ELDA A. GELINAS - North Smithfield orbit
ELDA A. GELINAS - North Smithfield
01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, October 19, 2003
ELDA A. GELINAS, 86, of 400 Mendon Rd., a retired loan officer, died yesterday at the home of her daughter Louise E. Lanoie of North Smithfield.
She was the wife of the late Lionel A. Gelinas. Born in Woonsocket, a daughter of the late John T. and Emma M. (Valois) Whelan, she had lived in Lincoln before moving to North Smithfield last year.
Mrs. Gelinas had been a loan officer at National Finance for 35 years before retiring in 1980.
Besides her daughter Louise, she leaves a son, Roger A. Gelinas of Cumberland; another daughter, Suzanne M. Gautreau of Woonsocket; and seven grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 8:45 a.m. from Holt Funeral Home, 510 South Main St., with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 in St. Ambrose Church, School Street, Lincoln. Burial will be in Precious Blood Cemetery, Woonsocket.