She was born in Lowell on April 21, 1929, a daughter of the late Edward and Emelie (Allard) Cormier. She received her early education in the Ste. Jeanne d'Arc School in Lowell and graduated from St. Louis Academy High School in 1946. She later graduated from Lowell Academy of Hair Dressing.Mrs. Ste. Marie was a hairdresser with the Lowell Academy for many years. She was also employed with the former Electro Circuits in Lowell for 24 years.She was a communicant of Ste. Therese Church in Dracut.She is survived by two daughters, Janice E. and her husband Richard Lemoine of Tyngsboro and Ruth A. Ste. Marie of Dracut; a son, Raymond L. Ste. Marie of Stewart, Fla.; seven grandchildren, Kiersten and Brianne Lemoine and Jennifer Magliozzi and her husband Ronald, Rebecca, Timothy, Nicholas and Peter Moore; four brothers and three sisters-in-law, the Rev. Leo G. Cormier, Carolyn Cormier and Alfred Cormier, all of Dracut, George and Mary Cormier, and Edward and Loraine Cormier, all of Lowell; five sisters and two brothers-in-law, Ann Walters, Alice Page, Irene and Emile Ste. Marie, all of Lowell, Ruth Shaw of Dracut, Lucille and Richard Cayer, residing in Florida; and several nieces and nephews.Mrs. Ste. Marie was also the sister of the late Charlie, Frank and Robert Cormier.