(July 22, 1943-November 6, 2001)

NORWOOD--The funeral for Raymond J. Collett, 58, of 1553 River Road, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Buck Funeral Home with Monsignor Gerald H. Service, pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Canton, officiating. The body will be cremated.

 Mr. Collett died Tuesday afternoon at his home from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

 Calling hours are 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

 He was a heavy-equipment operator with the St. Lawrence County Highway Department for 28 years.

 Born July 22, 1943, in Norwood, son of Dennis and Nellie Martin Collett, he married Margaret Schenk on Oct. 20, 1973.

 Surviving besides his wife are four daughters and two sons-in-law, Charlene and Michael Grady, Clyde, Christina and Floyd Klock, Norfolk, and Rebecca and Paula Collett, both at home, and four grandchildren.

 Two brothers, Donald and James, and two sisters, Helen M. LaPage and Loretta LaPage, died before him.

(Taken from the Thursday, November 8, 2001 edition of the Watertown Daily

Times, page 33).

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Corrections

Because of incomplete information provided, an obituary for Raymond J. Collett, 58, of 1553 River road, Norwood, printed in Thursday’s Times did not include the name of son Raymond Paul Collett, who died Feb. 17, 1982. Also, among his survivors are several nieces and nephews.

(Taken from the Saturday, November 10, 2001 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page 31).