(July 6, 1924--April 13, 2000)

GOUVERNEUR--The funeral for Harold J. Refici Sr., 75, Gouverneur, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. James Catholic Church with the Rev. Terry R. LaValley officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Edwards.

 Mr. Refici died Thursday at Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg.

 Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at French Funeral Home.

 Mr. Refici was employed by New York Central Railroad and did construction work. He spent summers at Black Lake.

 Born July 6, 1924, in Norwood, son of Samuel and Mary LaComb Refici, he graduated from Norwood High School. An Army veteran of World War II, he served in seven campaigns with the army Signal Corps, seeing duty at New Guinea and being wounded at Leyte and Luzon. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star with two oak leaf clusters.

 He married Mildred J. Rice on May 17, 1945, in St. James Catholic Church with the Rev. William J. Argy officiating. The marriage ended in divorce. He married Rose N. Elliott on Aug. 1, 1966, in Arlington, Va. She died Sept. 21, 1980.

 He married Esther Matthie Cain on Dec. 20, 1981, at Cranberry Lake. The marriage was later blessed at St. James Church with Monsignor Gerald Service officiating. The couple owned and operated Cain's Cottages, Black Lake. Mrs. Refici died Dec. 20, 1996.

 Mr. Refici was a communicant of St. James Catholic Church and a member of the Gouverneur American Legion. He enjoyed fishing and deer hunting.

(Taken from the Friday, April 14, 2000 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, page 31).

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Surviving are five sons, Harold Jr., Cranberry Lake, Alan, Fineview, Roger, Fowler, and Samuel and Lyle, both of Ogdensburg; three daughters, Sandra Ronasser, Avon, Kathy Northrup, Hopkins, S.C., and Bertha Ramsey, Ogdensburg; a stepdauther, Marilynn Carerras, Sacramento, Calif; four sisters, Rose Woodrow, Syracuse, Marguerite Johnson and Jean LaMora, both of Gouverneur, and Dorothy Bland, Port Richey, Fla.; 15 grandchildren and seven greatchildren.

A son, Michael, and three sisters, Elizabeth Williams, Frances Lang and Ellen Woods, died before him. A brother and two sisters died in infancy.

Donations may be made to St. James Catholic Church.