WEBSTER - Antoinette Methe died Tuesday, June 4, 2025 after a brief illness. The daughter of Eldon G. and Stefanie M. (Gorela) Methe, she graduated from St. Joseph Elementary School, attended St. Louis High School and graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Worcester in 1968. As a high school student, she won the Diocesan Spelling Bee Award two years in a row. After high school Ms. Methe graduated from Ward School of Business in 1970 with the “General Excellence Award” and “First Place Secretarial Division.” She worked as a secretary at Wyman Gordon Co. in Worcester and then at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, from 1974 to 2017, most recently as the Administrative Assistant in the Department of Classics.
Ms. Methe was a soloist throughout the New England area, singing at various parishes for weddings and funerals. She also sang for area religious and civic organizations, having sung the National Anthem for the Town of Webster with the Pulaski Brass Band at Memorial Day services and for the Fourth of July Fireworks. She studied voice privately with area voice teachers, including Joseph Rogus, Grace Polanski, Matilda Protano and at Holy Cross studied with Marsha Vleck. She was also a cantor at Holy Cross, singing for many weddings and other campus liturgies.
Ms. Methe appeared on local radio and television, including the former WHYN-TV in Springfield, on the program “Polka” and was a second-place winner on WBZ-TV’s “Community Auditions.” She was a soloist with the folk ensemble group Piast on local cable TV, a soloist at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Worcester with a live broadcast on WTAG-Radio and was a guest soloist on the former radio station “14-Q” in Worcester and local WESO radio. She acted, sang and danced with the former “Theatre Unlimited,” a community theatre company in Worcester, appearing in their productions of “Pippin,” “Harvey,” “Ten for Tonight” and “Razzle-Dazzle.”
Ms. Methe was a former member of the Webster-Dudley American Legion Auxiliary Post #184, where she had been past Vice-President, Secretary, Chaplain and a member of the Executive Board. She a former member of the Committee on Campus Ministry at the College of the Holy Cross in which she served as Eucharistic minister, lector, server, lay presider and cantor.
She was a member of Saint Joseph Basilica where she was a soloist and former CCD teacher. She had also been a member of the Sacred Heart Society, Holy Rosary Sodality and St. Joseph Polish Women’s Club. She also belonged to the Daughters of Isabella, Bernadette Circle #709.
She leaves many cousins living in Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, California, North Carolina, Florida and Poland.
Her funeral will be held on Tuesday, June 10, with a Mass at 11:00 AM in Saint Joseph Basilica, 53 Whitcomb Street, with a musical prelude she chose beginning at 10:30 AM. Burial will be in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Southbridge. Donations in her name may be made to either St. Joseph Basilica, 53 Whitcomb St., Webster, MA 01570, to The Humane Society of the United States, PETA, Farm Sanctuary or to the Native American Rights Fund (NARF). Arrangements are under the direction of Scanlon Funeral Service, 38 East Main Street.