Denis TESSIER

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Denis Tessier on February 15, 2016 at the age of 66 years old.

Daniel TESSIER

Daniel Tessier décédé subitement le mardi 16 février 2016, à l'âge de 53 ans.

Gilles TESSIER

À Montréal, le 18 février, 2016 à l'âge de 72 ans, est décédé M. Gilles Tessier, conjoint de Mme Judith Kennedy.

Lucille TESSIER

À Saint-Jean-de-Matha, le 16 février 2016, à l’âge de 90 ans, est décédée madame Lucille Tessier, épouse de M. Albert Archambault.

Edmond TESSIER; Battle of the Little Bighorn

Edmond D TESSIER
(1844-1876)

Edmund D Tessier
United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army
Nom:     Edmund D Tessier
Type d'événement:     Military Service
Date de l'événement:     26 Nov 1866
Lieu de l'événement:     Detroit, , Michigan, United States
Âge:     22
Année de naissance (estimée):     1844
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Edmond D Tessier
United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army
Nom:     Edmond D Tessier
Type d'événement:     Military Service
Date de l'événement:     26 Nov 1871
Lieu de l'événement:     Yorkville, , South Carolina, United States
Âge:     24
Année de naissance (estimée):     1847
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Pvt Tessier enlisted into the U.S. Army at Detroit MI on November 26, 1866. He was described as 5'7" tall, dark eyes, dark hair and fair complexion. His civilian occupation was listed as clerk.

On February 24, 1867, Tessier reported for duty at Ft Morgan in the Colorado Territory. He was assigned to Company L, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Company L was commanded by Lt James Calhoun, the brother-in-law of LTC George Armstrong Custer & Capt Tom Custer.

At Yorksville SC, Tessier's enlistment expired on November 26, 1871. He reenlisted back into Company L. During his enlistments his daily duties were listed as hospital steward, regimental clerk & assistant to the quartermaster. On January 13, 1872, his rank was listed as sergeant. On April 25, 1872, his rank was listed as private.

At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Company L was attached to Custer's Battalion. Sometime during the battle Tessier was killed.

After the battle many bodies from Company L were found on or near Calhoun Ridge & Calhoun Hill.

Tessier's body was never reported as being identified. It is likely that his unidentified remains were buried on the battlefield, where they had been found.

In 1881 all known battlefield burials were moved to a mass grave on Last Stand Hill.

Burial:
Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument
Little Big Horn Battle Site
Big Horn County
Montana, USA
Plot: Mass Grave Last Stand Hill

Created by: Randy
Record added: Oct 17, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 16221627

"United States Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDR-3QPY : accessed 21 July 2015), Edmond D Tessier, 26 Nov 1871; citing p. 7, volume 076, Yorkville, , South Carolina, United States, NARA microfilm publication M233 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 40; FHL microfilm 350,346.

Embrun, Ontario

Le bon curé FORGET en compagnie de la classe de confirmation de 1912,
Embrun, Ontario.

M. Forget fut l'âme dirigeante de la paroisse St-Jacques d'Embrun de 1896 à 1956.

«L'Histoire de St-Jacques d'Embrun, c'est le récit du miracle canadien répété sur les bords de la rivière Castor; c'est le spectacle d'une phalange de vaillants colons, qui, la hache à la main,
s'enfoncent en pleine forêt et se font une magnifique trouée sur le sol d'Ontario, comme autrefois leurs pères dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent».

La première famille TESSIER à venir s'établir dans un modeste campement à Embrun est celle d'Antoine TESSIER et de Marie-Louise CYR en provenance de L'Orignal dès l'été 1855.
Antoine a 60 ans, Marie-Louise 56 ans.
Quatre fils du couple s'installent également à Embrun, Charles et Antoine, Magloire et Évangéliste.
La famille construit une cabane sur une terre de 200 arpents le long de la Petite Rivière-du-Castor, affluent de la Nation, la famille est pauvre et trime dur pour surmonter la misère noire qui sévit dans cette contrée nouvelle où l'on mange de la galette et des patates.

André TESSIER

Andre Albert TESSIER– At Cornwall on Wednesday February 10, 2016. He was 82.

Richard TESSIER

À l’Hôpital Ste-Croix, le 1 février 2016, est décédé à l’âge de 56 ans,
Monsieur Richard Tessier, fils de Paul-Rock Tessier (feu Carmen Pouliot), demeurant à Drummondville.

