Feb. 4, 1915 – July 20, 2018
Ollie “Sally” M. Sicotte, 103, of Sweet Home passed away July 20, 2018.
She was born Feb. 4, 1915 in Comyn, Texas to William H. and Mary J. (Swanner) Caffey.
Sally, as she was known to her friends and family, lived a long and full life.
She was married to retired Army Sgt. Kenneth C. Sicotte, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, for most of her life. He passed away in 1984. As a result, she will be buried with him at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.
Sally had lived in Comyn and DeLeon, Texas; El Monte, Baldwin Park and West Covina, Calif.; Osaka, Japan; Landstuhl, Germany; and in Salem before moving to Sweet Home in 1984 after the death of her husband.
She worked in retail, real estate sales, raised aquarium fish for sale. She attended Sweet Home Christian Church.
Sally loved gardening, quilting, cooking, canning, playing Word Find puzzles, Solitaire and reading.
Through her life and her death she trusted fully in her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. She firmly believed the Bible was inspired by God, and she read it daily. She attributed her long life to the will of God.
While she often questioned why God let her live so long, her family and friends suspected it was so she could continue to pray for them, which she did daily.
She was a “prayer warrior.”
Sally believed the words of Christ, which He spoke in the Gospel of John, Chapter 14, Verse 6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Because of her faith in Christ, she did not fear death. She knew that her Lord had already overcome death by His resurrection from the grave. “O Death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:55-57)
For this reason, while the surviving family members do grieve in the loss of their mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, they take comfort in the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:13, 14 and 18: “But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus… Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
She is survived by her daughters, Janie Lyles of Amarillo, Texas, and Mary Ahola of Sweet Home; sons Henry Rhone of Silver City, N.M., Charles Sicotte of Issaquah, Wash., and Michael Sicotte of Sweet Home; sister Evelyn Howard of Granbury, Texas; 13 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and 40 great-great-grandchildren.
Ollie was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth C. Sicotte; a brother who died as a small child; and brother John; and sisters Louise, Mildred, Pearl and Maureen.
A Celebration of Life will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, at Sweet Home Christian Church.
Final burial was at Willamette National.
Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.