Chester Obremski, age 94, of Framingham, formerly of Hopkinton, died of heart failure on Sunday, November 24. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 56 years, Eleanor, in 1998. He is survived by two daughters, Beverly Young and her husband, Jeremiah, of Milford; and Anni Pearson and her husband, Rick, of Hopkinton. He is also survived by his brother Edward and Edward's wife, Eleanore, from Port Orange, Florida. He has three grandchildren, Jodi Pearson Keating and her husband, John, of Hopkinton; Kelli Pearson of Newton; and Sunni Pearson Beville and her husband, Michael, of Bellingham. He is also survived by seven great grandchildren: Meaghan Curran Buckley and her husband, Keith; Kerri Curran Kline and her husband, Andrew; Laci Keating; Hayes Pearson-Woodruff; Alli Pearson-Woodruff; Sienna Beville; and Braylon Beville. His one great-great grandchild, Madeline Kline, was born in September. In 1936, Chet joined the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC). Because he was only 16 years old, he used his older brother's birth certificate to qualify for enlistment, a common ruse during the Great Depression to obtain a desperately needed job. Initially, he was sent to Miles Standish State Forest in Plymouth, Massachusetts, installing drainage culverts. Soon thereafter, he transferred by train across the country to a CCC camp in Maupin, Oregon, where he worked for 3 more years. Men at this camp worked six days a week building dams, constructing roads, fighting forest fires, and felling mammoth trees with crosscut saws and axes. A tall, young man in great physical condition, fearless and with huge hands, Chet played football on the camp team as a receiver and a punter. He earned a monthly stipend of $30 of which he sent $25 home to his family. His mother, a young widow, supported five children by washing laundry. She came to America from Poland as a fourteen-year-old bride. Chet returned home when his older brother, Arthur, was killed in an auto accident and assumed the role of head of the family. He got a job at American Steel and Wire Company, walking many miles to work. Chet had a natural charm and an easy manner with people, so a part-time job with United Utilities as a door-to-door salesman became a successful, full-time job. He eventually landed a job with Frito-Lay distributing snack foods to local stores. He managed to increase sales on every route he was assigned during the twenty five years he worked for the company. Eventually, he became an independent, wholesale distributer for Frito-Lay. Chet became a fourth-degree knight of the Knights of Columbus. He belonged to the Polish National Association of Worcester. He was an active member of Columbus Hall in Framingham and was a regular at playing cards and bocce. After retiring, he worked part-time as a bartender in Framingham. He was an excellent golfer, winning a championship tournament at Marlboro Country Club by sinking a clutch putt on the eighteenth hole to tie the match and holing a long putt on the third play-off hole for the victory. For years, he was a volunteer marshall and hole captain during the PGA tournaments held at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton. Chet was an amateur boxer while in the CCC's and was a fan of boxing all his life. He attended many of "Irish" Mickey Ward fights and enjoyed watching televised bouts on HBO. Calling hours will be at the Matarese Funeral Home, 325 Main St., Ashland on Monday, December 2nd from5-7PM A funeral mass will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd at 10AM in the Chapel at St. Patrick's Manor, 863 Central Street, Framingham, MA . In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Chet's memory be made to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 (www.stjude.org/waystohelp), or The Paulist Center, 5 Park St., Boston, MA 02108. www.paulistboston.com