Angela Helen Lucien

Born Jan. 10, 1950, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings, to the late Kenneth P. Lucien, Sr. and Mary Jeanne Lucien, she was their first daughter and second of three children.

Angela “Angie” grew up in Billings where she went to Fratt Memorial Grade School (St. Francis) and graduated from Billings Central High School. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a Master’s in Fine Art and was a lifelong member of the Chi Omega Sorority. After completing her Master’s degree, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she lived for 35 years, the last 25 of which in Salem, Massachusetts. In Boston, she took the National Council of Architectural Boards (NCARB) to become an architect. She worked for over 30 years with the architecture firm, Shepley Bulfinch, a leading national design firm. Her specialty was hospital design.

Angela loved Boston and New England. Her hobbies were working on her spectacular garden, sailing in the Massachusetts Bay and Nantucket Sound and refurbishing her Victorian home overlooking the bay.

After Angela retired, her sister, Janie, sent her a black toy poodle from England. He was named Andrew from a litter of three boys, Andrew, Lloyd, and Weber. She called him Angela’s Angel Boy. She adored Andrew. He went everywhere with her and was at her side to the end. In 2015, Angela moved to Fort Myers, Florida. She loved her new home there overlooking a lake full of wildlife and a golf course and was in the process of remodeling it when she died.

Angela was a devout Catholic with a deep and abiding faith. She was baptized at St. Patrick’s Co-Cathedral where she also received her First Communion and Confirmation. While in Billings, she was a parishioner at St. Patrick’s Co-Cathedral for over twenty years and she still kept in touch with numerous clergy from St. Patrick’s. She was a member of St. Anne’s Parish in Salem, Massachusetts, and St. John XXIII Parish in Fort Myers, Florida.

Like her parents, Angela loved the Hilands Golf Club in Billings, where she learned to play golf as a child and always stopped by whenever she was in town. She traveled throughout the world during her life but she was a patriotic American and thought there was no place in the world like America. Angela was a gifted artist, resourceful, independent and highly organized. She could turn her hand to virtually anything and her interests were many and varied. She enjoyed iron working, photography, oil painting, woodworking, and gardening and she was a gourmet cook. She loved to fish having grown up fishing Montana Rivers in the Rocky Mountains with her father who was an avid trout fisherman. She was loyal, sentimental and kind. She loved animals. Through her late parent’s elderly years, she devoted herself to their care.

Angela is predeceased by her parents, Kenneth P. “Kenney” Sr., and Mary Jeanne Lucien and her brother, Kenneth P. “Mickey” Jr. She is survived by her sister, Jane (Robert Scholle) of Scottsdale, Arizona, her beloved nieces Katherine, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Juliana of Tempe, Arizona, and her nephew, Robert of Salt Lake City, Utah.

She leaves behind her dearest cousins Mary Jeanne Haumesser of Billings and Marilyn Card (Mike) of Sheridan, Wyoming and lifelong friends that go back to her childhood days in Billings.

A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Patrick Co-Cathedral on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 10 a.m. Burial will be alongside her brother, parents and maternal grandparents at Yellowstone Valley Memorial Park in the family plot she designed. Michelotti-Sawyers has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Memorials in Angela’s name may be made to Catholic Relief Services.