Eunice LaPlante
Active member of the Revere Senior Center, the Patriots Civic Club, the Everett Senior Center, and a proud member of “The Red Hats.”
Family and friends are respectfully invited to attend a Memorial Visitation on Saturday, May17th from 9 to 10:30 a.m., in the Vertuccio Smith & Vazza, Beechwood Home for Funerals, 262 Beach St., Revere for Eunice R. (Goldspring) LaPlante, who passed away on Wednesday, May 7th surrounded by her family at the North End Rehabilitation in Boston, following a long illness. She was 90 years old. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church, 250 Revere St., Revere. Interment will be private.
Eunice was born on March 12, 1935 in Cambridge to her late parents, Edward and
Audrey (O’Brien) Goldspring. She, along with her six siblings, were raised in Warren, MA. She was educated in Warren and was a graduate of Warren High School, Class of 1953. Following high school, she attended Massachusetts College of Art for two years.
She later married and had two children, her daughter, Kathleen and son, Edward.
She and her children resided in the Jeffries Point section of East Boston. She proudly raised her children as a single mother while working full time. Eunice began working at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, later becoming the Vice President of the Mailing Department. Her career spanned over four decades and she made many lifelong friendships there.
Eunice had many close friends from her neighborhood and then moved to Revere, 16 years ago. She was an active member of the Revere Senior Center, the Patriots Civic Club, the Everett Senior Center, and was a proud member of “The Red Hats.” Above all else, she loved her family and cherished many wonderful memories they shared together.
She was the loving mother of Kathleen M. Shindledecker and her husband, Frank, of East Boston and Edward A. LaPlante and his wife, Elisa of Revere; the cherished sister of the late Mary Dufrene, Francis Goldspring, Edward Goldspring, Arlene Norman, Audrey Long and Joseph H. Goldspring and she is also lovingly survived by many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Please OMIT Flowers. You can make a donation in Eunice’s name to: “The Wounded Warrior Project,” P.O. Box 758516, Topeka, KS 66675-8516 or “The Home for Little Wanderers,” c/o Development Department, 72 E. Dedham Street, Boston, MA 02118.
To send online condolences, please visit www.vertucciosmithvazza.com. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care and direction of the Vertuccio Smith & Vazza, Beechwood Home for Funerals, Revere.