Williams: Sparta, Tennessee

Claire Arnelle (Brosseau) Williams

Claire Arnelle (Brosseau) Williams, age 82 passed away at Life Care of Sparta Nursing Facility in Tennessee on October 26, 2024, following a long struggle with end-stage COPD.

She was born on February 24, 1942, in Colchester, Vermont to George and Bernadette (Kirby) Brosseau, the eldest of their seven children. She graduated from Winooski High School in 1960 and soon after married Robert Foster and had two daughters and later married Ernest Willams, with whom she had another daughter.

Claire will be most remembered as a loving and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and sister. She was always a hard worker at her various jobs as a secretary and capped off her working years as a nurse's aide at Fletcher Allen Health Care, retiring from that position.

She is survived by her daughters and their spouses/partner Penny (Foster) and Guy Marchessault, Cindy (Foster) and Randy Proulx and Sheri (Williams) Russell and James Latulippe, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings Bob Brosseau and wife Debbie, Donald Brosseau and wife Paulette, Aline Pelkey and Suzanne and her husband Sid Reynolds.

She was predeceased by her husband Ernie Williams, parents George and Bernadette Brosseau, a brother, Richard Brosseau, a sister Annette Minor, a brother-in-law, Tony Pelkey and two infant children, Bobby and Linda Foster.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, November 14, at 10:00am at LaVigne Funeral & Cremation Service, 132 Main St., Winooski. Burial will follow at St. Francis Xavier Cemetery.