Fabien R Regimbal (1853-1928) - Find a Grave Memorial

Fabien R Regimbal

Birth

21 Jul 1853

Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, Monteregie Region, Quebec, Canada

Death

2 May 1928 (aged 74)

Moxee City, Yakima County, Washington, USA

Burial

Holy Rosary Cemetery

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A note about his tombstone birth date inscription. July 22, 1853 was his baptismal date, recorded in the parish register of the church at St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Quebec, where-in followed the words "né la veille", which meant he was born the day before.

Attending his baptism were his godparents, François Vachon and Emilie Séguin.

Fabien was the thirteenth child of Pierre Régimbal dit Jérôme (1806-1873) and Marie-Scholastique Payet dite St-Amour (1812-1887).

He and Salome LaBerge (1857-1938) were married in St-Louis-de-Gonzague on January 27, 1875. The couple moved to Minnesota with their four children in 1882.

His brothers Peter, Joseph, Frank, Mose and Charles; their families and their widowed mother, Scholastique, all departed Canada with him. His sisters, Emilie and Lucie remained in Quebec.

In Gentilly and in Crookston, Minnesota, he went by his grandfather's name, Jerome.

There, seven more children were born to the couple. In 1897, he and his family migrated to the Yakima Valley in Washington State.

He was there known as Fabien Regimbal. The couple's last three children were born in Moxee City, a few miles east of Yakima.

Fabien was a farmer, a carpenter and a grocer; owner of F. Regimbal & Son Grocery on Yakima Avenue in Yakima from 1910 to 1918.

Their 14 children were Marie Sara 'Sarah' (1875-1913), Louis Fabien (1877-1949), Edmond Francois (1880-1966), Marie Denise Olivine aka Sister Ethelreda (1881-1959), Marie Mable Desneige aka Sister Joanna (1883-1969), Francis Xavier (1885-1962), Joseph Ernest (1887-1965), Marie Ann Salome 'Mamie' (1889-1963), Joseph Adolphe Clement aka Father Clement Regimbal (1891-1933), Joseph Armand Donat (1893-1928), Marie Emelie Lorie (1895-1992), Marie Henriette 'Stella' (1898-?), Pierre 'Peter' Aime (1900-1946), and Olympe Marie (1902-1989).

After his death in 1928, he was buried at Holy Rosary Cemetery, Moxee City, Yakima County, Washington.

His first born, Sara, who married Hilaire Fortier in Crookston, Minnesota in 1895, was my great grandmother. -M Fortier