Deceased at "Heavens Gate". All members of this cult were found dead. Dressed in black and wearing sneakers, lying in bed, all in rows in some sort of mansion.
Cremated; Cremains buried next to her father, Jules H. LaMontagne.
Article headline:
Ex-Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne] was Heaven's Gate Suicide victim
Date of article: 3/29/97
Page, section, column: 1A1 + picture
Subject: SUICIDE; CITIZENS
Las Cruces Sun-News Index
Article headline:
Little known about former Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne]
Date of article: 3/30/97
Page, section, column: 1A2 + picture
Subject: CITIZENS; SUICIDE
Julie LaMontagne 45, nurse
Raised by a foster family, LaMontagne spent much of her childhood studying and eventually got her nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude in 1974. Shortly afterward she saw her best friend drown and her birth father, Jules, with whom she had remained close, die of cancer. The deaths "just made her collapse," says her brother Andrew. "We could never get her back after that." She drifted through a series of New England communes until she stumbled on Heaven's Gate in the late '70s. She soon became Applewhite's personal nurse.
Brother, Andrew LaMontagne-Memorial # 42026953
Cremated; Cremains buried next to her father, Jules H. LaMontagne.
Article headline:
Ex-Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne] was Heaven's Gate Suicide victim
Date of article: 3/29/97
Page, section, column: 1A1 + picture
Subject: SUICIDE; CITIZENS
Las Cruces Sun-News Index
Article headline:
Little known about former Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne]
Date of article: 3/30/97
Page, section, column: 1A2 + picture
Subject: CITIZENS; SUICIDE
Julie LaMontagne 45, nurse
Raised by a foster family, LaMontagne spent much of her childhood studying and eventually got her nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude in 1974. Shortly afterward she saw her best friend drown and her birth father, Jules, with whom she had remained close, die of cancer. The deaths "just made her collapse," says her brother Andrew. "We could never get her back after that." She drifted through a series of New England communes until she stumbled on Heaven's Gate in the late '70s. She soon became Applewhite's personal nurse.
Brother, Andrew LaMontagne-Memorial # 42026953
Deceased at "Heavens Gate". All members of this cult were found dead. Dressed in black and wearing sneakers, lying in bed, all in rows in some sort of mansion.
Cremated; Cremains buried next to her father, Jules H. LaMontagne.
Article headline:
Ex-Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne] was Heaven's Gate Suicide victim
Date of article: 3/29/97
Page, section, column: 1A1 + picture
Subject: SUICIDE; CITIZENS
Las Cruces Sun-News Index
Article headline:
Little known about former Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne]
Date of article: 3/30/97
Page, section, column: 1A2 + picture
Subject: CITIZENS; SUICIDE
Julie LaMontagne 45, nurse
Raised by a foster family, LaMontagne spent much of her childhood studying and eventually got her nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude in 1974. Shortly afterward she saw her best friend drown and her birth father, Jules, with whom she had remained close, die of cancer. The deaths "just made her collapse," says her brother Andrew. "We could never get her back after that." She drifted through a series of New England communes until she stumbled on Heaven's Gate in the late '70s. She soon became Applewhite's personal nurse.
Brother, Andrew LaMontagne-Memorial # 42026953
Cremated; Cremains buried next to her father, Jules H. LaMontagne.
Article headline:
Ex-Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne] was Heaven's Gate Suicide victim
Date of article: 3/29/97
Page, section, column: 1A1 + picture
Subject: SUICIDE; CITIZENS
Las Cruces Sun-News Index
Article headline:
Little known about former Las Cruces resident [Julie Elmira LaMontagne]
Date of article: 3/30/97
Page, section, column: 1A2 + picture
Subject: CITIZENS; SUICIDE
Julie LaMontagne 45, nurse
Raised by a foster family, LaMontagne spent much of her childhood studying and eventually got her nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude in 1974. Shortly afterward she saw her best friend drown and her birth father, Jules, with whom she had remained close, die of cancer. The deaths "just made her collapse," says her brother Andrew. "We could never get her back after that." She drifted through a series of New England communes until she stumbled on Heaven's Gate in the late '70s. She soon became Applewhite's personal nurse.
Brother, Andrew LaMontagne-Memorial # 42026953
Inscription
Black marble marker with praying hands on the left bottom and 2 roses on stems to the right top. Left top has a small cross and the right bottom has written, "Deceased at Heavens Gate".
Flat marker;
Julie Elmira LaMontagne
Nov. 26, 1951
Mar. 26, 1997
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