Kidder Memorial Home

 

OBITUARY: Robert Joseph Bruyette, Jr.

DATELINE:  Swanton / Highgate

 

Robert Joseph Bruyette, Jr., age 71 years, died early Wed. morning, May 26, 2010, at the Franklin County Rehabilitation Center in St. Albans Town. A native of Swanton Bobby more recently has been living on Paul’s Court in the Town of Highgate.

 

Born at home in Swanton on, September 10, 1938, he was the son of the late Robert Sr. and Clara (Bohannon) Bruyette and attended Swanton schools. Bobby worked many years as a truck driver for the Swanton Lumber Company and earlier served for a time with the Vermont Army National Guard He will be remembered as being very close to his children and grandchildren.

 

Bobby leaves his longtime friend, companion and caregiver, Jeanette Tipper of Highgate; two children and their spouses, Dale and Tawnya Tipper and Chris and Tammie Barrette;  three step- children, Penny Pederson and husband Jan, Duane Tipper and wife Deanna,  and Patricia Tipper and companion Steve Tremblay; He also leaves five brothers, Clarence Bruyette and his wife Pat, Donald Bruyette and wife Dot, Richard Bruyette, Ronnie Bruyette and wife Patsy and James Bruyette; three sisters, Nancy Hemingway and husband Wallace, Betty Lang and husband Daniel and Rosemary Hakey and husband Donald; 14 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

 

He was predeceased by his father 1989 and his mother in 2006.

 

A Funeral Service will be held Saturday, May 29, 2010, at 11 a.m. from The Kidder Memorial Home, 89 Grand Ave. Swanton. Fr. Thomas D. Nadeau will officiate. The Rite of Committal and Interment will follow at the Bruyette family lot in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sat. from 10 a.m. until the hour of the funeral. Gifts in Bobby’s memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, New England Division, 55 Day Lane, Williston 05495.

 

To offer private online condolences please visit: www.kiddermemorialhome.com

 

A notice of Funeral Held will be posted at the above funeral home website  following the funeral.

 

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