IN MEMORIAM
IN MEMORIAM
Prayer for Our Dead
We seem to give them back to Thee, O God, who gave them to us. Yet, as Thou did not lose them in giving, so we do not lose them by their return. Life is eternal and love immortal and death is only an horizon, and an horizon is nothing except the limit of our sight.
Lift us up, strong Son of God, that we may see further; cleanse our eyes that we may see more clearly; draw us closer to Thyself that we may know ourselves to be nearer to our loved ones who are with Thee.
Joan O’Brien, former National Right To Life Chair and National Life Member of the LAOH, passed on to her eternal reward on September 4, 2010.
Wake:
Wednesday 4 to 8 pm
Funeral Home:
William R. Short & Sons Funeral Home 95 West Main Street, Marlborough, MA
01752 phone: 508-485-0180
Hibernian Prayer Service
-Wednesday 9/7 at 7:00 pm at William R. Short & Sons Funeral Home.
Mass of Christian Burial:
Thursday, 9/8 at 11AM at Immaculate
MARY LYONS KING, PAST NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Mary Lyons King, age 101, died peacefully on September 7th , 2009 at Forest Farm Health Care Center. Mary was born in Newport, RI in 1908 to Patrick J. and Abbie Breen Lyons. A life-long Newport resident, Mary graduated from Rhode Island College and soon thereafter married her beloved husband, the late Charles J. King.
A teacher for more than 40 years, Mary began her career at the Paradise School, a one-room schoolhouse in Middletown, RI. For most of her career, Mary taught the elementary grades in several Newport Public Schools, including Lenthal, Cranston-Calvert, and John Clark.
Throughout her life, Mary was a devoted and active parishioner at Newport's St. Joseph's Church.
Following in her father's footsteps, Mary was active in the Ancient Order of Hibernians, holding various senior positions, including National President of the LAAOH.
A kind, gentle, and wonderful person, Mary opened her heart to family and friends. Mary's dearest family included her sister, the late Nora McDermott, her son, Charles Gerard King, her daughter-in-law, Ellen King, her grandchildren, Tara, Sean, and Michael, her great-grandchildren, Kylie, Daniel, Charlotte, and Madelyn , and her nephews, Raymond, John, David, and Dermot McDermott.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 9am in St. Joseph's Church, Broadway and Mann Ave., Newport. Burial at St. Columba Cemetery, Brown's Ln, Middletown. Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, September 10, from 4-6pm in the O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home, 465 Spring St., Newport, RI.
Contributions in Mary's honor may be made to the Forest Farm Health Care Center Activity Fund, 193 Forest Avenue, Middletown, RI 02842.
ELLEN S. BRADY, RHODE ISLAND STATE VICE-PRESIDENT
Ellen S. Brady, 57, of Halsey St. in Newport, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 13th at Newport Hospital. She was the wife of Joseph R. Brady. Born in Newport, RI on June 17th, 1952 at Newport Hospital, she was the daughter of Ruth E. Caswell of Saunderstown and the late Capt. Frederic C. Caswell Jr. - USN Ret.
Ellen graduated from the University of Rhode Island's School of Nursing in 1975. She worked as a Registered Nurse at Newport Hospital for more than 30 years. Ellen was a member of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians, of which she served as Secretary. She also served as Vice President of the RI State Board of Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians. She was an avid reader, a talented cook and a gifted knitter.
Besides her husband and mother, she leaves her daughter Amy Hansen and her husband LTJG John Hansen of Jacksonville, FL, daughter Kathryn Brady and son Joseph R. Brady III both of Newport, granddaughter Hannah Hansen, sister Judith Cushing of Newport, brother James Caswell of Saunderstown, and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, August 17th at 10 am in St. Joseph's Church, Broadway and Mann Ave., Newport. Visiting hours will be held from 3-6 pm on Sunday, August 16th in the O'Neill-Hayes Funeral Home, 465 Spring St., Newport.
Donations may be made in Ellen's name to the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Scholarship Fund, 2 Wellington Avenue, Newport, RI 02840.
SR. SARA MARIE HEALY (Submitted 2/10/2010)
Sr. Sara Marie Healy, past Chaplain, Division Eleven – (Oakland) Pittsburgh, PA. (Nov. 1908-Sept. 2008)
Sr. Sara Marie, a sister of Mercy, was known as a walking, talking, smiling advertisement for Carlow University (Mount Mercy Academy) in Pittsburgh. A diminutive woman with the boundless energy and keen Irish wit was the special assistant to the Carlow’s president prior to her retirement.
Quoted in a Pittsburgh Press article, Sister said she is living proof of the opportunities higher education offers women. In the 1940s, she was among the first women trained as aviation instructors for military pilots. It was during World War II that she became one of the first area women to be qualified as a ground instructor by the Civil Aeronautics Board. She was selected by her religious order, along with several other nuns involved in education, to take a US Government course to become aviation instructors at Latrobe, Westmoreland County. They were trained to teach aspiring pilots civil are regulations, meteorology and navigation and had to pass a pilot’s test.
When the war ended, she turned to nursing at Mercy Hospital where she instituted playtime therapy for children. Later, she was appointed director of St. Paul’s Orphanage, where she organized the school’s first orchestra, started the library and staged outdoor pageants.
The pageants sparked her interest in show biz so she was delighted when the religious order wanted her to create a TV series to attract women to nursing careers. In 1957 she wrote, produced and starred in seven shows over WQED called “Rx-TLC”.
During her nursing career she became interested in the Shriners’ burn hospital in Galveston, TX and after being hosted by them, returned to be a consultant when West Penn Hospital set up the area’s first burn unit in 1969.
In 1971 she was appointed director of Health Services at Carlow and in 1983 was appointed as special assistant to Carlow’s presidents – Sr. Marylouise Fennell and then Sr. Grace Ann Geibel.
She kept pictures of some of her former students including Dan Rooney, the United States Ambassador to Ireland and president of the Pittsburgh Steelers Football team when she taught at St Peter’s School on the North Side of Pittsburgh.
In 1996 she was named the first woman Grand Marshall of the Pittsburgh St. Patrick’s Day parade: in 1997 she was named “Citizen of the Year” by Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy; and in 1994 was named as Carlow University’s “Woman of Spirit”.
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