Wife of the noted Irish tenor, Count John McCormack, whom she married in 1906.
Marriage.
John Francis McCormack, a bachelor, a Gentleman, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, son of Andrew McCormack, a Gentleman, married Elizabeth Foley, a spinster, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, daughter of Patrick Foley, on 20 July 1906, at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
The witnesses were
Thomas Bennett
Bridget Foley.
Her older brother
Thomas Foley
of 12, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, drowned in the sinking of
R.M.S. Leinster
on 10 October 1918.
Obituary.
published in the New York Times, 28 April 1971.
DUBLIN, April 27—Mrs. Lily Foley McCormack, widow of John McCormack, the great Irish tenor, died Monday in St. Vincent's Hospital. She was 84 years old and had been ill since last May.
She will be buried Thursday in Dean's Grange Cemetery, beside her husband.
Maintained Home Here
Mrs. McCormack, a noted soprano in her youth, met her husband when both were singing ing in the choir at the Berkley Road Catholic Church in Dublin. They were married in 1906, when she was 19 and he was 21.
During Mr. McCormack's career on the concert stage the couple traveled all over the world. Mr. McCormack died in September, 1945. Thereafter his widow made her home in New York, recently at 825 Fifth Avenue, and spent winters in Arizona. She was visiting her son, Cyril, in Dublin last year when she was stricken.
The McCormacks also had daughter, Gwendolyn, now Mrs. Edward Pike, and adopted a nephew, Kevin Foley, after Mrs. McCormack's brother and his wife were lost in 1918 on a ship sunk by a German submarine.
John McCormack was made Papal count in 1928 and his son inherited the title. There are five grandchildren; Cyril has two daughters and a son and Gwendolyn a son and daughter.
Mrs. McCormack wrote a book, “I Hear You Calling Me,” the name of a song her husband sang many times through out the world. Her book, an autobiography, recounts her life with the great tenor, and her circle of friends, which included Caruso, Rachmaninoff, Toscanini and Kreisler.
Marriage.
John Francis McCormack, a bachelor, a Gentleman, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, son of Andrew McCormack, a Gentleman, married Elizabeth Foley, a spinster, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, daughter of Patrick Foley, on 20 July 1906, at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
The witnesses were
Thomas Bennett
Bridget Foley.
Her older brother
Thomas Foley
of 12, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, drowned in the sinking of
R.M.S. Leinster
on 10 October 1918.
Obituary.
published in the New York Times, 28 April 1971.
DUBLIN, April 27—Mrs. Lily Foley McCormack, widow of John McCormack, the great Irish tenor, died Monday in St. Vincent's Hospital. She was 84 years old and had been ill since last May.
She will be buried Thursday in Dean's Grange Cemetery, beside her husband.
Maintained Home Here
Mrs. McCormack, a noted soprano in her youth, met her husband when both were singing ing in the choir at the Berkley Road Catholic Church in Dublin. They were married in 1906, when she was 19 and he was 21.
During Mr. McCormack's career on the concert stage the couple traveled all over the world. Mr. McCormack died in September, 1945. Thereafter his widow made her home in New York, recently at 825 Fifth Avenue, and spent winters in Arizona. She was visiting her son, Cyril, in Dublin last year when she was stricken.
The McCormacks also had daughter, Gwendolyn, now Mrs. Edward Pike, and adopted a nephew, Kevin Foley, after Mrs. McCormack's brother and his wife were lost in 1918 on a ship sunk by a German submarine.
John McCormack was made Papal count in 1928 and his son inherited the title. There are five grandchildren; Cyril has two daughters and a son and Gwendolyn a son and daughter.
Mrs. McCormack wrote a book, “I Hear You Calling Me,” the name of a song her husband sang many times through out the world. Her book, an autobiography, recounts her life with the great tenor, and her circle of friends, which included Caruso, Rachmaninoff, Toscanini and Kreisler.
