West Berkshire - Norene Mildred (Curran) (Blair) Poulin, 71, passed away on Saturday, December 14, 2013 at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington.
Norene was born on January 30, 1942 in Burlington, the daughter of Maurice R. and Edna L. (Baker) Curran. She was a graduate of the University of Vermont with a degree in Nursing.
As a registered nurse, Norene worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at FAHC and, later, as the evening charge nurse at Dumont Convalescent Center in Morrisville. Following her retirement from nursing she became a home knitter.
Norene was a member of the Kingdom of Jehovahs Witness. She was a ham radio operator and a member of the Systemic Lupis Foundation. She especially enjoyed knitting, weaving, jewelry making, hunting and fishing. Norene was also a published poet.
Surviving are her children, Arnold D. Blair and his wife Gwen of Huntington and Carlene A. Blair of Enosburg Falls; children who were raised by Norene, Robert Blair of VT and Jeanette Shaw of CA; 4 grandchildren, Bradley Blair-Thibault, Richard Charles Adams, Arnold Alexander Blair and Corey Mitchell Blair; and a brother Daryl Curran of Johnson. Norene was predeceased by her first husband, Arnold C. Blair.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 21, 2013 at 2:00 PM at the Spears Funeral Home, 96 Dickinson Ave. in Enosburg Falls. Interment will take place at the convenience of Norenes family in the Lamoille View Cemetery in Johnson. Friends are invited to call at the funeral home on Saturday from 12:00 PM until the time of the service.
Should friends desire, gifts in Norenes memory may be made to the Lupis Foundation of America, VT Chapter, PO Box 115, Waterbury, VT 05676-0115.