AUBURN – Irene C. Richard, 82, of Grandview Circle, Mexico, passed on Saturday, Aug. 2, to eternal rest, surrounded by her family at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, where she had been a patient for several days.

She was born on Aug. 11, 1925, in Lewiston, the daughter of Joseph and Valerie Chasse.

Irene enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren, gardening, playing cards, bird watching, bowling and especially playing jokes on her loved ones. She also performed many hours of volunteer work at the What Not shop and at the Rumford school system dining room.

She is survived by three sons, Jeffery D. of Dixfield, William P. and wife, Patricia, and sons, Andrew and Brian, of Somerset, N.J., and Robert J. and wife, Katherine, and son Robert, of North Reading, Mass., and her daughter, Patricia A., and son Corey, of Saco. Also surviving are two sisters, Doris Bernier of Long Island, N.Y., Diane Heilman of Manorville, N.Y.; brother, Robert Bernier of Wolfsboro, N.H.; sister-in-law, Mildred Mickeriz of Rumford; and several nieces and nephews.

She is predeceased by husband, Vincent J. Richard.