A prayer service will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Cummings Funeral Home followed by a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at Holy Family Church with the Rev. Clyde A. Lewis officiating. Burial will be in Lowville Rural Cemetery.
Surviving are four sons, Charles O., Watertown, Steven C., Briarcliff Manor, David A., Albany, and James P., Dallas, Texas; 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Four brothers, James T., Outterson G., Carroll and Alvin Bernier, and two sisters, Marie Park and Susan McDonald, died before her.
Born Dec. 5, 1902, in New York City, a daughter of Alvin L. and Catherine I. Outterson Bernier, her family moved to Pyrites and later to Canton, where she graduated from Canton High School in 1920 and St. Lawrence University in 1924.
Mrs. Nevin was a language teacher for many years, teaching Latin, French and Spanish. She taught at Tupper Lake for two years and for the Watertown City School District from 1926 to 1930.
She married Leonard C. Nevin on June 22, 1929, at Holy Family Church with the Rev. G.T. Donnelly officiating. Mr. Nevin, chief engineer at Chemipulp Process Inc., died Nov. 28, 1961.
Mrs. Nevin taught at Black River High School from 1952 to 1957 and Carthage Central School from 1958 until her retirement in 1967.
A communicant of Holy Family Church, she was a member of the state Retired Teachers Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Kamargo Association of Black River High School.
She also was a volunteer for Flower Memorial Library, where she was a member of the genealogical committee, and Immaculate Heart Central School library.
A prayer service will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Cummings Funeral Home followed by a funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at Holy Family Church with the Rev. Clyde A. Lewis officiating. Burial will be in Lowville Rural Cemetery.
Surviving are four sons, Charles O., Watertown, Steven C., Briarcliff Manor, David A., Albany, and James P., Dallas, Texas; 13 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Four brothers, James T., Outterson G., Carroll and Alvin Bernier, and two sisters, Marie Park and Susan McDonald, died before her.
Born Dec. 5, 1902, in New York City, a daughter of Alvin L. and Catherine I. Outterson Bernier, her family moved to Pyrites and later to Canton, where she graduated from Canton High School in 1920 and St. Lawrence University in 1924.
Mrs. Nevin was a language teacher for many years, teaching Latin, French and Spanish. She taught at Tupper Lake for two years and for the Watertown City School District from 1926 to 1930.
She married Leonard C. Nevin on June 22, 1929, at Holy Family Church with the Rev. G.T. Donnelly officiating. Mr. Nevin, chief engineer at Chemipulp Process Inc., died Nov. 28, 1961.
Mrs. Nevin taught at Black River High School from 1952 to 1957 and Carthage Central School from 1958 until her retirement in 1967.
A communicant of Holy Family Church, she was a member of the state Retired Teachers Association, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Kamargo Association of Black River High School.
She also was a volunteer for Flower Memorial Library, where she was a member of the genealogical committee, and Immaculate Heart Central School library.
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