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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Marlene A. Raboteau
Marlene A.
Raboteau
d. Apr 20, 2017
Marlene A. Raboteau's Obituary
Marlene A. Raboteau, 85, of Princeton, NJ, died at the Princeton Care Center on Thursday, April 20, 2017.
Born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in 1932, Marlene was raised there until 1945, when the racially motivated murder of her father, Albert Raboteau, prompted her mother, Mabel Ishem Raboteau to move North, settling in Kokomo, Indiana with Marlene, her sister Alise and her brother, Albert, Jr. In 1947, the family moved again to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she completed High School and attended junior college. Afterwards, she worked as a police dispatcher until 1958, when she joined the rest of her family in relocating to Pasadena, California. There she occupied a clerical position at St. Joseph's Hospital. In 1982, she moved to Princeton where her brother, Albert, had joined the faculty of the Religion Department at the University. She did clerical work at the University Housing and Facilities Department. After retirement, she moved to Elm Court and then to Princeton Care Center. Debilitated by Alzheimer's disease, her health began to fail over the past year and worsened significantly in the past month.
A parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church, she received the last rites two days before her death.
She is survived by her brother Albert Raboteau, her nephews, Albert Raboteau, III, Charles Raboteau and Martin Raboteau, her niece Emily Raboteau, her sisters-in-law Kathy Murtaugh and Joanne Shima Raboteau, her grandnieces, Lucia, Delilah and Paz and her grandnephews, Albert Jordy Raboteau IV, Geronimo Jacob, Ollie and Gus.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, April, 29, 2017 at 1:00PM in St. Paul's Church- Mercy Chapel, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton.
Committal services will follow at Trinity-All Saints' Cemetery, Princeton.
Born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in 1932, Marlene was raised there until 1945, when the racially motivated murder of her father, Albert Raboteau, prompted her mother, Mabel Ishem Raboteau to move North, settling in Kokomo, Indiana with Marlene, her sister Alise and her brother, Albert, Jr. In 1947, the family moved again to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she completed High School and attended junior college. Afterwards, she worked as a police dispatcher until 1958, when she joined the rest of her family in relocating to Pasadena, California. There she occupied a clerical position at St. Joseph's Hospital. In 1982, she moved to Princeton where her brother, Albert, had joined the faculty of the Religion Department at the University. She did clerical work at the University Housing and Facilities Department. After retirement, she moved to Elm Court and then to Princeton Care Center. Debilitated by Alzheimer's disease, her health began to fail over the past year and worsened significantly in the past month.
A parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church, she received the last rites two days before her death.
She is survived by her brother Albert Raboteau, her nephews, Albert Raboteau, III, Charles Raboteau and Martin Raboteau, her niece Emily Raboteau, her sisters-in-law Kathy Murtaugh and Joanne Shima Raboteau, her grandnieces, Lucia, Delilah and Paz and her grandnephews, Albert Jordy Raboteau IV, Geronimo Jacob, Ollie and Gus.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, April, 29, 2017 at 1:00PM in St. Paul's Church- Mercy Chapel, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton.
Committal services will follow at Trinity-All Saints' Cemetery, Princeton.
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Funeral Services for Marlene A. Raboteau
Memorial Mass
April
29
Saturday
St. Paul Catholic Church-Mercy Chapel
Starts at 1:00 pm
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