{"id":7946,"date":"2015-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/bessie-boudreau\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:19:18","slug":"bessie-boudreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/bessie-boudreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessie Boudreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Bessie (Billis) Boudreau, 85, of Haverhill, passed away Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the Holy family Hospital at Merrimack Valley after a brief illness. Born, Vassiliki Billis, in Groveland, she was the daughter of Nicholas and Helen (Consoulou) Billis, she attended Groveland public schools and was a graduate of Groveland high School, class of 1946. She then attended the Commercial Training School in Trenton, NJ and completed the certificate program in 1947.Mrs. Boudreau was a professional bookkeeper her entire career  she was employed by the United Shoe Machinery Co, the Bixby Boxtoe Co, Liberty Oil Co., all in Haverhill, and later the Internal Revenue Service in Andover. Proud of her Greek heritage  she so loved family celebrations and holidays \u201cGreek Style\u201d and was happy to share her cooking skills with friends and family members. She was all about family gatherings and had an open door policy at her home and a place at her table. A devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, she leaves her husband of sixty-three years, Phillip L. \u201cLou\u201d Boudreau, of Haverhill, three loving children, Gregory L. Boudreau and his wife, Christine, David W. Boudreau, and Lynne A. Boudreau-Ingham and her husband, Michael, all of Haverhill, six cherished grandchildren  Rachael A. Boudreau, Lee G. Boudreau and his wife, Karen, Michael W. Boudreau, Mark D. Boudreau, Erik M. Spero, and Danielle L. Ryan, a great grandson, A.J. Boudreau-Iuele, a brother, Costa Billis, of Groveland, a sister, Catherine Wildes, of Hudson, NH, loving nieces, Pamela Burleigh, Joan Jacobsen, Cheryl Szulewski, Connie Williams, and nephews, James Billis, and Steve Billis.Friends and family are respectfully invited to call on Wednesday, February 25, from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM at the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main St. Haverhill. Funeral services for Mrs. Boudreau will be held on Thursday morning at 11:00 AM in the Funeral Home. Burial will then follow in Riverview Cemetery, Main St. Groveland. Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the charity of one\u2019s choice. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook, or www.comeaufuneral.com.                                           <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill \u2013 Bessie (Billis) Boudreau, 85, of Haverhill, passed away Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the Holy family Hospital at Merrimack Valley after a brief illness. Born, Vassiliki Billis, in Groveland, she was the daughter of Nicholas and Helen (Consoulou) Billis, she attended Groveland public schools and was a graduate of Groveland high School, class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7946\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}