AUBURN – Claire L. Bedard, 74, of 185 Summer St., Auburn died Sunday, July 11, at the Auburn Residential Care Facility.

She was born in Lowell, Mass., on Feb. 13, 1930, the daughter of Levi and Yvonne (Pineault) Breton. She was a homemaker.

She was the widow of Raymond A. Bedard whom she married on Aug. 25, 1945, and who died on June 20, 1986.

She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Robert, of Norway and Barbara Bedard, of Lewiston; two sons, Robert Bedard, of Otisfield and David Bedard, of Billerica, Mass.; 11 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; and a special friend, Marcel Doyon.

She was predeceased by one son, Dennis Bedard in 1998; and by two brothers.