Letha Brodeur

Letha Brodeur

Letha Brodeur of Mackinac Island and St. Ignace lived many years on Mackinac Island, where she worked for Angels of Mackinac, The Leather Corral, and the Stuart House Museum.

Mrs. Brodeur was 87 when she died Sunday evening, April 8, 2007, at Mackinac Straits Hospital Long Term Care Facility in St. Ignace, where she had been a resident for more than a year.

She was born November 28, 1919, in Barnhill, Ohio, to Ellsworth and Nellie (nee Caddie) Cole.

She was graduated from Michigan State University in East Lansing with a degree in elementary education.

Mrs. Brodeur is survived by her daughter and her family, Leanne Brodeur and Mark Bunker of Mackinac Island; a daughter-in-law, Loretta Brodeur Spata of Mackinac Island; five grandsons, Dennis Brodeur, Tony Brodeur, Joseph Brodeur, Fred Brodeur, and Darcy Brodeur- Bunker; a granddaughter, Morgan Brodeur-Bunker; 11 great-grandchildren; two nieces, Marilyn Wilkins of St. Ignace and Letha Marie Russell of Corpus Christi, Texas, and her former husband, Dennis Brodeur of Mackinac Island.

She was preceded in death by her son, Fred Brodeur, in 1974; her sister, Thelma O'Brien, in 2004; a brother, Willard Cole, in 1999, and a brother-in-law, Captain Ray O'Brien, in 1997.

Burial will be later this year at Lakeside Cemetery in St. Ignace, and a memorial service will be held this summer on Mackinac Island, at Ste. Anne's Catholic Church.

Dodson Funeral Home of St. Ignace assisted the family with arrangements.