Diane M. Rivard

Diane M. (Cote) Rivard, 80, passed away on March 10, 2023. She was born in Collinsville, CT on June 9, 1942, the daughter of the late Ernest and Bertha (Turcotte) Cote.
Diane was a Certified Nursing Assistant at Baystate Medical Center for thirty years. She will be remembered as a kind and gentle person who was all about her family, who lived for her children, grandchildren and loved animals.
She is survived by her daughter Beth Kane of Ware, MA, with whom she lived and her brother Paul Cote of Monson, MA. She will be sadly missed by five grandchildren: Brittany Chaplin, Michaela Chaplin, Joslyn Chaplin, Hunter Chaplin, Kyle Kane and great grandchild Josephine Ann-Marie Chaplin.
Sadly, she was predeceased by her husband Robert Rivard, her daughter Kathleen Chaplin and her brother Robert Cote.
New England Funeral &  Cremation Center, LLC, 25 Mill Street, Springfield, MA has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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