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- Newspaper Obituary - Friday, January 19, 1973 Watertown Daily Times - Watertown, New York - Harry J. Cavellier Rites Set - Richland - The funeral for Harry J. Cavellier, 82, retired New York Central Railroad employee and insurance agency operator, who died Thursday in Mercy Hospital, Watertown, will be Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the Taylor-Vida Funeral Home, Pulaski, and 10 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, Pulaski, Rev. Thomas P. Whale, pastor, officiating. Spring burial will be in Richland Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. The rosary will be recited at the funeral home tonight at 8. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Hazel W. Pulver Cavellier; a son, Raymond, Watertown; a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Mary Elizabeth) Guzewich, Dolgeville; a sister, Mrs. Frank (Virginia) Michalski, Oswego; nine grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; nieces and nephews. Born January 10, 1891, in Oswego, a son of Theophilis and Katherine O'Brien Cavellier, he attended Oswego schools, traveled for a time in show business and from 1907 to 1910 was a messenger with the Oswego postal telegraph. He then began his railroad career as a night operator for the New York Central at Burt. He was located at various places in the St. Lawrence division of the railroad, and during World War I was stationed with the Army in Mallory in 1918. In 1921 he came to Richland with the railroad as an operator, and was appointed station agent in May, 1949. Mr. Cavellier, who retired from the railroad in 1958 after 48 years of service, also operated an insurance business for 39 years. He first married Helen Devens in Oswego on October 11, 1917. She died in 1961 and he married Hazel Wyman Pulver at Pulaski in 1969. Mr. Cavellier was secretary-treasurer for 25 years and a charter member of Council 5606, Knights of Columbus, Pulaski, the Holy Name Society and Nocturnal Adoration Society of St. John the Evangelist Church and was a member of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
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