Normande \u201cNorma\u201d (Soucy) Cote, born February 25, 1926 in Haverhill, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 on February 1, 2021 at Cedar View Health Care Center in Methuen.<\/p>\n
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Norma was the daughter of the late Laurette (Roy) Soucy and Joseph G. Soucy.\u00a0 She graduated from Haverhill High in 1944.\u00a0 She later became an LPN and worked for many years in the ICU at the Hale Hospital and the Merrimack Valley Holy Family Hospital until her retirement in 1991.<\/p>\n
Her cooking and baking delighted family and friends.\u00a0 All unannounced guests were welcome at her table.\u00a0 At one time in her life she had a bread-baking business.\u00a0 Reading, crocheting and writing poetry were her passions.<\/p>\n
Norma wrote over 60 poems which are included in an anthology she herself created.\u00a0 Meeting at the Roma Restaurant monthly for many years with long-standing friends, she approached their aging years and maladies in her poetry with humor.\u00a0 She expressed her deep faith and love of family in this poetry as well.\u00a0 Over the years, her poems have appeared in three national anthologies and the Reader\u2019s Digest.\u00a0 She was the oldest person to submit a poem to the Northern Essex Community College\u2019s Peace Poetry contest.<\/p>\n
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Norma was the youngest of three sisters; Lena Long who is pre-deceased and Eliette Willett of Lowell, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Norma leaves seven children; Stephen Cote of ME, Jeffrey Cote of Haverhill, Hank and his wife Cheryl of Conway, NH; Pamela Stone and her husband Billy of Methuen, Russell Cote and his wife Kathie of Hampstead, NH; Roy Cote and his wife Holly of MT Pleasant, TN and Bradley Cote of Port Charlotte, FL.\u00a0 She also leaves many nieces and nephews along with 24 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren and two more to arrive this spring.\u00a0 They were all the loves of her life.\u00a0 Norma also leaves many dear friends that she considered as family.<\/p>\n
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A most heart-felt thank-you is being expressed to the neighbors of Fairmount Avenue and a special thanks to Chris and Jane who regularly visited her and enjoyed her warm smile, friendship and apple pie.<\/p>\n
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Due to Covid, services will be private, and the family will hold a Celebration of Life in the spring to be announced. Arrangements are by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street, Haverhill. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to: CAI (Community Action Inc.) Drop-in Center, 3 Washington Square, 4th<\/sup> Floor, Haverhill MA 01830. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or www.comeaufuneral.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Normande \u201cNorma\u201d (Soucy) Cote, born February 25, 1926 in Haverhill, passed away peacefully at the age of 94 on February 1, 2021 at Cedar View Health Care Center in Methuen. Norma was the daughter of the late Laurette (Roy) Soucy and Joseph G. Soucy.\u00a0 She graduated from Haverhill High in 1944.\u00a0 She later became […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}