YARMOUTH PORT, Mass. – Rolande (Lanoue) Cloutier, of 29 West Woods, Yarmouth Port, Mass., and beloved wife of Wilfrid A. Cloutier M.D. of 59 years, passed away at home and surrounded by her loving family, on Friday, June 13, after a very long illness.

She was born on June 19, 1923, in St. Blaise near Montreal, Canada, the ninth of nine daughters and then one son, of Joseph and Josephine (Rainville) Lanoue. She had three surviving sisters, all from greater Montreal: Alice LeTellier, Helene Charlton, and Sister Lucienne Lanoue.

She graduated from Ecole Normale (Teacher’s College) Jacques Cartier in Montreal, valedictorian of her class. She taught for seven years at the Victor Dore School for disabled children (mostly polio victims).

On July 23, 1949, she married Wilfrid Cloutier, a month after his graduation from Laval Medical School. They lived in Quebec City during his year of surgical training, then in New York City for his continued training. For two of those years in NYC, she lived alone and worked at Chemical Bank while her husband served in the chest surgical service at Tokyo Army Hospital, attending victims of the Korean War.

In July 1957, they moved to Lewiston, and until July 1990, she managed the myriad details as office manager of her husband’s surgical practice, all while raising their family of six daughters and one son.

In May 1998, they moved to Yarmouth Port, Mass., where they enjoyed 10 more years of retirement together in the King’s Way community. She possessed a lifelong love of learning and was a voracious reader on topics of all kinds throughout her retirement. Over the years, she and her devoted husband also traveled and collected many happy memories all over the world.

She is survived by her daughters, Louise Cloutier of Evanston, Ill., Pauline (Mark) Philie of East Sandwich, Mass., Gisele Cloutier of Falls Church, Va., Suzanne (Jon) Greene of Belchertown, Mass., Marie (Brigham Young) Cloutier of Leominster, Mass., Lisa (Eric) Brown of Medfield, Mass.; and her son, Robert Cloutier of Ellicott City, Md.

She also delighted in and is survived by her nine grandchildren, Elizabeth Diflo, Ryan and Christine Gentes, Michelle Philie, Hannah and George Mayberry, Griffin and Noah Brown, and Wesley Young; as well as many nieces and nephews from Montreal, Quebec, and Lewiston.

She was an elegant and brilliant lady of many talents and deep piety, but it was her humble, caring, devoted and compassionate way that made her beloved by all, including all the patients she met and helped during her husband’s 34 years of surgical practice in Lewiston, and by her many friends wherever she lived, including King’s Way in Yarmouth Port. She will be dearly missed by all.