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Housewife (December 4, 1930-March 20, 1998)
POTSDAM--The funeral for Frances Cecelia Layaw, 67, of 6743 Route 56, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Buck Funeral Home, Norwood, with the Rev. John P. Kennehan officiating. Burial will be later this spring in Riverside Cemetery. Mrs. Layaw died Friday at Hepburn Medical Center, Ogdensburg. Calling hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mrs. Layaw was a housewife and a communicant of St. Mary's Church. Born Dec. 4, 1930 at Potsdam, daughter of Napoleon and Clara Wells Shatraw, she attended Potsdam High School. She married Ernest Sweet on May 13, 1947, at Potsdam with the Rev. Paul A. Roy officiating. Mr. Sweet, an electrician, died Dec. 24, 1966. She married Paul Layaw on April 20, 1968. Surviving besides her husband are five sons, Ernest Sweet, Liverpool, Gary Sweet, Potsdam, Timothy Sweet, Brunswick, Maine, Jeffrey Sweet, Norfolk, and Jonathan Layaw, Massena; four daughters, Mrs. Judson (Judy) Mills, Colton, Sherry Sweet, Norwood, Mrs. Floyd (Suzette) Scovil, Colton, and Jeanette Sweet, Syracuse; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Lorraine) Gonyea, Potsdam, and Mrs. Ethan (Alice) Prince, Norfolk; 16 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Two brothers, Harry and Napoleon Shatraw, and three sisters, Mildred Hallenbeck, Amelia Bond and Corrine Shatraw, died before her. Donations may be made to the Renal Dialysis Unit Foundation, 214 King St., Ogdensburg, N.Y. 13669, or Potsdam Rescue Squad.
(Taken from the Sunday, March 22, 1998 edition of the Watertown Daily Times).
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