Old Missoula

Bourdeau Family Mercantile

Bourdeau Mercantile was located at 833 – 839 S. Higgins in 1923.

Old Time Citizen Is No More

Zachrie Francis Bourdeau died at 10:30 o’clock Monday evening at his home on South Fourth street, after a lingering illness of three years, caused by Leukemia. This is the first death in the immediate family, Mrs. Bourdeau and 14 children surviving to mourn the passing of husband and father. The children are Leonel, Romauld, Dr. Corran L., Albertine, Etha, Leah, Melanise, Lucille, and Mrs. Jasper Belanger in Missoula, Rould and Boyd in Campbell, Neb., Mrs. J. B. Bell in Ronan and Mrs. O. Bell in Polson.

Zachrie Bourdeau was born in Montreal, Canada, February 23, 1858. He was married in 1876 to Mary L. Bourdeau of Montreal. In 1879 they moved to Nebraska, and in 1905 they came to make their home in Missoula. Mr. Bourdeau conducted the Montana Cash grocery for a time, and later a grocery on the south side. His staunch integrity and kindness won him a host of friends during his residence in this city. The funeral will be held Thursday morning. The cortege will leave the house, 516 South Fourth street west, at 9 o’clock, and proceed to the church of St. Francis Xavier, where high mass will be said at 9:30 o’clock. Interment will be in St. Mary’s cemetery.

The above obituary appeared in The Missoulian on November 6, 1912.

Mrs. M. L. Bourdeau Is Taken By Death

Active Church and Social Worker Passes After Long Illness

Death came to Mrs. M. L. Bourdeau late Thursday night in a local hospital, ending a long life of active participation in the social and religious life of Missoula. She had been ill for some time.

Mrs. Bourdeau, who would have been 76 years old Sunday, came to Missoula with her husband and family from Campbell, Neb., in 1905 and has been active in the building up of South side Missoula. The family built the Bourdeau block on the South side and has extensive holdings of residential property. Mr. Bourdeau died 18 years ago.

Surviving sons include Dr. C. L., Lee F., R. Z., and Boyd Bourdeau of Missoula and Rould Bourdeau of Campbell, Neb. The daughters include Mrs. J. O. Bell of Pasco, Wash., Mrs. Julian B. Bell of Ronan, Mrs. S. W. Jarboe of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. J. J. McCarthy of Philadelphia, Mrs. Jess Jones of Renton, Wash, Mrs. Del Harlow of Thompson Falls.

The body is at the Lucy chapel. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but it is expected funeral services will be conducted at St. Anthony’s church, in which Mrs. Bourdeau was actively interested.

The above obituary appeared in The Daily Missoulian on Friday, January 4, 1935.

Dr. Bourdeau, Here Since 1911, Is Dead

Dr. Coran Lewis Bourdeau, 76, of 655 Beverly Ave., died while en route by ambulance to a local hospital early Thursday morning.

Dr. Bourdeau was born May 23, 1885, in Campbell, Neb., and had practiced medicine in Missoula since 1911. He was a graduate of Northwestern Medical School and the Poly Clinic of New York. He completed his internship at Columbus Hospital in Chicago.

He was a member of the College of Surgeons, the Montana Medical Association, Western Montana Medical Association, a charter member of the Missoula Country Club, a member of St. Anthony Parish and a fourth degree Knight of Columbus.

Survivors include his widow, Marjorie Stowe Bourdeau, whom he married Oct. 28, 1927, in Missoula; two brothers, Romauld, Missoula; Boyd, Castro Valley, Calif.; seven sisters, Mrs. Clarice Richards, Missoula; Mrs. Blanche Bell, Seattle; Mrs. Albertine Kiethly, San Francisco; Mrs. Lucille McCarthy, Rumson, N. J.; Mrs. Etha Jaboe, California; Mrs. Melanese Cole, Kent, Wash.; Mrs. Leah Harlow, Redwood City Calif., and several nieces and nephews.

