Rollande Leizerman Obituary

Rollande (Lafontaine) Leizerman

May 26, 1924 - Mar 23, 2024

Norwalk

Rollande Rose Madeline (Lafontaine) Leizerman passed away peacefully with her family at her side Saturday, March 23, 2024.

She was born May 26, 1924, in St. Cyprien, de Dorchester, Quebec, to Antoinette and Joseph Lafontaine. Rollande grew up in nearby St. Justine and moved to Montreal in the 1940s, where she met her beloved Issie Leizerman, the two marrying in 1955. Children followed with Jack in 1957 and Suzanne in 1959.

These four Canucks moved to the U.S. in 1965, settling in Temperance, Michigan, where Rollande and Issie lived for 30 years. Rollande worked at St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center for many years as a unit clerk and senior clerk, where she was known as Rose and loved by all.

After retirement, she and Issie relocated to Florida and enjoyed many years of sun and friendship. After Issie passed in 2013, Rollande moved back to Norwalk, where she lived with daughter, Suzanne, and son-in-law, Lyle, for the final decade of her life.

Many in her family were, like Rollande, chefs par excellence and she was incapable of cooking a bad meal. She learned to drive in her 40s and took up watercolors in retirement. She enjoyed bridge and cards games of all types and was also an avid swimmer.

She is survived by her brothers, Georges and Marcel; children, Jack (Anne Seguin) and Suzanne (Lyle) Fisher; grandchildren, Matthew Fisher, Melissa "The Boss" (Dustin) Beal, Julie (Dre) Harris, Peter (Katt) Fisher, and Jacqueline and Benjamin Leizerman; great-grandchildren, Lynn and Everett Beal and Juniper and Maple Fisher; and many loving nieces, nephews, and friends.

Rollande held her faith and family most dearly and she was preceded in death by her loving husband, Issie; parents; brothers, Philippe and Gregoire; sisters, Margot, Francoise, Mary Paule, Pierette, and a sister who died in infancy (also named Mary Paule); and several dear nieces and nephews.

Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 19, 2024, at St. Mary Mother of the Redeemer Catholic Church, 38 League Street, Norwalk, Ohio, 44857. All are invited. The service will be live-streamed for those who are unable to attend in person. Please go to https://stmarynorwalk.org/ and look for the live-stream links to Facebook or Youtube, which will begin five minutes before the service.

The family wishes to thank the staff of Fisher Titus Medical Center and Southern Care Hospice for their kind care.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to charity of your choice.

Online memories and expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.walkereastmanheydingerfh.com.