Bertrand Paul Chouinard

CHILMARK, Mass. – Bertrand Paul Chouinard of Chilmark, Mass., passed away on March 6, 2023.

Born May 28, 1943, to Sam and Corinne Chouinard, Bert grew up in Lewiston, with his brother Roger amidst a large extended French Canadian family. After graduating Lewiston High School in 1961, Bert joined the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and begun a lifelong journey around the world and back again. Early in his first of many overseas assignments at Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, West Germany, on a snowy Christmas Eve he happened upon the young woman who would become his loving wife and the mother of his four children. Together they travelled as a family to every duty station he was ever assigned, from Paris to Brussels, Germany, Thailand, Ethiopia, and several other postings all over the U.S. It was Bert’s intent and his joy to show his family the world.

Bert is survived by Renate his wife and love of 58 years, his children, Maria, Chris, Danny and Kenny; his grandchildren, Melanie, DJ, Tabitha, Julia and Cameron, and his eight great-grandchildren, his sister-in-law Lorraine and his nieces, Diane, Debbie and Denise and his nephew Roger, as well as many cousins.

Master Sgt. Bertrand P. Chouinard (Ret. Army) will be interred amongst his fellow soldiers at the National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts, in a private family ceremony with full military honors befitting this proud old soldier and hero.

For online condolences and more information please visit chapmanfuneral.com.

Family requests in lieu of flowers a donation to Wounded Warriors or your local Hospice in his memory.