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April 18, 1923 - September 26, 2013
Marian (Damm) Gamache, 90, of Peru, passed away Thursday, September 26, 2013 at Heartland Health Care, Henry, IL where she has been a resident since 2009.
Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10 a.m. Monday, September 30, 2013 at St. Patrick?s Church, LaSalle with Rev. Tom Mizeur, Msgr. Dale Wellman and Rev. Paul Carlson, concelebrating. Burial to follow at St. Joseph?s Cemetery, Spring Valley. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday, September 29, at Mueller Funeral Home, Peru and also Monday from 9-10 a.m. at the church.
Mrs. Gamache was born April 18, 1923 in LaSalle to Henry J. and Adelaide (Wagner) Damm. She married Harold J. ?Bud? Gamache on October 18, 1944 at St. Mel?s Parish in Chicago. He passed away March 16, 2010. She worked as a telephone operator, a secretary at Indiana General and the News Tribune and was a homemaker. She was a member of St. Patrick?s Church, LaSalle, a Eucharistic minister, past president of the Ladies of Charity, past president of St. Anne?s Sodality, member of the Catholic War Veterans Auxiliary, Auxiliary for POWs of Romania, St. Bede Mother?s Club and volunteered at the Red Cross, Food Pantry and several nursing homes.
She is survived by a daughter, Patricia (Eugene) Pattelli, rural Hennepin; 2 sons, James B. Gamache of Aurora and Kenneth J. (Debbie) Gamache of Tullahoma, TN; 7 grandchildren, Michelle Joyce, Bradley Pattelli, Shamus Gamache, Tate Gamache, Kelly Lovar, Christina Gamache and Angie Baughman; 15 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harold ?Bud? Gamache, and brother, Henry Damm.
Memorials may be directed to St. Patrick?s Church, LaSalle or a local food pantry.
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