Claire Arnelle (Brosseau) Williams, age 82 passed away at Life Care of Sparta Nursing Facility in Tennessee on October 26, 2024, following a long struggle with end-stage COPD.

She was born on February 24, 1942, in Colchester, Vermont to George and Bernadette (Kirby) Brosseau, the eldest of their seven children. She graduated from Winooski High School in 1960 and soon after married Robert Foster and had two daughters and later married Ernest Willams, with whom she had another daughter.

Claire will be most remembered as a loving and dedicated wife, mother, grandmother, daughter and sister. She was always a hard worker at her various jobs as a secretary and capped off her working years as a nurse's aide at Fletcher Allen Heath Care, retiring from that position.

She is survived by her daughters and their spouses/partner Penny (Foster) and Guy Marchessault, Cindy (Foster) and Randy Proulx and Sheri (Williams) Russell and James Latulippe, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her siblings Bob Brosseau and wife Debbie, Donald Brosseau and wife Paulette, Aline Pelkey and Suzanne and her husband Sid Reynolds.

She was predeceased by her husband Ernie Williams, parents George and Bernadette Brosseau, a brother, Richard Brosseau, a sister Annette Minor, a brother-in-law, Tony Pelkey and two infant children, Bobby and Linda Foster.

Special thanks go out to the caring staff at Life Care of Sparta, Everyone there from Amanda at the front desk to Whitney Goins and Amy Wilhite from social work, the nursing staff and the people in the business office, Randy Hood and Julie Franklin were so kind and helpful throughout my mother's time there.

Funeral Services will be held at Lavigne's Funeral Home on November 14th at 10:00 AM followed by interment at St. Francis Xavier Church Cemetery.