Louise Dubrule
Biography

Louise Dubrule

I was born in 1938 on the family subsistence farm in Berkshire, Vermont. My brother, sister, and I were first-generation American on both sides. My father’s people came from the region of Canada called La Beauce and my mother’s from the Lac St. Jean area. From age five on, I grew up in Richford, Vermont and eventually married my high school sweetheart, Maurice Dubrule.

For twenty years, I was an Army wife and saw postings in the U. S. and Germany. I worked as a secretary for the YMCA in El Paso until our first child was born. When my husband retired and started a second career, I went back to work as the resident substitute teacher at the nearby Middle School with assignments in every class offered over the next eleven years.

We have a daughter Michelle who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She has given us a granddaughter, Kristina who is a Junior at Arizona State University, as well as a grandson, Cohen, who is in second grade. The younger daughter, Monique, is on staff at Texas A & M University, as is her husband who is also an ordained Deacon. Monique is a one-year cancer survivor.

When Maurice and I retired for good, we made two trips to Britain and poked in every church and museum. These days, my time is spent with a needle in my hand. I make four or five quilts every year to be given as gifts or donated to charitable fund-raising programs, and I enjoy doing large, complex counted-cross projects. When I’m not stitching, I’m reading or cooking. My family says that my aim in life is to keep people warm and fed!

Email Louise at loumoe@swbell.net

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Created 1 Feb 2003