Friday, December 5, 2014 7:43 am

ROCHESTER - Ellen M. Daigle, 56, died Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at the Riverside Rest Home, Dover, after a period of failing health.

Ellen was born in Tachikawa, Japan on May 16, 1958, the daughter of Leonard and Dorothy (Murphy) Daigle and lived most of her life in Rochester. She was a 1976 graduate of Spaulding High School and prior to her illness she worked as a home health care worker. Ellen loved her family and animals. She was predeceased by her mother who died in 2009 and by a sister Nannette Boudrius who died in 1995.

Surviving members of the family include: her father, Leonard Daigle of Rochester, one son, Heath Gray, Somersworth, one granddaughter, Lillian Gray, three sisters, Michelle Trudeau of Florida, Julie Findley of Bedford, and Laura Thomas of Rochester, and several nieces, nephews and cousins.