 

Lucien TESSIER

LUCIEN TESSIER

(1943-1968)

United States Marine Corps

By THOMAS BURKE
Special to the Union Leader

Manchester native, born December 23, 1943,  Lucien Tessier captained the Boston College track and field team in 1964-65. (COURTESY)

Manchester native Lucien Tessier leans at the wire to win a sprint for Boston College in a dual meet against Dartmouth College at White Stadium in Boston’s Franklin Park. (COURTESY)

Manchester native Lucien Tessier in his U.S. Marine Corps dress blues. (COURTESY)
Lucien Tessier, a Manchester native who captained the Boston College track and field team in 1964-65, seemed born to run, but his ambition was to fly.

According to his sister, Priscille De Sena, “His loves were the Marine Corps, flying and Boston College.”

Tessier was a sprinter and a Golden Gloves boxer during his years at Manchester's Bishop Bradley High School. He was a “red chip” athlete, not a scholarship recruit but the kind of self-made star of whom BC fans are especially appreciative.

As a Marine Corps helicopter pilot, he became a hero, ultimately giving his life for his country in Vietnam.

One of 29 Boston College graduates who died in the line of duty during the Vietnam War, Tessier will be inducted into the Boston College's Varsity Club Hall of Fame Friday night.

“We would go on family trips, and as soon as the car stopped, he'd be out and running,” recalled De Sena, who attended St. Joseph's High in Manchester and followed her brother to BC, where she graduated in 1967. “It was part of his makeup. He just loved to run. Later on, as a teenager, he'd put on his shoes and he'd be out jogging every day, in the rain, good weather, bad weather. He had to run.”

But he dreamed of flying.

As a boy, his sister said, Tessier built and flew gas-powered model airplanes with their father, Robert, and the two often drove to the airport just to watch planes take off and land. Lucien's longtime ambition, she said, was to become a pilot.

When he got to Boston College in the fall of 1961, Tessier walked onto the track team, earned a roster spot and proceeded to transform himself into a top-notch, three-season college athlete.

Phil Jutras, a distance runner and a scholarship winner out of Manchester Central High, roomed with Tessier at Boston College.

“Lou was a developing sprinter, one of the top three or four guys in the state of New Hampshire, but he wasn't first,” Jutras said, recalling their high school days. “From high school to his junior year of college, he probably improved by six-tenths of a second (in the 100-yard dash). That's a huge amount in the 100. And it was all due to hard work. He was an extremely focused guy. Not a big ego. He took track seriously, but he didn't take himself very seriously.”

Tessier's speed and agility also earned him an invitation to try out as a running back or receiver for coach Jim Miller's football team at BC, but he declined the offer and ran cross country during the fall to stay in shape for the shorter events in the winter and spring seasons.

His primary events in outdoor track were the 100 and the 220. Five times during his career he won both races in dual meets. He captured the 100 at the Greater Boston Championships and won the New Englands with a time of 9.7 seconds, a BC school record. Indoors, he won the 60-yard dash at the UConn Relays in 6.4 seconds, and he tied the school record in the 50-yard dash at Brown with a time of 5.4 seconds.

Boston College teammate Paul Delaney remembers Tessier as a true team player in a sport typically associated with individual achievement.

“He doubled or tripled in all the meets, indoor and outdoor. He could do the sprint, the hurdles, a leg in the relays and the quarter in the mile relay,” Delaney said. “Whatever the team needed, he would do. He was always up, a gung-ho Marine, and he was always ready to go out and get some points for the team.”

Tessier's performance in the dual meet at rival Holy Cross during his junior year clinched his team captaincy. He won the 100 and the 220, and anchored the relay. As the meet's end approached, the Eagles trailed the Crusaders by a few points and were running short of athletes. Tessier volunteered to compete in the hurdles, an event he'd never run. He nabbed a third place, and BC eked out a victory. The team elected him captain for the coming season during a restaurant stop on the way home.

“That was four events in one day. But one of the unusual things about Lucien, and why the guys picked him as captain, was the interest he took in everybody,” said Jutras.

“When a track meet starts, people get caught up in their own event. I'd be pacing up and down, thinking about what I'm going to do, not paying attention to anyone else. Not Lucien. He was always around, talking with everybody — down at the high jump pit, the discus, the pole vault. He was very approachable.”

Tessier's speed made him a perfect leadoff runner for the indoor 4x440-yard relay team. He would grab the lead and hold off challengers, who found it almost impossible to pass him on the short, tightly banked wooden tracks. The Eagles won the 4x440 at both the New York A.C. Games and the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden in Tessier's senior year.

