pThe funeral for Charmaine Laurel Sacchetti will be 1:00pm Saturday, April 23rd at Emmanuel Congregational Church, Watertown. Burial in Brookside Cemetery will follow the service. Calling hours will be at the church Friday, April 22nd from 2:00-4:00pm & 6:00-8:00pm./ppCharmaine passed away at her home Tuesday, April 19th surrounded by her children and some of her grandchildren. She had been in the hospital and came home with Hospice the previous day./ppBorn August 11, 1924 in Harrisburg, NY, Charmaine was a daughter of Bertie L. and Lila Mae (Neidle) Chambers. She was educated by Mrs. Ingallhart in Copenhagen’s one room schoolhouse, and graduated high school in 1941 from Lowville Academy./ppCharmaine worked primarily as a homemaker, although she was employed as a seamstress at Olga Knitting Mill & Model Homes in Watertown, also. She also had other “odd” jobs which include being the lunchroom monitor at Ohio Street School, and caring for a blind person./ppCharmaine was a member of Emmanuel Congregational Church in Watertown for 58 years where she sang in the choir for many years, and taught Sunday school for 37 years. She was also very active in the women’s church groups. /ppShe donated her spare time as a literacy volunteer teaching reading and English as a second language, and was involved with various community services in Watertown. She enjoyed sewing, working in her flower gardens, reading, crossword puzzles, drawing, painting, & other crafts./ppA marriage to Stanley Hutton from 1942-1957 ended in divorce. a marriage to Peter G. Sacchetti from 1958-1988 ended when Mr. Sacchetti passed away./ppShe is survived by her children, Norris Thomas Hutton of Watertown, Gloria Lydia Longamore of Black River, Monica Laurel and Paul Boudreau of Eastford, CT, Joseph Peter Sacchetti of Watertown; a step-daughter, Nancy Lee Perkins of Florida; her siblings, Elsie Mae, Elizabeth Joanne, Doris Louise; 2 son-in-laws, James Perkins & Frederick Longamore; 11 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, 5 great-great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews./ppBesides her husband, Peter, Charmaine is predeceased by 2 granddaughters, Amy Boudreau, Shanna Sacchetti; a great-granddaughter, Alexandria L. Stagner; and 4 siblings, Norris Dean Chambers, Esther Sacchetti, John C. Chambers, Louis V. Chambers./ppDonations may be made in her name to St. Jude’s Children Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 -or- Hospice of Jefferson County, 1398 Gotham Street, Watertown, New York 13601./ppArrangements are with Reed & Benoit Funeral Home, Inc./ppCondolences may be made at www.reedbenoit.com/p
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