BIDDEFORD — Sister Simonne Doucette, formerly known as Sr. St. Berthold, died at St. Joseph Convent on Dec. 28, at the age of 92.

Simonne was the fifth in a family of eight children born to Paul Doucette and Clara Levasseur. Simonne was born on July 24, 1922 in Hamlin.

She received her elementary education in her native town. After completing her high school education, she later earned a certificate in religious education, and after two years of special studies, earned a certificate as a childcare worker and one in woodworking from the University of Ottawa.

Simonne entered the Congregation of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, also known as the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, in Biddeford. After her initial training in religious life, Sr. Simonne began her long career in education as a teacher and/or a teacher’s aide, mostly at St. Ann’s Orphanage in Methuen, Massachusetts, St. Ann School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and St. Joseph School in Biddeford. While teaching at St. Ann’s Orphanage, she was also housemother to a group of boys for 17 years. After school, she taught these boys, in groups of four or five, in the use of small tools and wood crafting.

When Sr. Simonne retired from fulltime teaching, she became local superior in several houses for a period of 15 years. When she returned to Bay View, she became coordinator of the gift shop for five years. In 2004, because of illness, she was transferred to St. Joseph Pavilion, where she continued to use her skills for the Bay View Gift Shop.

Survivors are: two brothers, Eli Doucette from Simsbury, Connecticut and Roland Doucette from Dayville, Connecticut; and several nieces and nephews.

Visiting hours will be held at St. Joseph Convent, 409 Pool St., Biddeford, on Monday, Dec. 29 from 6-8 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 30 from 9-10:45 a.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at St. Joseph Convent on Tuesday, Dec. 30 at 11 a.m. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery. To share condolences online, visit www.hopememorial.com.