 in Victory Mills, NY she was the daughter of the late Louis A. and Bernadette Aussant Boivin. Miss Boivin graduated from Schuylerville Central School in 1929 and earned her teaching degree from the Oneonta Normal School. She taught in Rock Hill School in Rock Hill, NY, in a one room school, where she needed to arrive early to stoke the stove to heat the room. She spent most of her 38 year teaching career, teaching third grade at Schuylerville Central School. She was a life-long communicant of Notre Dame-Visitation Church and had been a member of the Catholic Daughters of Americas #396 and the Ladies of St. Anne. She was a member of The Old Saratoga Seniors. In her youth, she excelled in tennis and basketball. She was an avid bowler and bridge player. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her siblings, Zephrin, Omer, Louis, Alyce, and Alma Boivin; and nephew, Peter Boivin, She will be missed by her large and devoted family. Survivors include nieces and nephews, Mary Alyce Evans of Schuylerville, Anne Dwyer of Coxsackie, Paul (Sally) Boivin of Schuylerville, Michael (Susan) Boivin of Castleton on Hudson, Lisa (Wayne) Higdon of Albany, Michelle (Bob) Relyea of Whitehall, PA ; great nieces and nephews, John Evans, Annie Internicola, Stacey Todd, Shelly Dwyer, Vincent Boivin, Scott Higdon, Kevin Higdon, Robert Relyea III, Thomas Relyea, Kelly Relyea, Nikolas Boivin,; great great nieces and nephews, Isabella Todd, Jacob Internicola, Josephine Internicola, Juliette Internicola, and Jackson Boivin; cousins, Dorothy Boivin DeLuca and Paul and Charles Boivin; and a special friend, Mary Carr. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10am Friday, February 27, 2015 at Notre Dame-Visitation Church in Schuylerville with Rev. Liam Condon, officiating. Spring burial will be in the Notre Dame Cemetery. Friends may call on Thursday from 4-7 pm at Flynn Bros. Inc. Funeral Home, 13 Gates Ave., Schuylerville. Memorials can be made in her memory to Community Hospice of Saratoga 133 Lawrence St., Saratoga Springs or the Schuylerville Dollars for Scholars, C/O Royce Ball, 120 County Route 67, Stillwater, NY 12170. The family would like to thank her friends and caregivers, Alma Westcott and Peggy Fitzgerald.