MARIE D. O’NEILL, PHILADELPHIA
…… OBITUARY ……
Posted by Site Admin | May 12, 2018
MARIE DOLORES O’NEILL, “LORI”, PASSED AWAY MAY 5TH, 2018 AT PENN HOSPICE AT 73 YEARS OF AGE. LEFT-HANDED AND SHE COPED VERY WELL IN A RIGHT-HANDED WORLD. LORI NEVER MARRIED SO SHE WAS WITHOUT CHILDREN. SHE HAD MANY RELATIVES, FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS OVER THE YEARS. LORI WAS LOVED, BEAUTIFUL AND SMART.
MARIE LIVED IN THE OXFORD CIRCLE SECTION OF PHILLY FOR 53 YEARS AND IN THE LOGAN/ART MUSEUM AREA FOR 20 YEARS. SHE GRADUATED FROM SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS; LITTLE FLOWER HIGH, AND RECEIVED HER DEGREE FROM TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. SHE WAS A PARALEGAL MANAGER AT DECHERT LLP AKA. DECHERT PRICE AND RHODES, AN INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM OF MORE THAN 900 LAWYERS IN 28 LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD.
HER HALF GREAT GRANDUNCLES, PAT AND MIKE SHUGRUE WERE SHERIFFS IN DODGE CITY AND PAT SUCCEEDED WILLIAM B. (BAT) MASTERSON.
THE IRISH ROOTS OF MARIE ARE LONG AND DEEP WITH SOME ANCESTORS COMING FROM CASTLEMAINE, OTHERS FROM CORK IN IRELAND AND SOME FROM GERMANY, BUT THE LITHUANIAN ROOTS ARE DEEPEST. HER LITHUANIAN GRANDMOTHER, JOSEPHINE PALRUSKA~”MACHUTE”, HER LITHUANIAN GRANDFATHER FRITZIS STAEGIS BOTH IMAGRATED FROM LITHUANIA, CITY OR AREA UNKNOWN TO THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL REGION.
GRANDPOP O’NEILL, — WILLIAM J. SR, WAS IRISH AND GERMAN & GRANDMOTHER KATHRYN (CATHERINE?) EMANUAL ALLISON RAITH WHOSE FATHER WAS A GERMAN RAITH AND WHOSE MOTHER WAS AN IRISH SUGHRUE THEREFORE KATHERINE WAS 50% IRISH AND 50% GERMAN WHOSE SHUGRUE GRANDMOTHER WAS AN IRISH SUGHRUE AND IRISH FLAVAHAN FROM TIMOTHY SUGHRUE AND JULIA CRONIN. CRONIN CAME FROM A CRONIN AND A MCHENRY. THE SUGHRUE INFO GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1793. ON THE RAITH (German), SIDE THE RECORD SHOWS IT GOES BACK TO ABOUT 1760 OR SO IN THE SOUTH WEST OF GERMANY AND THE AREA AROUND HEIDELBERG, BADEN-WURTEMBURG AND THE BLACK FORREST. We just found out that Raith is a Scottish name which makes more sense because Scotland is so much closer to Ireland.
ON MOM’S SIDE 100% LITHUANIAN.
DAD WAS 75% IRISH, 25% GERMAN, – BASED ON HALF OF HIS FATHERS ANCESTRY AND HALF OF HIS MOTHERS although he may have been 25% Scottish and 75% Irish.
SO MARIE WAS 50% LITHUANIAN FROM MOM AND 37.5% IRISH AND 12.5% GERMAN or Scottish FROM DAD.
LORI WAS CLEARLY LIGHT-HEARTED AND HAPPIEST IN HER CENTER CITY PHILLY HOME.
MARIE LOVED COSMOPOLITAN PHILADELPHIA, GREAT LIBATIONS AND HER BROTHERS, THEIR WIVES, ESPECIALLY JANET AND HER NIECES AND NEPHEWS. LORI’S HOBBIES INCLUDED TRAVELLING WITH TRIPS TO EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN LOCATIONS, –LITHUANIA, MOROCCO, EGYPT, PRAGUE, PARIS, AND IRELAND AS WELL AS NOVA SCOTIA AND KANSAS. SHE PLAYED THE PIANO AND WAS AN EXPERT SEANSTRESS. SHE LEFT BEHIND TWO OLDER BROTHERS, BILL AND FRANK; FIVE NIECES, TERREE, TRACI, SUZANNE, NANCY AND MEGAN; ONE NEPHEW, CHRISTOPHER; FIVE GRANDNIECES AUTUMN, SEQUOYA, AIDYN, BRYN, AND FRANCESCA, FOUR GRANDNEPHEWS, HUNTER, ROARK, ZACHERY AND EGAN, A GRANDNEICE CAROLINE, AND A GREAT GRAND STEP-NEPHEW ALEX SCOFIELD OF PHILADELPHIA, AS WELL AS HER COUSINS PATRICIA DOYLE-KRAS, ED, DORTHY AND DAVE DANASAVICH, FRANK MCDONALD, JOE, PAUL AND ANTON STONE.
HER DODGE CITY ANCESTORS, THE TWIN SHERIFFS PAT AND MIKE SHUGRUE WERE BORN IN COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND. MARIE WAS DELIGHTED TO TRAVEL TO DODGE CITY, KANSAS FOR A SHUGRUE FAMILY REUNION.
MARIE RARELY MISSED A BIRTHDAY, A DANCE RECITAL, OR A FAMILY GATHERING. SHE ENJOYED HER INDEPENDENT COSMOPOLITAN LIFE IN THE CITY AS WELL AS HER TRAVELS TO OTHER PLACES AND TO THE HOMES OF HER RELATIVES. HER ASHES WILL BE SUITABLY DISPERSED OVER HER PARENTS GRAVE. LORI IS LOVED AND SADLY MISSED. SHE REMAINS IN OUR HEARTS AND OUR MEMORY.
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