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 Mona Pauline Gosselin
June 26, 2006
Mona Pauline Gosselin, 78, of 2334 Government Road, Clayton, N.C., formerly of Pittsfield, died June 26 at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh, N.C., after a long illness.
Born in Bear Creek, Ala., on July 20, 1927, daughter of William E. and Mona Wilson Wilson she was educated in Alabama schools.
She moved to Pittsfield in 1949 and to North Carolina in 2003.
Mrs. Gosselin was employed by Hillcrest Educational Centers as a cook until 1993, when she returned to Alabama to care for her ailing mother. She also worked for many years at the former A.H. Rice Silk Mill and was a cook at Willow Manor and Springside of Pittsfield nursing homes.
She was a member of the Church of Christ on Valentine Road and enjoyed making afghans and quilts. One year after the Cold War ended, she made and shipped more than 100 afghans for Russian relief.
Her husband, William J. Gosselin, to whom she was married 30 years, died in 1997.
She leaves a son, Paul Gosselin of East Haven, Conn.; two brothers, Samuel Wilson of Raleigh and Lewis Wilson of Gardner; four sisters, Betty Jo Trumbley of Branford, Conn., Marion Hensey of Cape Hatteras, N.C., Victoria Shaw of Clayton and Patricia Carmon of Pittsfield; three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by a son, William J. Gosselin II.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Mona "Paula" Gosselin, who died June 26, 2006, will be conducted Sunday, July 9, at 2 at the Pittsfield Church of Christ on Valentine Road by Russell Moody II.
She was also predeceased by a brother William E. Wilson II; a nephew, Francis Smith, and two nieces, Pauline LaFlamme and Brenda Shaw. She loved her large family deeply, especially all the children, and was fond of saying she was just a big kid herself. She will be deeply missed by many.
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