(October 4, 1921-July 3, 2004)

NORWOOD--Caroline G. Bellardini, 82, or 645 River Road, died Saturday at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt.

Mrs. Bellardini worked at W. T. Grant Co., Tardelli’s Restaurant and Clarkson University, all in Potsdam.

Born Oct. 4, 1921, in Detroit, Mich., daughter of Pasquale and Eugenia Morabito Procida, she worked for Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Detroit for a time.

She married Nazarine J. Bellardini Sept. 23, 1950, in Detroit. The couple came to Norwood in 1950.

Mrs. Bellardini was a communicant of St. Andrew’s Church and was a life member of its Altar and Rosary Society. She enjoyed gardening.

Surviving besides her husband are a son and his wife, Mark and Elizabeth, Norwood; two daughters and a son-in-law, Sharman and Walter Smutz Jr., Potsdam, and Drucille Bellardini, Norwood; a sister, Mary LaPointe, Canton; six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and an aunt and cousins in Detroit.

A sister, Joanna, died at age 5 and a brother, Frederick Procida, died in April.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Buck Funeral Home with Monsignor Harry K. Snow, pastor of St. Andrew’s Church, officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Donations may be made to the Canton-Potsdam Hospital Cardiac Unit, Potsdam.

(From the Tuesday, July 6, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page D5).