Colette Cattin


Colette Cattin

Auburndale, FL- Colette Boillat Cattin, 86, died  on July 11 at the Good Sheperd Hospice. Memorial services will be held in the Chapel of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Winter Haven, at 11 am on Saturday, August 25, and at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Wilmington, VT, at 11 am on Saturday, September 29.
Born on August 25, 1931 in Les Breuleux, Switzerland, Mrs. Cattin was the second youngest of Imier and Emilia Boillat’s eight children. Her family owned a dairy farm and a watchmaking shop in Les Breuleux. As a child, Colette attended the Les Breuleux school, and worked for both her family’s farm and watchmaking shop, assembling tiny gears. She was a soprano in Les Bergeronettes, the village maidens’ choir and acted in the village drama club, where she met her future husband.
 She married Pierre Cattin on July 10, 1961, in St. Joseph Catholic Church in Les Breuleux, Switzerland. She and Pierre raised two children, Stephane and Bernadette, in Wilmington, VT, after emigrating to New York in 1967.
Mrs. Cattin worked tirelessly as a homemaker and volunteered for Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, Deerfield Valley Rescue, and the Wilmington High School library. Her love of singing and acting kept her involved in local theater and church choirs in Vermont and Florida. She was a highly talented amateur seamstress and chef as well as an avid gardener and lover of music and nature. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother, and will be dearly missed.
Mrs. Cattin was preceded in death by her parents and all her siblings. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Pierre Cattin; her son Stephane and his wife Jennifer, of Falmouth, MA; her daughter Bernadette, of Ocean View, DE; and four grandchildren, Holly Cattin, of Boston, Sarah Cattin, of West Palm Beach, Spenser Cattin, of Manchester, NH, and Allison Hemingway, of Ocean View, DE.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Deerfield Valley Rescue Inc. in Wilmington or the Good Sheperd Hospice in Auburndale.

The Deerfield Valley News

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Wilmington, VT 05363

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