Marie-Blanche Godbout

Marie-Blanche Godbout was born of Joseph Godbout and Marie-Blanche Pichette on 6th June 1911. She married Paul Plamondon on 2nd July 1938 and mothered Denise (1939), Louisette (1940), Jacques (1941), Fernand (1942), Jean-Paul (1942), Micheline (1943), Raymond (1946), a still-born boy (1949), and Nicole (1950) Plamondon. She died 2nd June 1990.

Early life
The family consisted of Marie-Blanche, her sister Carmen, two small brothers, and her parents. When she was very small her father had taken his family to live in Abitibi, Québec, then being settled. Her father died of the Spanish Flu around the time of the epidemic of 1918. He had felt ill and left on the train to seek medical attention in Quebec City where he died soon after, at almost the same time his two little sons died of the flu in Abitibi.

Marie-Blanche then returned with her mother and sister to live with her maternal grandparents in Quebec City. They lived with her grandparents and two uncles in a tiny little house in Quebec City's lower town. (The house had been built by her grandfather. One day he found a gold coin in the street which he handed in to the local priest, the Catholic Church having a great deal of authority in all aspects of people's lives at that time. The priest said that if nobody claimed the coin within one year, he could have it back. As nobody did claim it, it was returned to him and he used it to begin building his little house. His granddaughter, Marie-Blanche's mother, lived in the house for the rest of her life.)

Marriage
Marie-Blanche married 27-year-old Paul Plamondon at the age of 27, on 2nd July 1938. She was a pretty and popular city girl, and found life on the farm very difficult, particularly with her many childbirths and her husband's long absences as a traveling salesman.