Obituary (from newspaper of 27 Mar. 1998): CAPE VINCENT---Coletta J. Gray, 89, of 475 Bay St., died Thursday at Genesis HealthCare, Watertown, where she had been a resident since Dec. 31.
Born July 24, 1908, in Clayton, daughter of William and Cornelia Aubertine Pilon, she was raised and educated in Clayton and at Grindstone Island. She graduated from LaFargeville High School and had worked in a Clayton knitting mill
before her marriage.She married Weldon O. Dailey in the summer of 1937 in Watertown. Mr. Dailey died Aug. 18, 1976. She then married Eugene Francis Gray on Sept. 16, 1977, at her home in Cape Vincent with the Rev. Stanley Tanner officiating.
Mrs. Gray was a member of Cape Vincent United Methodist Church and its women's organization.
A prayer service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Cape Vincent United Methodist Church, the Rev. Mark Pierce, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery later in the spring.
Surviving besides her husband are a son, Terry K. Dailey, Brownville; a sister, Mrs. Charles (Wava) Bourquin, Dexter and Florida; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
A brother, William Pilon, and four sisters, Ruth Pilon, Constance Aubertine, Blanche Snell and Margaret Cotter, died before her.
Calling hours will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Contributions may be made to the Cape Vincent Volunteer Ambulance Fund. Arrrangements are with Cummings Funeral Home, Clayton.
Obituary (from newspaper of 17 March 1939): Porter A. House, 63, of Black River, died at 4 Thursday afternoon in the House of the Good Samaritan, where he had been a patient since March 3. He underwent an operation Monday for a stomach tumor.
He had been in ill health for several months.Mr. House was born May 21, 1875, at Clayton, a son of Aaron and Charlotte House. He attended school at Clayton. On July 28, 1907, he married Miss Bessie Jacques of Lowville at Lowville.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter lived at Lowville for a short time and later came to this city to reside. He was employed at the New York Air Brake company and also in paper mills in Brownville and Dexter.
Nineteen years ago he moved to Black River. For eight years he was employed on the D.C. Middleton dairy farm near that village. Later he worked in the St. Regis Paper company mill at Black River until it closed. Since then he had been
employed in the company's mill at Deferiet.Surviving him, besides his wife, are two daughters, Mrs. Alan (Marion) Clapsaddle, Rome, and Mrs. Francis (Rosalind) Bocciolatt, city; two grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Frances Hubbard, Watertown, and Mrs. Emogene Calhoun, Clayton.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 at the home. Rev. C. B. Wallace, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Black River, will officiate. The body will be placed in a vault to await burial in the spring.
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