Sr. Claudette Aurore Lapointe, RJM

Sister Claudette Aurore Lapointe, RJM, also known as Mother St. Dominic Savio, 82, of Warwick, entered into eternal life on December 25, 2024. She was a sister of the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary for over sixty-years. Born in Fall River, MA, she was the oldest of seven children of the late Victor and Beatrice (Desrosiers) Lapointe.

Sister Claudette was raised in Fall River, MA, where she attended Notre Dame School and graduated from Jesus Mary Academy. She entered the Novitiate of the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Hyattsville, Maryland on July 31, 1963. Sister Claudette pronounced her First Vows on February 2, 1964. She was then missioned to St. Clare’s Academy in Woonsocket, RI. After her Juniorate and a year of study at Fordham University, Sister Claudette was missioned to Holy Family Parish in Woonsocket, RI where she pronounced her Final Vows on February 2, 1968.

Sister Claudette taught in parish schools throughout Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, and in the Boarding School in Goffstown, New Hampshire. In 1990, she was asked to serve in France, first at the Motherhouse in Lyon, then in Paris, and finally again in Lyon. When Sister Claudette returned from France, she spent one year in the morning and after school program in Goffstown, New Hampshire. In the summer of 2000, she arrived in Warwick, Rhode Island where she served in St. Timothy’s Mission Center and began her work as Pastoral Minister at St. Gregory the Great Parish in Warwick. Sister Claudette also represented the Religious of Jesus and Mary on the Diocesan Council for Religious.

She is survived by her beloved siblings, Rita Lefebvre of St. Pierre, MO, Laurette Shabshelowitz of Westport, MA, Alice Willard of Fall River, MA, Muriel Saunders of Assonet, MA, and Ronald Lapointe of Middleborough, MA, and several nieces and nephews.

She was the sister of the late Claire Belden.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 11:00AM at St. Gregory the Great Church, 360 Cowesett Road, Warwick. Visitation will be held at church prior to the Mass from 10:15AM-10:45AM. Interment will take place at Notre Dame Cemetery in Fall River, MA.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to THE URQUHART-MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Warwick.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to: Religious of Jesus and Mary, Attn: Haiti Fund, 821 Varnum Street N.E. Washington D.C. 20017-2144.

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