Carmel Trepanier ... enjoyed knitting: at 91

ROCHESTER - Carmel Trepanier, 91, died Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at her home in Rochester, after a long period of failing health.

Carmel was born on the family farm in East Broughton QC, Canada, on Dec. 18, 1931, the daughter of Arthur and Ernestine (Roy) Faucher and had been living in Rochester since emigrating from Canada in 1960.

She was an active member of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary where she was a communicant and formerly served as a Eucharistic Minister. She was also a longtime member of Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) of the St Michael and the Nine Choirs of Angels, and a longtime member of the Saint Anne Sodality. She founded the "Tuesday Afternoon Mission Workshop" making various items for the Mother Theresa of Calcutta Missions in Haiti.

Prior to her retirement, she held several jobs including teacher, store clerk, home daycare provider, food preparation, caretaker, and not the least a great homemaker. Carmel loved people, plants, flowers, birds, and the large variety of animals which passed through the household including her current cats. Her favorite pastime was knitting, which she called her "therapy". She routinely made sleepers of various sizes, blankets, hats and booties for children, prayer shawls and lap robes for the elderly. These were often gifted during the holiday season.

Carmel was predeceased by her husband of 57 years Claude Trepanier.

Surviving members of the family include: four sons and one daughter, Mario Trepanier and his wife Kim, John Trepanier and his wife Terri, Guy Trepanier, Claire Trepanier and her partner Dave Gagne and Marc Trepanier and his wife SallyAnn. She also leaves nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren, Ryan Trepanier and his wife Brandie and their children Lucas and Thomas, Eric Trepanier and his wife Jessica and his daughters Elise and Jaedyn, Michael Trepanier and his wife Tonia and their daughters, Cali, Rosslyn, and Karlee, Daniel Trepanier and his wife Courtney and their daughters Brynn and Ashlynn, Andrew Trepanier and his partner Rachal Sivinski and their son Etienne, Amy Chisholm and her husband Cody and their boys Finnegan and Wyatt, Amanda Turner and her husband Jason, Melissa Trepanier and her husband Ryan Moss and their son Milo, and Jacob Trepanier, as well as several nieces, nephews and cousins.