Rev. Normand C Cote

A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Normand C. Côté will be celebrated by Bishop Terry R. LaValley on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at Our Lady of Victory Church in Plattsburgh. Reception of the Body will be at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 20, at the church with Msgr. Dennis J. Duprey, dean of the Clinton-Northern Franklin Deanery, presiding. Calling hours will follow concluding with Night Prayer at 8 p.m. Calling hours will resume on Wednesday morning from 9 to 10:30 a.m. A spring burial will be in the family plot in St. Peter’s Cemetery. Father Côté died late in the evening on Thursday, February 8, 2024, in Plattsburgh, where he had resided since his retirement in 2003. He was 95. Born August 18, 1928, in St. John’s, Quebec, he was the son of Gabriel and Christine (Biasaillon) Côté. His parents predeceased him. The third of six children, his family left Canada for the United States in September of 1929, and he attended grammar school at our Lady of Victory Academy in Plattsburgh and high school at St. Edmund’s Junior Seminary in Swanton, Vermont. His first two years of college were spent at St. Michael’s College in Winooski, Vermont. He then went to Bourget College in Rigaud, Quebec, to study philosophy. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in November of 1953. He began his seminary studies at Holy Apostles Seminary, La Prairie, Quebec, in 1954. He completed his seminary studies at the Grand Seminary of Saint Sulpice in Montreal, Quebec. On May 31, 1958, he was ordained by Bishop James J. Navagh in St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ogdensburg. He celebrated his first Solemn High Mass at his home church, Our Lady of Victory in Plattsburgh. He then began his priesthood as parochial vicar at St. Mary’s Church in Clayton, followed by time in that same role at St. Augustine’s Church in Peru, St. Bernard’s Church in Lyon Mountain, Notre Dame Church in Malone (temporary assignment), Holy Name Church in Tupper Lake, Church of the Holy Family in Watertown, St. John the Baptist Church in Keeseville, and again at St. Mary’s Church in Clayton. In June of 1969, Father Côté was named pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in LaFargeville. He later served as pastor of St. Therese Church in Newcomb and St. Joseph’s Church in Coopersville, with a brief period of service as a special assistant at St. Mary’s Church in Champlain. Father Côté retired in 2003. In addition to his parents, Father Côté was predeceased by a sister Lillian Côté: a brother, Paul Côté, his wife Patricia and their daughter Valerie; a brother, George Côté and his wife Valida; and a brother, Lionel "Joe" Côté, and his wife Barbara and his sister Aline Côté. Father Côté is survived by several nieces and nephews, and extended family. Arrangements are through Brown Funeral Home.