1919 – 2003

RYE, N.H. – Muriel Bilodeau Sullivan, 84, formerly of Dover and Portsmouth died Friday, Sept. 26, at Webster at Rye Nursing Home after a period of failing health.

Born in Lewiston, on Aug. 6,1919, she was the daughter of Adelard and Marie Anastasie (Caron) Dulac. She was a graduate of Lewiston High School with the Class of 1939. She was a homemaker in Lewiston and Portsmouth and enjoyed many hobbies including crafts and was an award winning rug braider.

She worked in the housekeeping department at Portsmouth Hospital in the 1960’s and later in the cafeteria at Portsmouth High School. She was an active member of the Portsmouth Democratic Party from the 1950’s through the 1980’s and was a longtime Ward 2 selectman during this time.

She was a former member and officer of the Portsmouth Emblem Club, the Altar Society of the Immaculate Conception Church, the Portsmouth Service Mothers Club of which she was honored as Mother of the Year in 1978, the Piscataqua Chapter 4 DAV Auxiliary of which she was also Chaplain, and a former member of the Knights of Columbus Auxiliary.

Survivors include her children, Irene Payette and her husband Pierre of Locust Grove, Va., Rolande Phillips of North Hampton, Daniel Bilodeau and his wife Muriel of Barrington, Ronald Bilodeau of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Michel Bilodeau and wife Susan of Portsmouth, Suzanne Fantasia and her husband Robert of Watertown, Mass., Raymond Bilodeau Jr. and his wife Linda of Portsmouth, Marie-Helene Belmont and her husband Thomas of Portsmouth, Diane Bilodeau Delisle and her husband Dale of Portsmouth, Patricia VanRossum and her husband David of Rye; her grandchildren, Pauline, Peter, Philip, Nathan, Carrie, David, Rebecca, Michelle, Sydney, Donna, Jason, Adrian, Catherine, Eugene, Thomas, Kyle, Alex, Brandon, Andrew, Raistlin, Raiven, Rainey-Dale, Marrielle, John David, Molly; great-grandchildren, Andrew, Brandon, Cameron, Joseph, Hanna, Virginia, Monty, Stephanie, Darren, Danielle, Mathieu, Marika; two brothers, Marcel Dulac of Lewiston, Roland Dulac of Eliot; two sisters, Simonne Hamann of Rochester, and Therese Champagne of Ashland, Ore.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husbands, Raymond A. Bilodeau in 1965, and John J. Sullivan in 2000; a son, Eugene Bilodeau in 1958; three brothers, Emile Dulac, Maurice Dulac, Willie Dulac; and a sister, Marie Jeanne Cote.