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| News - Section/Local “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?” Bob & Janel Lange Any couple fortunate enough to have enjoyed a relationship with Father Greg Boisvert during his more than 25 years of service as a M.E. presenting priest will fondly remember answering phone calls from him, and hearing this wonderful greeting. Although Father Greg stepped down from presenting weekends a couple of years ago, he remained a tremendous champion of Matrimony. On December 16, 2006, Fr. Greg died of complications from treatment for lymphoma. He was a very young 83 years of age, and had continued to be active in priestly ministry up to his last couple of months with us at St. Dominic Parish in Kingsport, TN. Father Greg was born in Rhode Island and joined the Assumptionists at an early age. His early work was as a teacher of physics and religion. Because he was a scientist and fluent in French, he came to Northeast Tennessee more than thirty years ago to work as a translator at Oakridge. East Tennessee was his home for the remainder of his life. From the time of his Deeper Weekend in January of 1980, Fr. Greg was the backbone for Marriage Encounter in East Tennessee. In 1992, he supported the community as it separated from the rest of Tennessee, and became an area along the boundaries of the Diocese of Knoxville. He served on the ecclesial team for the area, as well as in leadership for Section Five. He served for two years with Deacon Bob & Janel Lange as the national coordinators for World Priest Day. Fr. Greg delighted in having presented more than one hundred Weekends across the United States. We have lost a great supporter on earth, but we know he continues to cheer all of us on as we continue in our quest of “The Dream.” Click here for a printable version (PDF, 15KB)
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