Annie LeClere

ANNIE LECLERE

Hopkinton

Annie LeClere, 76, of Hopkinton, died Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015, at her home, surrounded by her family, after an extended illness.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Hopkinton Community Church. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. Cheryl Gates will officiate at the services. Interment will be in the Hopkinton Cemetery. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving are four children, Jean (Greg) Dirks and Judy (Don Scherrer) Chapman, both of Monticello, Chuck LeClere, Denver, Colo., and Paul LeClere, Hopkinton; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and her sister, Ilse Malsy in Germany. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene; two brothers; and a brother-in-law.

Annie Kapffer was born Nov. 1, 1938, at Wiesbaden, Germany. She was the daughter of Paul and Wilhimne Kapffer. Annie met her husband, Eugene, when he was stationed in Germany in 1956. The couple married on Feb. 15, 1958. Eugene died on their 56th anniversary last year. Eugene and Annie lived in Hawaii, Virginia and California before his last station with the Air Force at Omaha, Neb., in 1972. Annie and Eugene moved the family to Hopkinton in 1972 and Eugene commuted to base until he retired in 1976. Annie had worked at a group home in Hawaii and at Lux Pullets in Hopkinton and operated Annie's Ceramics for a number of years in Hopkinton. In 1989 she became a citizen of the United States of America.

Annie had been a member of the Hopkinton Presbyterian Church. She also belonged to the Delaware County Historical Society, helped at senior meals and helped organize the street flag display in Hopkinton. She was an avid nutcracker collector.