Rosary will be recite at 8 p. m. Friday in St. Anthony Church. Requiem high mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a. m. Saturday in the church with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Denis P. Meade as celebrant. Buriel will be in St. Mary Cemetery under direction of Geraghty Mortuary.

 

The above obituary appeared in The Missoulian on April 6, 1962.

Romauld Z. Bordeau

Romauld Z. Bordeau, 95, 414 Edith St. died Wednesday of natural causes.

Mr. Bordeau was born Dec. 31, 1882, in Campell, Neb. He moved to Missoula with his parents in 1905.

He married Hazel Groleau in Missoula June 18, 1918. He and his brothers ran the Bourdeau Mercantile and Grocery in Missoula. Mr. Bourdeau also worked for Knights of Columbus Council 1021 for many years until his retirement.

He was a member of St. Anthony Church and the Knights of Columbus.

Survivors include a brother, Boyd Bourdeau, Castro Valley, Calif., five sons, Dr. Robert V. Bourdeau, Seattle, Ronald L., Missoula; Leo J., Seattle; James L., Great Falls; and Paul A., Los Angeles; two daughters, Cecilia Poole, Missoula, and Joan Smith, Seattle; three sisters, Etha Jarboe, Saint Petersburg, Fla., Lucille McDarthy, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Leah Harlow, California; two grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p. m. Thursday in St. Anthony Catholic Church. Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a. m. Friday at St. Anthony. Burial will be in St. Mary Cemetery.

The above obituary appeared in The Missoulian on April 13, 1978.

Obituary for Cecelia Poole

Cecelia C. Poole, age 91, of Missoula passed away on Monday, May 19, 2014, at the Springs at Missoula. She was born Oct. 2, 1922, in Missoula one of seven children, two girls and five boys, to Rumald and Hazel Bourdeau. CeCe attended schools in Missoula, growing up kitty-corner from the man who would one day become her husband. After high school CeCe moved to Washington, D.C., to attend business school. After business school CeCe returned to Missoula. Tom Poole also returned to Missoula after serving in the U.S. Navy. The two were married on Dec. 31, 1944, in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and raised their family of five children, two boys and three girls. CeCe managed the couples rentals around the area and was the bookkeeper for her husband’s construction company. Aside from helping her husband CeCe spent years caring for her children. She was told that because she was a stay at home mother, she really didn’t have a job though her children remember her as one of the hardest-working people they have ever known. She was always the first person up in the morning and the last to go to bed at night. She was constantly busy in her role as wife, mother, housekeeper, laundry lady and cook. She put all five of her children through Catholic School, always making sure uniforms were clean and pressed for school. CeCe loved to spend summers at Flathead Lake with her family. She had a great love of swimming and taught that skill to all of her children. Another passion CeCe had was her love of music, especially playing the piano. She shared that love with her children, attempting to teach them all, even the boys, to play.

Her husband had his first stroke in 1990 and began developing Alzheimer’s in 1994. Throughout Tom’s struggles CeCe kept him at home caring for him and also continuing to manage all of the rentals on her own. She continued to manage the rentals until 2005 when she could no longer do so. CeCe moved into the Springs at Missoula in October 2011 where she continued playing the piano and enjoying her love of music. She always stayed active in the Catholic Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas J. Poole Sr. on April 27, 1999. She is now survived by her children, Tom Poole Jr., Barbara (Bill) Kennett, Mike Poole, Mary (Ron) Powell and Cathy (Joe) Vernon; a brother Paul Bourdeau and a sister JoAn Smith; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren also survive.

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 27, at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Missoula with the Rev. Matt Kunkel officiating. Arrangements are under the direction and care of Garden City Funeral Home and Crematory.
Read Cecelia Poole’s Obituary and Guestbook on www.missoulafuneralhomes.com.

The above obituary appeared at the Garden City Funeral Home and Crematory website.

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