Daniel Camille Brochu

Daniel Camille Brochu

June 16, 1947 - June 21, 2023

Daniel Camille Brochu died in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 21,2023. Daniel was born in Paris, France to Camille and Jacqueline Brochu. Those surviving Daniel is his wife Teresita Abueg Brochu, his daughter Carolyn, his grandsons Grayson and Dalton. Daniel’s brothers: Michel , Phillip, and Denis, sisters: Sylvie and Marie Christine. Daniel earned his baccalauréat in Mathematics at the  University of Paris, France. He then was hired as math professor at the university. A few years later, he moved to Quebec, Canada.  He developed and converted a bilingual (French-English) newspaper from manual media newspaper to an electronic media newspaper. He founded the French Collection Inc company, an import/export of  French products that include French hollowware, French cookwares, French crystals and French porcelains to mention a few. Houston’s port of entry became the hub for the  French Collection products and later on became Daniel’s permanent residence for 30 years. During his 30 years stay in Houston, he won a scholarship for Nuclear Physics in MIT. Daniel had big dreams. He wanted to work for NASA and fly to the moon. His first job in Houston was writing codes for Compaq Computer Corporation and  Hewlett-Packard Company. He has a passion for cooking. Not satisfied with his PhD in Nuclear Physics, he went back to school at Lenotre Culinary specializing in French pastries. His final dream was to build a home close to the mountains with four mild seasons as a reminder of his younger years when growing up in France. In 2015. Daniel found a beautiful 5-acre lot, overlooking the English Mountain in Sevierville , TN.  In 2019, together with his wife Teresita, they moved to Sevierville TN. Courageously fighting cancer for 20 years, Daniel had a cardiac arrest on June 19,2023 and passed away on June 21,2023. Daniel fought a good fight. In the silence of his heart he prays

"Heavenly Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you: I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures. I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend my soul; I offer it to you with all the love of my heart, for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself, to surrender myself into your hands, without reserve, and with boundless confidence, for you are my Father. My savior and my all."