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Joseph Thomas Violette

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Joseph Thomas Violette

Birth
Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, USA
Death
2 Oct 1955 (aged 66)
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.2224595, Longitude: -85.7182125
Plot
Section 12, Lot: 222, Block: E1/3, Grave: 3
Memorial ID
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Per death certificate: Parents were St. Clair Violette and Elizabeth Bradshaw. Worked for Brown-Forman Distillery. World War I veteran.

COURIER-JOURNAL, OCT. 3, 1955
Joseph Thomas Violette, 66, died of a gunshot wound to his chest while being taken to St. Joseph Infirmary about 3:15pm yesterday. Violette shot himself with a .38 caliber pistol in the basement of his home, 525 Spanish Court, Chief Deputy Coroner William T. Kammerer said. Kammerer gave a suicide verdict. He said Violette had been in ill health recently. Violette retired last year after working in the maintenance department of Brown-Forman Distilleries for 35 years. He was a native of Lebanon, KY and a member of St. John Vianney Church here. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Betty Mae Carraro Violette, and four sisters, Mrs. W. H. Payne and Miss Atwood Violette, both of Lebanon; Mrs. R. M. Ice and Mrs. Jane Sheridan. The funeral will be at 8:30am Wednesday at Blanford-Ratterman Funeral Home, 2815 South Fourth, and at 9am at St. John Vianney Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Per death certificate: Parents were St. Clair Violette and Elizabeth Bradshaw. Worked for Brown-Forman Distillery. World War I veteran.

COURIER-JOURNAL, OCT. 3, 1955
Joseph Thomas Violette, 66, died of a gunshot wound to his chest while being taken to St. Joseph Infirmary about 3:15pm yesterday. Violette shot himself with a .38 caliber pistol in the basement of his home, 525 Spanish Court, Chief Deputy Coroner William T. Kammerer said. Kammerer gave a suicide verdict. He said Violette had been in ill health recently. Violette retired last year after working in the maintenance department of Brown-Forman Distilleries for 35 years. He was a native of Lebanon, KY and a member of St. John Vianney Church here. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Betty Mae Carraro Violette, and four sisters, Mrs. W. H. Payne and Miss Atwood Violette, both of Lebanon; Mrs. R. M. Ice and Mrs. Jane Sheridan. The funeral will be at 8:30am Wednesday at Blanford-Ratterman Funeral Home, 2815 South Fourth, and at 9am at St. John Vianney Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.


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