Rocco Pauletti

Rocco A. Pauletti, age 53, from Le Sueur, MN passed away at home on December 12, 2022. The memorial service will be at 5 p.m. on Monday, December 19, 2022 at the Kolden Funeral Home in LeSueur. A short Masonic Memorial service will follow the memorial service at approximately 5:45 p.m.  A time of visitation will be from 3 to 5 p. m. at the Kolden Funeral Home.

Rocco, born on August 10, 1969, was son to Roger Pauletti Sr. and Patricia Connor. He enjoyed camping, fishing, sitting around the campfire and experiencing the outdoors. Rocco loved listening to music, often very loudly. Sometimes so loud his dad had to bang on the wall to say, “turn it down”.

Rocco was a survivor of childhood cancer and had a strength and huge heart not often seen.

Mr. Rocco, as he was known by the children at work, loved his family at the St. Peter school district. He was known and loved by his South Elementary Family. They will always remember him for his kindness. He will be greatly missed by all the students and staff. In recent years he joined and became a 3rd. Degree Mason with Nicollet Lodge # 54 in St. Peter, Minnesota

Rocco was loved by many friends who loved him like family.

Rocco is preceded in death by his father, Roger Pauletti Sr.; grandparents, Dorothy and Lawrence J. Cicio; and Victor and Clara Pauletti.

He is survived by his mother, Patricia Connor, and siblings, Helmut Fritz, Christianna Salazar, Alecia Wright Pauletti, and Matthew Pauletti, and many beloved aunts, uncles, cousins and nieces.