Alice H. Rondeau, 88, of Newport died peacefully on December 13, 2022 at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, MA.

She was born to Alick and Eugenie (Potwin) Hebert, the 5 ^th of six children, and she grew up in Burlington, VT.  She graduated from Cathedral High School in Burlington, in 1952.

On August 21, 1954, she married Bernard Rondeau, and they lived and raised their family primarily in Newport, VT.

Mrs. Rondeau worked in the U.S. Customs office in Newport, as a secretary in a dental office, and retired as the office manager at Newport's State of Vermont Social Welfare office after more than 25 years.  She was a member of St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Newport.  She was an avid walker and an avid square dancer for 28 years, and she greatly enjoyed all of the traveling she and her husband were able to do.  She also enjoyed many crafts: sewing, knitting, crocheting, rug braiding, and especially, quilting.

She is survived by her three children: Catherine Comtois and her husband, Richard of Dunnellon, FL and Derby Line, VT, Deborah Cormier and her husband, Mark of Worcester, MA, and Stephen Rondeau and his wife, Sheri of Beaver, WA; nine grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; her sister, Ruth Boivin, of Burlington, VT,   her sisters-in-law: Judith Hebert of Montpelier, VT and Sr. Lucienne Rondeau of Biddeford, ME, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by Bernard, her husband of 59 years, by her parents, two sisters: Sr. Helen Hebert, SSJ, and Doris Desroches and by her two brothers, Paul Hebert and Peter Hebert.

A funeral Mass will be held at 12 pm on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Newport.  There are no calling hours, and the family requests no flowers.

Should family and friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to a charity of their choice. Online condolences may be made at curtis-britch.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch & Bouffard Funeral Home & Cremation Service, locally family owned and operated.