Raymond J. DROLET

Visitation for Raymond J. Drolet, 86, of Bradley, will be from 6 p.m. Friday until the 8 p.m. memorial service at the Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais. Cremation rites have been accorded. Memorials may be made to the family wishes. He died Saturday (June 4, 2005) at his home. Mr. Drolet was a Kankakee County Sheriff's Deputy from 1957 until he retired in 1976. He was born March 24, 1919, in Kankakee, the son of Emile and Anna Caron Drolet. He joined the U.S. Navy Dec. 12, 1940 and served in the Asiatic Pacific, where he received four stars and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He enjoyed being with his family and walking. Surviving are his wife, the former Marie Abate, of Bradley, whom he married Sept. 11, 1943, in New Haven, Conn.; one son and daughter-in-law, George and Marilyn Drolet of Bradley; one granddaughter, Terri Boudreau of Bradley; two great-grandsons, Brendan and Skylar Boudreau, both of Bradley; three sisters and one brother-in-law, Genevieve and Wilbert Rice and Pauline Drolet, all of Kankakee, Sister Mary Syblinnia (Irene) of Lufkin, Texas; one brother, Robert Drolet of Santa Barbara, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews. Deceased are one granddaughter, Sherri Drolet; six brothers, Maurice, Rev. Jerome, Jullian, Benard, Ambrose and Paul; and two sisters, Gertrude Schumaker and Marie Lambert.