This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ramie, Girouard, Bellefeuille Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8311 Message Board Post: Watertown Daily Times, Sepetember 13, 2005 Francis Xavier Ramie, 91, Brentwood, Long Island, an Ogdensburg native, died Friday at St. Catherine's Hospital, Smithtown, NY. Mr. Ramie moved from Ogdensburg to Long Island with friends in 1937 to work at the newly opened Pilgrim State Hospital, West Brentwood. He later worked for 26 years as a route driver for Dugan Bros. Bakery, Brentwood, NY. After retiring from the bakery he worked for 10 years at Dairy Barn stores at various Long Island locations, until his second retirement in 1979. He was a communicant of St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church, Brentwood. Before St. Luke's formation, he was an active member of St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church parish, Brentwood, serving as president of the Holy Name Society, a religious education teacher, an usher and a bingo attendant. He served on the Brentwood Public School Board of Education for nine years, was a volunteer at a local mission, Pronto, and was a volunteer firefighter. In 1998, he was named Town of Islip Volunteer of the Year by Suffolk Life Newspaper and was honored for more than 50 years of service to his community by the Junior League of Long Island at its Merit Award luncheon. Born Jan 5, 1914, in Ogdensburg, son of Narcisse "Nelson" and Victoria Girouard Ramie, he attended St. Peter's School and graduated from St. Mary's Academy in 1933. A World War II Army veteran, he served in the 489th Bomb Group Medics for the 847th Bomb Squadron in England from 1943 to 1946. His wife, the former, Helen Costello, with whom he celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1989, died before him. Surviving are a son, Francis, Islip, two daughters and a son-in-law, Gail Vlahoginis, Brentwood, and Patricia and Stephen Hennessey, Huntington, a brother, Nelson J., Canton, three granddaughters, a grandson, three great-grandsons and several nieces and nephews. Seven sisters, Rose Robillard Mallette, Ella Ramie Cliff, Lucy Ramie Chapman, Philomene Ramie Miller, Olive Ramie Martin, Elizabeth Ramie Tynon and Marie Ramie, and three brothers, J. Alphonse, Henry and Joseph P., also died before him. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church. Calling hours will be from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Monday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Michael J. Grant Funeral Home, Brentwood.