Wife of the noted Irish tenor, Count John McCormack, whom she married in 1906.
Marriage.
John Francis McCormack, a bachelor, a Gentleman, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, son of Andrew McCormack, a Gentleman, married Elizabeth Foley, a spinster, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, daughter of Patrick Foley, on 20 July 1906, at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
The witnesses were
Thomas Bennett
Bridget Foley.
Her older brother
Thomas Foley
of 12, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, drowned in the sinking of
R.M.S. Leinster
on 10 October 1918.
Obituary.
published in the New York Times, 28 April 1971.
DUBLIN, April 27—Mrs. Lily Foley McCormack, widow of John McCormack, the great Irish tenor, died Monday in St. Vincent's Hospital. She was 84 years old and had been ill since last May.
She will be buried Thursday in Dean's Grange Cemetery, beside her husband.
Maintained Home Here
Mrs. McCormack, a noted soprano in her youth, met her husband when both were singing ing in the choir at the Berkley Road Catholic Church in Dublin. They were married in 1906, when she was 19 and he was 21.
During Mr. McCormack's career on the concert stage the couple traveled all over the world. Mr. McCormack died in September, 1945. Thereafter his widow made her home in New York, recently at 825 Fifth Avenue, and spent winters in Arizona. She was visiting her son, Cyril, in Dublin last year when she was stricken.
The McCormacks also had daughter, Gwendolyn, now Mrs. Edward Pike, and adopted a nephew, Kevin Foley, after Mrs. McCormack's brother and his wife were lost in 1918 on a ship sunk by a German submarine.
John McCormack was made Papal count in 1928 and his son inherited the title. There are five grandchildren; Cyril has two daughters and a son and Gwendolyn a son and daughter.
Mrs. McCormack wrote a book, “I Hear You Calling Me,” the name of a song her husband sang many times through out the world. Her book, an autobiography, recounts her life with the great tenor, and her circle of friends, which included Caruso, Rachmaninoff, Toscanini and Kreisler.
Marriage.
John Francis McCormack, a bachelor, a Gentleman, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, son of Andrew McCormack, a Gentleman, married Elizabeth Foley, a spinster, from 28 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, daughter of Patrick Foley, on 20 July 1906, at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
The witnesses were
Thomas Bennett
Bridget Foley.
Her older brother
Thomas Foley
of 12, Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin, drowned in the sinking of
R.M.S. Leinster
on 10 October 1918.
Obituary.
published in the New York Times, 28 April 1971.
DUBLIN, April 27—Mrs. Lily Foley McCormack, widow of John McCormack, the great Irish tenor, died Monday in St. Vincent's Hospital. She was 84 years old and had been ill since last May.
She will be buried Thursday in Dean's Grange Cemetery, beside her husband.
Maintained Home Here
Mrs. McCormack, a noted soprano in her youth, met her husband when both were singing ing in the choir at the Berkley Road Catholic Church in Dublin. They were married in 1906, when she was 19 and he was 21.
During Mr. McCormack's career on the concert stage the couple traveled all over the world. Mr. McCormack died in September, 1945. Thereafter his widow made her home in New York, recently at 825 Fifth Avenue, and spent winters in Arizona. She was visiting her son, Cyril, in Dublin last year when she was stricken.
The McCormacks also had daughter, Gwendolyn, now Mrs. Edward Pike, and adopted a nephew, Kevin Foley, after Mrs. McCormack's brother and his wife were lost in 1918 on a ship sunk by a German submarine.
John McCormack was made Papal count in 1928 and his son inherited the title. There are five grandchildren; Cyril has two daughters and a son and Gwendolyn a son and daughter.
Mrs. McCormack wrote a book, “I Hear You Calling Me,” the name of a song her husband sang many times through out the world. Her book, an autobiography, recounts her life with the great tenor, and her circle of friends, which included Caruso, Rachmaninoff, Toscanini and Kreisler.
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