Nancy Donais' two home heartbreaks

Nancy Donais and the burnt-out home

Diane Pomerleau

  The home at 571 Honore Beaugrand, pictured at left, is a wreck because last year single mama Nancy Donais neglected to pay her insurance the joint burned down, leaving her and her five kids scrambling for a roof.
  Friends attempted to raise cash to help her fix the place but I'm not confident that succeeded, because the phone line remains disconnected.  
  Now, there's another newer home-related heartbreak involving a Nancy Donais that I'm confident is the same person.
   Nancy Donais' mother Diane Pomerleau was a stripper and escort for many years. She claimed in court documents that she was making a lot of cash money in the sex trade in the mid-90s but at age 53 after disappearing in the east end on January 17 2008.
  Prior to her death, however, Pomerleau launched a lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend Richard Boisvert, with whom she went out between 1987 and 2001.
   Pomerleau said she gave him $40,000 cash - money she earned from the sex trade -  to buy a cottage in Lac Alphonse in 1996.
   After they broke up Pomerleau sued to get the cottage back but on March 28 Superior Court Judge Thomas Davis ruled that Donais - who inherited her dead mom's claim - has no claim to the cottage.
  The judge ruled that the lack of her mom's name on any of documentation made it impossible to reward her the home.