Noel V. Coletti ’50 died on June 22, 2025, in Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Noel V. Coletti ’50
Noel V. Coletti, age 98, died peacefully in his sleep at the VA Hospital in Bedford, MA, on June 22, 2025. He was born in Bronxville, NY, to Noel V. Coletti, Sr., and Alice H. (Abel) Coletti.
He was a man who valued service to family, to country, to his church, and to community. He graduated from Tilton School in Tilton, NH, and enlisted in the Army Specialized Reserve Training Program at the age of 17 in 1944. He then served in the Army Air Corps as an airplane mechanic in Okinawa, Japan. He attended Bowdoin College, graduating in 1950, after which he re-enlisted to serve as an air cadet for five months.
He married Constance MacDonald of Quincy, MA, in Dijon, France, in 1952. Returning to the states, he earned an M.Ed. at Northeastern and taught in Provincetown, MA, and Colchester, CT. He worked in quality control for various manufacturing firms in Connecticut for most of his career while residing in Danbury, New Haven, and Madison. He ran a small sharpening business as The Shoreline Sharpener out of his homes in Madison and Bourne.
After retiring to Monument Beach, he continued to enjoy woodworking; sailing “Noel’s Ark”, a boat he built himself; and volunteering at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Falmouth. He and his wife were able to travel around the U.S. and the world. They were always up for a new adventure. He loved family, laughter, reading — especially history books — listening to opera, eating all the good foods his wife cooked, and tending and using his compost. He was an easy-going and accommodating man with a great sense of humor. He appreciated the care he received from dedicated caregivers the last few decades of his life while living with Alzheimer’s.
He was the loving husband of the late Constance MacDonald Coletti for sixty-eight years. He was predeceased by his eldest son, Noel Coletti of Haverhill, MA, and his brother, William Coletti. He is survived by his daughter-in-law, Deborah Y. Coletti of Haverhill, MA; his children, Judith LeBeau (Mark) of Monument Beach, MA; Sarah Coletti (Michael Biales) of Acton, MA; Ellen Coletti (Kevin Murray) of Roslindale, MA; Ted Coletti (Patty) of Killingworth, CT; and Amy Allen (Fred) of Madison, CT. He is also survived by fifteen grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and several step-great grandchildren.