FELTS MILLS — A prayer service for John "Jack" O'Connor, 75, School Street, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Reed & Benoit Funeral Home, Watertown, followed by a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Black River, with the Rev. Andrew R. Mulvaney, pastor, officiating. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Glenwood Cemetery, Watertown.

Mr. O'Connor died Friday in the emergency room at Samaritan Medical Center, Watertown.

Calling hours will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, where members of William C. Dexter American Legion Post 673, Black River, will meet at 7 p.m.

He worked for AT&T, New York Telephone, Nynex and Verizon from 1955 until retiring in 1988 as garage foreman. After his retirement from Verizon, he formed J. & Co., a vehicle transportation company for Verizon, turning it over to his son Michael in 1994. Mr. O'Connor served as vice president of the O'Connor Burial Vault Co. on Cook Road in Watertown for many years.

He was a communicant of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Black River and St. Rita's Catholic Church, Deferiet, and a member of American Legion Post 673 and Telephone Pioneers of America. He was a founding member of the Barnes Corners Sno-Pals snowmobile club and enjoyed camping, hunting and reading. He had spent the past five winters at Lake Okeechobee, Fla.

Born Dec. 12, 1932, in Ogdensburg, son of G.W. "Bill" and Ruth Murphy O'Connor, he graduated from Immaculate Heart Academy, Watertown, in 1950. Following graduation he joined the Air Force in April 1951, served in Northern Africa and was honorably discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in December 1953.

He married Marion K. Oberton on June 5, 1954, at St. Patrick's Church, Watertown, with the Rev. William H. Coffey officiating.

Surviving besides his wife are two sons and a daughter-in-law, Michael, and his companion, Linda Mellen, Carthage, and Patrick and Nancy, Evans Mills; a brother and his wife, Thomas and Ellen, Watertown; three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Irene O'Connor, East Amherst, Mary and Dan Lynch, Grand Island, and Kathleen and Douglas Salmon, Sun City Center, Fla.; eight grandchildren, a great-grandson, and several nieces and nephews.

Donations may be made to the Black River Ambulance Squad or St. Paul's Catholic Church, Black River.