Dr. Jean Michel Losier

September 9, 1946 – November 8, 2023



Our beautiful father passed away on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. We will miss him always and love him eternally.



Dr. Jean Michel Losier was a good man who with smiling eyes and a sincere heart relished in the conversations that followed his cordial greetings of old and new friends alike. He was formal and respectful. He loved to know people, about their histories and their aspirations. He was inspired by their diversities. Drawn to what he identified as common between them, the love and determination for their families. His kindness flourished from the enormity of his empathy. He loved to follow politics and current events from around the world. He loved music and the nostalgia and wonder they inspired.



Dr. Losier valued discipline and dedication to learning in the belief that they promised the foundation of a better character with which to build secure and happy lives. He was the patriarch of our family who supported the arch between generations. He savored the quiet and tranquility of day-to-day life, his memories and the traditions he experienced as a son, father and grandfather. He felt blessed by the warmth of the water and heat of the sun on the beaches he remembered fondly during his childhood in Haiti and graduate schooling in Mexico. Our father loved his family and loved his home. His integrity was beyond measure. He respected all people and creatures. He was humble. He was so loved.



Our father was born in Pétion-Ville, Haïti on September 9, 1946 to his parents Pierre Victor Losier from Les Cayes-St. Jean and Telcida Sylvestre Losier of Dame-Marie, Grand’Anse to whom he remained forever grateful for her dedication to him and his siblings, particularly for her determination, as an entrepreneur, to support his education. He obtained an International Baccalaureate before moving in 1968 to New York where he attended college and soon after undertook the formalities to reunite his parents and siblings in a new home in Nyack. Our father remained a studious man, reading often and continuously learning. He was fluent in four languages and conversant in others.



While in Medical School, our father met and married a doctoral student in Physics, Enriqueta (née Gonzalez), who settled with him in Nyack. She was his loving wife of 45-years. She will miss him enormously. Together, they had two children, Marlène Michlèle and Jean Michel. We adored our father. He is survived also by his son-in-law, Luca, and his grandchildren, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Francesco, Sofia and Clara all whom he enjoyed and loved dearly.



Our father was predeceased in his youth by his eldest sibling, Marie Edith, who he remembered always. With his passing, a profound void is felt by his surviving sisters: Marlene, Irmagella and Marie Misna; his brothers: Picard, Jean Sony and Nixon; and his cousin Francine. He will be remembered with kindness by his brothers-in-law: Antonio, Eduardo (D), Arturo, Daniel, Flaubert and Boniface; and by his sisters-in-law: Sharon, Myrtise, Paula, Maria-Luisa, Silvia, Mercedes and Virginia. He is survived by his loving nieces and nephews and his dear friends. Our father remained grateful to those he loved for the special moments he shared with them, memories of which he cherished.



Visitation will be held at St. Ann’s Church in Nyack, New York on Friday, November 17, from 4 – 8 pm and on Saturday, November 18, from 8:30 – 10 am after which a Catholic mass will be celebrated for him at 10 am. Interment will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack, New York.