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Cecile Marie Gallagher November 15, 1931 - July 7, 2019 Cecile Gallagher (née Rossignol), of San Antonio, Texas, died July 7, 2019. Cecile was born November 15, 1931 in Saint-Hilaire, New Brunswick, one of Canada’s Atlantic provinces, to Denis Rossignol and Edna St. Amand. Her childhood was a happy one, spent with doting parents and grandparents, as well as eight siblings she loved dearly. She reminisced often of the simple pleasures they enjoyed: picking fresh garden vegetables for the family’s meals; the aroma of her mother’s baked bread and pies; outings with her father to tap the sweet, amber syrup of their maple trees. Cecile left school early to help care for twin brothers born when she was 12 years old, an experience that shaped her future as both wife and mother. In 1952, Cecile met Bill Gallagher, a handsome U.S. serviceman from Bennington, Vermont. With little concern for the French-English language barrier, the two fell in love, married, and started a family. Never forgetting her French Canadian roots, Cecile became a proud U.S. citizen, military wife, mother of eight children, and homemaker. Bill’s career in the U.S. Air Force placed great demands on her as a wife and mother, requiring that she manage her large family’s frequent re-locations (to two foreign countries and six U.S. states), and to endure long periods of her husband’s absence as he was deployed in the Vietnam War and later sent on Temporary Duty assignments. As her children grew and life eventually began to settle, she relished the chance to work outside the home: Over the years, she worked as a dental assistant and as a clerk in women’s retail clothing and jewelry. She made lifelong friends along the way. The arrival of grandchildren and great grandchildren helped fill her years with both purpose and joy. When her adult children fell on tough times, she was a source of support and strength to them and their children. As recently as 2017, the birth of her youngest great grandchild ensured that even her final weeks of life would be blessed with moments of great delight. Cecile was preceded in death by her husband, William J. Gallagher; her son, Michael Gallagher; daughter, Teresa Gallagher; brothers, Rino, Camil, Hermel, Jean and Jeannot Rossignol; and sisters Yolande Grondin and Claudette Rossignol. She is survived by daughters, Lorraine Gallagher, Carol Gallagher, and Kathleen Gallagher and her husband, Rhodney Williams; sons, John-Marc Gallagher and his wife Janice, Bill Gallagher and his wife Katherine, and Kevin Gallagher; daughter-in-law, Gail Gallagher; sister, Rachel Michaud of Québec, Canada; grandchildren, Isla Leigh Henley, Natalie and Seth Cone, William and Dominique Gonzales, Abigail, Kaden and Olivia Gallagher, Aurianna Logan, and Mark Anthony Gallagher; great-grandchildren Dylan and Jacob Henley, Fela White, and Olivia Grace Jeanise. She leaves behind many nieces and nephews she loved as well.