I was born in Seattle, WA in 1958 at Providence Hospital and raised at 4421 Francis Ave in the Phinney Ridge area of Seattle. I attended B. F. Day Elementary School on Fremont Ave from 1964-1965 walking each day from house to school by myself as a 6 year old girl. You could do that in those days. I was strong willed and independent even then. My mother taught me to be courageous and that early formation allowed me to wander and explore my surroundings. This was the beginning of my travels.

In the fall of 1965 I started 1st Grade at St. Benedict's Catholic School in the Wallingford District of Seattle with Sister Pauline and Sister Imelda. I was taught by nuns. Strict and Fair. They gave me a tough education. This has helped me academically and personally all my life. Sister Aimee O.M.I. taught me piano. She was a nun from Poland. Wonderful and small. I think she weighed 90 pounds and smelled of mint. I finished St. Benedict's Parochial school in 1973 and then attended Lincoln High School in the Wallingford District of Seattle from: 1973-1977 graduating with a diploma and worked at Frederick & Nelson Department Store and then Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. before getting married in 1983 to Ray Levesque.

From 1983 onward I had three children with Ray Levesque: Phillip Jordan, Elise Marie and John Paul. His work took us all over from Seattle to Bellevue to Dallas, Texas and back to Seattle. Over those many years I collected Rochon-DesMarais-Levesque stories and put them away in boxes keeping them for each move saying to myself, "one day I will get this organized into a family genealogy." Being a mother and wife and church volunteer kept me busy. The teenage years of my children were hectic and still that thought "I need to get this done" was pushed into the back of my mind each and every time.

After the death of my Grandmother Irene DesMarais Rochon in 2005 at age 103 and my little sister Margaret Mary Moreno in 2008 at age 44 I realized I was losing relatives faster than I could keep up. Preserving their memories in bios and pictures became more of a priority for me. The urgency of preserving all the family history became even more of a priority as I approached the birthday's in September 2013 of my parents Hector A. Rochon and Geraldine Brooks who just turned 93 and 92. Time does run out. People leave and with them the family history. I am grateful to have found Find a Grave to preserve all the history of my family in Canada and the United States.

I was born in Seattle, WA in 1958 at Providence Hospital and raised at 4421 Francis Ave in the Phinney Ridge area of Seattle. I attended B. F. Day Elementary School on Fremont Ave from 1964-1965 walking each day from house to school by myself as a 6 year old girl. You could do that in those days. I was strong willed and independent even then. My mother taught me to be courageous and that early formation allowed me to wander and explore my surroundings. This was the beginning of my travels.

In the fall of 1965 I started 1st Grade at St. Benedict's Catholic School in the Wallingford District of Seattle with Sister Pauline and Sister Imelda. I was taught by nuns. Strict and Fair. They gave me a tough education. This has helped me academically and personally all my life. Sister Aimee O.M.I. taught me piano. She was a nun from Poland. Wonderful and small. I think she weighed 90 pounds and smelled of mint. I finished St. Benedict's Parochial school in 1973 and then attended Lincoln High School in the Wallingford District of Seattle from: 1973-1977 graduating with a diploma and worked at Frederick & Nelson Department Store and then Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. before getting married in 1983 to Ray Levesque.

From 1983 onward I had three children with Ray Levesque: Phillip Jordan, Elise Marie and John Paul. His work took us all over from Seattle to Bellevue to Dallas, Texas and back to Seattle. Over those many years I collected Rochon-DesMarais-Levesque stories and put them away in boxes keeping them for each move saying to myself, "one day I will get this organized into a family genealogy." Being a mother and wife and church volunteer kept me busy. The teenage years of my children were hectic and still that thought "I need to get this done" was pushed into the back of my mind each and every time.

After the death of my Grandmother Irene DesMarais Rochon in 2005 at age 103 and my little sister Margaret Mary Moreno in 2008 at age 44 I realized I was losing relatives faster than I could keep up. Preserving their memories in bios and pictures became more of a priority for me. The urgency of preserving all the family history became even more of a priority as I approached the birthday's in September 2013 of my parents Hector A. Rochon and Geraldine Brooks who just turned 93 and 92. Time does run out. People leave and with them the family history. I am grateful to have found Find a Grave to preserve all the history of my family in Canada and the United States.