A French major in the Boston College School of Education, Tessier graduated in 1965. According to his sister, he planned to teach or become an airline pilot. But military service came first, and he prepared for it by enrolling in the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Course at BC, one of the country's largest PLC programs at the time. Tessier was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps and trained to fly the massive CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters.

Training in the Corps is always difficult, but for Tessier it wasn't all work. He was one of the lucky officers who got to don dress whites and escort beauty queens on their runaways. Because he spoke perfect French, he squired Miss France in the Miss Universe competition.

While in flight training at El Toro, Calif., Tessier escorted Caylene Walt, Miss Orange County in the Miss America competition. They fell in love and planned their wedding for June of 1968.

But the war in Vietnam escalated with the Tet Offensive in January of that year, and Tessier's helicopter crashed into a mountain in North Vietnam with eight men aboard on Feb. 19, 1968. Capt. Tessier and his companions were listed as missing in action for several months before the crash site was discovered.

Delaney, who graduated a year after Tessier and served in the Army, paid his former track captain a visit at Da Nang in South Vietnam just a week before Tessier's last mission. The memory of that trip — and of the man he visited — remains vivid.

“Lucien Tessier lived his life with intensity and commitment to Boston College, the USMC and his country,” Delaney said. “He was truly a man one would never forget.”

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Norman TESSIER

Norman Harry Lewellyn Tessier of Vanguard, SK passed away on January 25, 2016, at the age of 83. He was born in Shaunavon, SK on September 4, 1932, to Antoine and Marguerite Jacques.

Lee TESSIER

On January 29, 2016 Leon Robert Tessier, 84, of Dundalk MD, beloved husband of Sharon Miller; Loving Father of Susan Harbin and her husband Steve, Jean Ross, Patty Fortin and her husband Rene, Kathy Shepard and her husband Steve, Robert Tessier and wife Liz, Jim Tessier, Paul Tessier, Dianne Begnoche and her husband Mike, Michael and Shawn Tessier... Dear brother of Richard, John, David and their spouses. Predeceased by his first wife Marie Chevalier...

source Kaczorowski Funeral Home

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Gracia TESSIER

 Mme Gracia TESSIER

1925-2016

À Valcourt, le 3 février 2016, à l'âge de 90 ans, est décédée Gracia Tessier, épouse de Rodolphe Bouthillette, demeurant à Bonsecours, Qc.

Mariée depuis 70 ans, elle était la fille de Wilfrid Tessier et Laura Boisvert, de Stukely, Qc.

source BMS2000; http://www.famillebessette.com

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Louis TESSIER

Louis A. Tessier, Jr., 89, passed away at his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, after having been recently diagnosed with lung cancer, with his wife, Anne, and children at his side... Lou grew up in Dorchester and was a proud 1944 graduate of Boston Latin School, where he lettered in four varsity sports and was elected to Latin's Hall of Fame. He proudly served his country multiple times - during World War II with the Army Air Corps on Okinawa (Japan), during the Korean War as an Army field artillery instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and as a member of the Massachusetts Army Reserve.
Lou graduated from Boston College in 1951 and remained a dedicated alumnus. That same year he married Anne T. Flaherty of Norwood, started a family, and in 1954 moved to Falmouth, where they operated Sherry's, a seasonal restaurant on Main Street. Lou was a draftsman at Kingman Marine in Cataumet, taught high school math and science in Wareham and Bourne, and earned a Master of Education degree from Bridgewater State College. Although he eventually traded teaching for a 20-year career with Prudential Insurance, he remained a strong believer in education, encouraging and supporting his children's academic, athletic and co-curricular pursuits.
In 1961, Lou and Anne purchased the Charlotte Crest Motor Court and began operating it as the Sippewissett Cabins and Campground. Here Lou and Anne permanently settled, making this endeavor their full-time occupation, raising their family, forging bonds with returning guests and hosting many family reunions. Lou loved improving the cabins, surveying the grounds as he traveled on his golf cart, and working the land on his Bobcat. He was deeply committed to the Town of Falmouth serving for many years as a member of the Beach Committee (past Chairman), Chamber of Commerce and AMVETS. In addition, Lou was a Rotarian (past president) and active for many years as a member and past treasurer of the MA Association of Campground Owners (MACO)...

source http://www.legacy.com/obituaries

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Louis A. Tessier, Jr., 89, passed away at his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, after having been recently diagnosed with lung cancer, with his wife, Anne, and children at his side. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/staugustine/obituary.aspx?n=louis-a-tessier&pid=177568949&fhid=4690#sthash.NghE634n.dpuf