Phyllis Redecha

Phyllis Angela Redecha, age 102 of Pont du Marais Boarding Home, Lower West Pubnico, died August 23, 2021 in Yarmouth Regional Hospital.  Born in Lower West Pubnico, March 24, 1919, she was a daughter of the late Theodore Pierre and Annie Sarah (Barteaux) d’Entremont.  She is survived by her daughter Tina (James F) Moscowitz, Sherman CT.  She was predeceased by her husband John Paul Redecha, her son John Paul Redecha Jr., brothers; Craig, Andrew and John, sisters; Alvina, Isabelle, Ella, Rena and Francetta.  She was a member of Les Acadiennes de la Région d’Argyle and also a member of the American Legion.  The funeral service will be by invitation only and will be held Friday August 27, 2021 at 2pm in the West Pubnico Funeral Home, Middle West Pubnico with Fr Cyrille Assihou officiating.  COVID-19 regulations will be followed. On line condolences may be forwarded to the family at westpubnicofh.com.  The funeral in under the care and direction of the West Pubnico Funeral Home, Middle West Pubnico.  902 762-3407.

Phyllis d’Entremont Redecha was born in Lower West Pubnico, left when she was 18, returned when she was 97 and died a few hundred yards from where she started over 102 years before. In the intervening years she married, had two children and created a famous interior design work-room in New York City called The Acadian Collection. She worked until she was in her late 80s and only stopped when she moved to California to be closer to her daughter and son-in-law. But there’s no place like home and so she returned to Lower West Pubnico and lived there in great good health and happiness for over five years. 

We mourn her passing but we rejoice in the absolutely remarkable life that she lived. Rest in peace, Phyllis.