Obituary:
Source: The Worcester Evening Post
Monday, 2 May, 1932
Dennis M O'Leary 52 of 5 Deerfield St a resident of Worcester for many years and a close friend of Mayor John C Mahoney since their boyhood in Ireland and coming to this country together was burned to death when fire destroyed a bunkhouse near Shaft # 10 of the Swift River-Coldbrook water tunnel out of the Massachusetts Metropolitan system 5 miles from the town of Hardwick yesterday morning.
Mr O'Leary had been employed at the shaft as a bell tender since last October. He and another worker Edward Yanik of Gilbertville had worked all night and had been asleep for about 2 hours when the fire believe to have started in the cloths hung to dry near a stove about 10:30 a.m.
Mr O'Leary had worked for many years in the annealing department of the American Steel & Wire Co here. He was laid off last August due to lack of work and obtained work at the shaft last October. Most of the time since then he had lived at the construction camp. He made his home with his daughter here, Mrs Davis F Rhieu.
A widower he leaves 4 sons: Michael F, Joseph H, John J & Leo D O'Leary; 3 daughters Margaret M wife of Davis Rhieu, Helen A O'Leary of New York and Catherine known in religious life as Sr Miriam Agnes of the St Joseph order; 4 brothers Jeremiah of New York, Michael & Patrick of San Francisco, CA and John in Ireland.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning from Callahan Brothers funeral suite with a high mass of requiem in Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Internment in St John's Cemetery.
Source: The Worcester Evening Post
Monday, 2 May, 1932
Dennis M O'Leary 52 of 5 Deerfield St a resident of Worcester for many years and a close friend of Mayor John C Mahoney since their boyhood in Ireland and coming to this country together was burned to death when fire destroyed a bunkhouse near Shaft # 10 of the Swift River-Coldbrook water tunnel out of the Massachusetts Metropolitan system 5 miles from the town of Hardwick yesterday morning.
Mr O'Leary had been employed at the shaft as a bell tender since last October. He and another worker Edward Yanik of Gilbertville had worked all night and had been asleep for about 2 hours when the fire believe to have started in the cloths hung to dry near a stove about 10:30 a.m.
Mr O'Leary had worked for many years in the annealing department of the American Steel & Wire Co here. He was laid off last August due to lack of work and obtained work at the shaft last October. Most of the time since then he had lived at the construction camp. He made his home with his daughter here, Mrs Davis F Rhieu.
A widower he leaves 4 sons: Michael F, Joseph H, John J & Leo D O'Leary; 3 daughters Margaret M wife of Davis Rhieu, Helen A O'Leary of New York and Catherine known in religious life as Sr Miriam Agnes of the St Joseph order; 4 brothers Jeremiah of New York, Michael & Patrick of San Francisco, CA and John in Ireland.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning from Callahan Brothers funeral suite with a high mass of requiem in Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Internment in St John's Cemetery.
Obituary:
Source: The Worcester Evening Post
Monday, 2 May, 1932
Dennis M O'Leary 52 of 5 Deerfield St a resident of Worcester for many years and a close friend of Mayor John C Mahoney since their boyhood in Ireland and coming to this country together was burned to death when fire destroyed a bunkhouse near Shaft # 10 of the Swift River-Coldbrook water tunnel out of the Massachusetts Metropolitan system 5 miles from the town of Hardwick yesterday morning.
Mr O'Leary had been employed at the shaft as a bell tender since last October. He and another worker Edward Yanik of Gilbertville had worked all night and had been asleep for about 2 hours when the fire believe to have started in the cloths hung to dry near a stove about 10:30 a.m.
Mr O'Leary had worked for many years in the annealing department of the American Steel & Wire Co here. He was laid off last August due to lack of work and obtained work at the shaft last October. Most of the time since then he had lived at the construction camp. He made his home with his daughter here, Mrs Davis F Rhieu.
A widower he leaves 4 sons: Michael F, Joseph H, John J & Leo D O'Leary; 3 daughters Margaret M wife of Davis Rhieu, Helen A O'Leary of New York and Catherine known in religious life as Sr Miriam Agnes of the St Joseph order; 4 brothers Jeremiah of New York, Michael & Patrick of San Francisco, CA and John in Ireland.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning from Callahan Brothers funeral suite with a high mass of requiem in Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Internment in St John's Cemetery.
Source: The Worcester Evening Post
Monday, 2 May, 1932
Dennis M O'Leary 52 of 5 Deerfield St a resident of Worcester for many years and a close friend of Mayor John C Mahoney since their boyhood in Ireland and coming to this country together was burned to death when fire destroyed a bunkhouse near Shaft # 10 of the Swift River-Coldbrook water tunnel out of the Massachusetts Metropolitan system 5 miles from the town of Hardwick yesterday morning.
Mr O'Leary had been employed at the shaft as a bell tender since last October. He and another worker Edward Yanik of Gilbertville had worked all night and had been asleep for about 2 hours when the fire believe to have started in the cloths hung to dry near a stove about 10:30 a.m.
Mr O'Leary had worked for many years in the annealing department of the American Steel & Wire Co here. He was laid off last August due to lack of work and obtained work at the shaft last October. Most of the time since then he had lived at the construction camp. He made his home with his daughter here, Mrs Davis F Rhieu.
A widower he leaves 4 sons: Michael F, Joseph H, John J & Leo D O'Leary; 3 daughters Margaret M wife of Davis Rhieu, Helen A O'Leary of New York and Catherine known in religious life as Sr Miriam Agnes of the St Joseph order; 4 brothers Jeremiah of New York, Michael & Patrick of San Francisco, CA and John in Ireland.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning from Callahan Brothers funeral suite with a high mass of requiem in Church of the Blessed Sacrament. Internment in St John's Cemetery.
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