Lillian “Dolly” (Bourdon) Forguites O’Donnell passed away on September 4, 2024 at the Center for Extended Care at Amherst, due to a prolonged battle with dementia. She was born July 8, 1934, in Northampton to the late Albert Bourdon and Rose (Bissonette) Bourdon.
Dolly graduated from Northampton High School in 1952 and lived in and around the Northampton area her whole life. She worked in offices around the Northampton area, most recently as Office Manager at Wright Millwork/Wright Builders, retiring in 1995. She also worked part time at the Academy of Music working in the box office and doing bookkeeping for many years starting in high school.
Besides her parents, Dolly was predeceased by her first husband Maximillian Forguites (1970), long time companion Alfred Lampron (2011), and second husband James O’Donnell (2021); and eight of her siblings Mary Ahearn, Ursula Guerrin, Rose Griffin, Louise Costello, Albert Bourdon, Arthur Bourdon, Roy Bourdon, and Raymond Bourdon. She is survived by her daughter Bonnie Scott and her husband Todd Scott of Easthampton, granddaughter Samantha Scott of Southampton, brother Robert Bourdon of Southampton, and many nieces, nephews, extended family members, and friends.
CALLING HOURS AT AHEARN FUNERAL HOME, 783 BRIDGE RD., NORTHAMPTON WILL BE TUESDAY SEP. 10, 2024 FROM 4:00 TO 7:00 P.M.
FUNERAL SERVCIES FOR DOLLY WILL BE WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM THE AHEARN FUENRAL HOME AT 8:45 A.M. WITH A LITURGY OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. ELIZABETH AN SETON CHURCH, 99 KING ST., NORTHAMPTON. Burial will follow in St. Brigid’s Cemetery, Adams St., Easthampton.