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Surnames: Paoletto, Brahaney
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From the Huntington Herald Press Online, April 25, 2006
Mary M. Paoletto, 84, Portage, Mich., died at 5:15 p.m. Saturday (April 22, 2006) at
Bronson Methodist Hospital in Portage.
Mrs. Paoletto was a former Huntington resident. She was a homemaker and had worked for
approximately 10 years in the cafeteria at Our Sunday Visitor. She was a graduate of
Salamanca (N.Y.) High School.
She was born Jan. 28, 1922, in Salamanca, N.Y., a daughter of John and Mary Brahaney. She
married Bart Paoletto Nov. 15, 1941; her husband survives.
Additional survivors include three daughters, Rosemary Hayden of Schoolcraft, Mich., Carol
McNeal of El Paso, Tex., and Julie Burns of Florence, Ala.; a son, Thomas Paoletto of
Jefferson Ga.; a sister, Jean Fisher of Salamanca, N.Y.; two brothers, James Brahaney and
Daniel Brahaney, both of Salamanca, N.Y.; nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by an infant grandson, two sisters, and one brother.
Cremation has taken place and a memorial Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday at
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church, 1150 W. Centre Ave., Portage, Mich.
Memorial gifts may be made to Parent to Parent of Southwest Michigan, 406 E. Michigan
Ave., Portage MI 49007, or to St. Monica School, 530 W. Kilgore Ave., Kalamazoo MI 49008.
The Avink Funeral Home Cremation Society, Schoolcraft, Mich., is in charge of
arrangements.