WATERVILLE – Sister Gisele Boucher, CSJ, 82, died March 7, at MaineGeneral Medical Center, Thayer Unit.

She was born in Lewiston, Oct. 5, 1925, daughter of Jean Charles and Carmelle (Grenier) Boucher.

She attended Holy Family School in Lewiston and graduated from Lewiston High School, after which she worked at the Lewiston Sun Journal for one year and at the Maine State Department of Health and Welfare, Auburn office for one year.

She entered the novitiate of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyon in So. Berwick in 1945 and made her first profession on Aug. 13, 1947. She completed her normal training courses in business at Auburn Maine School of Commerce; her B.S. in business education at Husson College, Bangor; a B.A. in social sciences at LaMennais College in Alfred; and an MLS in library science at the University of Maine in Orono.

She taught at St. Rose of Lima School in Chisholm; Sacred Heart Academy in Jackman; St. John the Baptist School in Winslow; Academy of St. Joseph in South Berwick; McIntosh College in Dove, N.H.; and St. Dominic Regional High School in Lewiston.

She served as secretary and bookkeeper at Notre Dame Parish in Waterville from 1977 to 1988, and as secretary at St. Joseph Provincialate, Winslow from 1987 to 1994. She served as the American secretary at three General Chapters held in Switzerland, France, and Italy. She also participated in an international seminar held in Orsay, France.

In later years, she visited and brought Holy Communion to the elderly and sick parishioners of St. John the Baptist Parish, Winslow and of the Holy Cross Parish, Lewiston. She retired to Mount St. Joseph, Waterville in February 2003.

She is survived by one brother, Roger Boucher and sister-in-law, Joan Leclerc, of McLean, Va.; two sisters, Jacqueline Boucher (Benoit Letendre) of Lewiston, Helen and brother-in-law, Leonel L’Heureux, of Winthrop; a sister-in-law, Constance Demers (Marcel Boucher) of Fort Myers, Fla.; sister-in-law, Germaine Jutras (Jean Charles Boucher, Jr.) of Turner; brother-in-law, Francis McAvoy (Monique Boucher) of Lewiston; as well as several nephews and nieces, grand-nephews and grand-nieces.

She was predeceased by two sisters, Carmelle and husband, Jeffrey Brikates and Monique Boucher; and two brothers, Marcel Boucher and Jean-Charles Boucher Jr.