GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Juliette Bukoveckas, 87, Great Falls, Mont., former Rumford resident, passed away Tuesday, March 4, at Benefis Medical Center of natural causes.

She was born Dec. 20, 1920, in Berlin, N.H., to Frank and Cecelia Latulippe. She was brought up by her grandparents, George and Alphonsine Bailey in Rumford.

After her marriage to Edward Bukoveckas, she spent her life as a homemaker and loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. He passed away in 1969.

In the late 1990s, she moved to Florida to be close to her daughter and in 2003, she moved to Great Falls to be close to her son, Ray.

She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

She is survived by her daughter, Jean Ahearn and her husband, Roland Ahearn Jr., of Lakeland, Fla.; sons, Raymon Bukoveckas and wife, Norma, of Great Falls, Mont., Mark Bukoveckas of Peru and Walter Bukoveckas and his wife, Michele, of East Baldwin; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jeanette Layser of Lancaster, Pa., and Doris Baillargeon of Berlin, N.H.; and a brother, Albert Latulippe and his wife, Paulette, of San Diego, Calif.