Born: March 22, 1913
Died: April 29, 1956
Married: Mary Alice Rice
Children: Lester, Edward, John, Robert, Pamela, Tresa, Jane
Lester E. Reome was a World War II veteran. He was a son of John and Phelleman Arquett Reome.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 30, 1956
Lester Reome Funeral Rites
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a. m. Wednesday at St. Bernard's Church, Saranac Lake, for Lester Reome, who died at 11 a.m. yesterday at Sunmount Veterans Hospital where he had been a patient for the last month.
Burial will be In St. Bernard's Cemetery.
There will be a Rosary service at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow at the Fortune Funeral Chapel where the body is reposing. Veterans services will be held at 7:45 p.m.
Mr. Reome was born in Malone on March 22, 1913, a son of John and Phelleman Arquett Reome. He attended schools there and around 1940 took a position at Gull Bay Camp at Bartlett's Carry. 1
Mr. Reome had been bartender at the Saranac Lake Veterans Club for the last six years and had also operated a linoleum and tile business In this village. He was a member of American Legion Post 447 having served with the U.S. Navy during World War II as an airplane mechanic at Corpus Christi, and was a member of Local 600 Carpenters and Joiners of America.
On September 1, 1939 Mr. Reome and Mary Alice Rice, of Saranac Lake, were married by Msgr. Clarence Kitts. His widow survives. There are ten children -- six sons, [sic] Lester, Edward, John, Robert and Pamela and twins Tresa and Jane. There are three brothers, Ernest, of Carthage, John, of Malone and Arthur, of Watertown; six sisters, Mrs. Clara LaFave, Mrs. Horace Passino and Mrs. Kenneth Supernault, of Malone, Mrs. Olan Sorell, of Rome, Mrs. Edna Marshall, Mrs. Louis Simmons, of Wartertown, and his stepmother, Mrs. Ida Reome, of Saranac Lake.
Footnote:
1. Gull Bay Camp is about a mile and a half northwest of Bartlett's Carry on the Bartlett Carry Road.
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