GAUTHIER, Pauline J.

Today's News-Herald, Lake Havasu City, AZ >>> Published on Sunday, March 19, 2017 <<< Pauline J. Gauthier, 86, of Lake Havasu City passed away Feb. 20, 2017 with her family by her side. She was born to the late Albert and Mathilda Arsenault on Feb. 16, 1931 in Berlin, New Hampshire. Pauline graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1949. She married Gerard E. Gauthier in 1949, and they lived together in New Hampshire for 51 years before retiring to Lake Havasu City. Pauline was a homemaker for 21 years. She then entered the work force working in accounting until retiring in 1993. She was passionate about family and helping others, involved in her church, and spread her love for Jesus throughout her community, wherever she lived. She singlehandedly created a ministry knitting prayer shawls for the sick or terminally ill. For those attending Pauline’s funeral, we ask that you bring your shawl to honor her ministry. Pauline is survived by her husband Gerard E. Gauthier of Lake Havasu City, six children: Georges Gauthier of Bethlehem, Pa., Monique Savage of Merrimack, N.H., Paulette Godbout of Las Vegas, Susanne Gauthier of Vallejo, Calif., Pauline Roy of Nashua, N.H. and Paul Gauthier of Gilford, N.H. She is also survived by three grandchildren, five step-grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A viewing is at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, at Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home. Funeral mass is at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 23. Burial is immediately following at Lake Havasu Memorial Gardens, as well as a funeral reception in the Holy Angels Parish Hall. Services were placed in the care of Lietz-Fraze Funeral Home. Thoughts and condolences can be sent to the Gauthier family at www.lietz-frazefuneralhome.com.