

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Staten Island native Raymond A. Wickert Sr., 91, of Sunnyside, a decorated World War II veteran who was a retired National Guard mechanic, died Dec. 29 in Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton.
Born and raised in Castleton Corners, Mr. Wickert had lived in Sunnyside for 56 years.
An alumnus of McKee High School, he was drafted into the Army during World War II. As an Army sergeant, he participated in the Allied invasion of Italy on Anzo Beach and was awarded the Army's Silver Star for bravery during combat conditions.
After the war, he returned home and worked as a mechanic for a brief time with Kieran & Wickert, a family-owned American Motors-Nash Rambler deadlership in Tompkinsville. He then took a job as a mechanic for the New York State National Guard, where he worked for more than 30 years servicing military vehicles out of the Manor Road Armory in Castleton Corners.
When he retired, in 1981, he and his wife ran the family-owned horse stable, the former Silver Lake Farms in Sunnyside, for several years until the property was sold.
Mr. Wickert was a member of the Watkins-Kellet Post, American Legion, Great Kills, and the National Guardsmen Association.
His wife of 62 years, the former Marie Franzreb, died in 2004.
Surviving are a son, Raymond Jr.; two daughters, Virginia Clemmensen and Nancy Wickert, and three grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were handled by the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners. Burial was in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
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