Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


Genevieve M. DELANEY

Obituary (from newspaper of Sat., 18 May 1991):  CAPE VINCENT---The funeral for Genevieve M. Aubertine, 85, Hell St., who died Friday morning at the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown, will be at 9:30 a.m., Monday, at the Simpson-Cleveland
Funeral Home followed by a 10 a.m. Funeral Mass at St. Vincent DePaul Church, Rosiere, with the Rev. Eugene Kelley presiding.

    Burial will be in the Parish Cemetery, Rosiere.

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

    She is survived by five sons, Paul Aubertine, Cape Vincent, F. Vincent Aubertine, Clayton, Walton E. Aubertine, Lowville, Gerald Aubertine, Rochester, and Terry Aubertine, Cape Vincent; four daughters, Mrs. Peter (Beverly) Galaydick and
Mrs. William (Marion) Snyder, both from Syracuse, Miss Joan Aubertine, Palmyra, and Mrs. Garry (Ellen) Wood, Clayton; 40 grandchildren and 40 great-grandchildren; and a sister Mrs. Elizabeth Fulmer, East Rochester.

    Her husband, Walton L. Aubertine, died Oct. 12, 1970.  A son and daughter, Donald and Jean Aubertine, are also dead.

    She was born in Clayton Nov. 6, 1905, the daughter of John and Sarah Hamscomb Delaney.  She graduated from Clayton High School and the New York City Normal School for Teachers.  She taught for a number of schools, including the Grindstone
School, the one room school house on Favrey Road, Cape Vincent, St. Mary's School, Clayton, and the Cape Vincent School District.

    She married Mr. Aubertine, Jan. 2, 1928 at St. Mary's Church, Clayton.  The couple owned and operated a farm in Cape Vincent and also the GLF Feed Store in Rosiere until they retired in 1963, when they turned the farm over to their sons
Paul and Terry.

    She was a communicant of St. Vincent DePaul Church, and a member of the Altar and Rosary Society there, The Cape Vincent Improvement League, and the Capers Club.


Walter L. AUBERTINE

Obituary (from newspaper of 6 May 1963):  CAPE VINCENT---Walter L. Aubertine, 76, town of Cape Vincent assessor, died at 6 a.m. Sunday in Mercy Hospital, Watertown, where he was admitted at 9 p.m. Saturday.

    Death was attributed to pneumonia and blood poisoning.

    The funeral will be Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Mannigan funeral home and at 10 a.m. at St. Vincent of Paul Church with Rev. Patrick B. Riley, pastor, officiating.  Burial will be in Rosiere Cemetery.

    Members of LeRAy de Chaumont Council 2148, K. of C., will meet at the funeral home at 8 p.m., Tuesday to recite the rosary.  Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m., today and Tuesday.

    Mr. Aubertine is survived by his wife, Mrs. Grace Reff Aubertine; a son, Walton L., town of Cape Vincent; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cornaire, town of Cape Vincent; three sisters, Mrs. William (Cornelia) Pilon and Mrs. Freeman (Elsie)
Hubbard, town of Cape Vincent, and Mrs. Norris (Myrtle) Wetterhahn, Clayton; a brother, Charles, Rosiere; ten grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.  A sister, Louella, died in 1923.

    Mr. Aubertine was born in the town of Cape Vincent May 11, 1886, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth Constance Aubertine.  He married Grace Reff on Jan. 9, 1907, at the St. Vincent de Paul Church, Rosiere.  Rev. J.P. Byrnes, then pastor,
officiated.  The couple lived on a farm at Rosiere for 45 years.  They came to Cape Vincent after Mr. Aubertine's retirement in 1953.  Mr. Aubertine was later caretaker at Riverside Cemetery for five years.

    Mr. Aubertine was a member of the town of Cape Vincent board of assessors, of which he was chairman for four years.  He was a member of the town board and was town of Cape Vincent justice of the peace for two years.  He was a charter
member of LeRay de Chaumont 2148, Knights of Columbus, Rosiere, and received his 25-year pin seven years ago.


Grace REFF

Obituary (from Thousand Islands Sun of 30 Jan. 1969):  CAPE VINCENT---The funeral for Mrs. Grace Reff Aubertine, 84, was Saturday morning in St. Vincent de Paul's Church with Rev. John M. Kennedy officiating.  Spring burial will be in St.
Vincent de Paul's Cemetery, Rosiere.

    Mrs. Aubertine is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Louis (Elizabeth) Cormaire; a son, Walton Aubertine, both of Cape Vincent, ten grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Howard (Elsie) Radley, Cape Vincent; Mrs. Ernest
(Winnie) Reasoner, Canton, and Mrs. Frances Murphey, Utica; a brother, Wilford Reff, Avon, nieces and nephews.  Two brothers, Leon and Aloysius Reff, predeceased her.

    She was born Jan. 18, 1885 in Cape Vincent the daughter of Nicholas and Louise Laniger Reff, and was educated in local schools.  On Jan. 9, 1906, she was married to Walter L. Aubertine in St. Vincent de Paul's Church, Rosiere.  He died in
May 1863.

    Mrs. Aubertine was a member of St. Vincent de Paul's Church and its altar and rosary society and the Grange.


Martin G. WHITNEY

1  CMNT Moved To Cape Vincent In 1885