THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, August 27, 1995 TAG: 9508270010
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Joan McSweeney, 61, a longtime member of St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church, and Meals On Wheels volunteer, died Aug. 21, 1995, in a Virginia Beach hospital.
Joan was a loving wife and mother, and a native of Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland.
She is survived by her husband, John P. McSweeney; two sons, John W. of Virginia Beach, Neil E. of Lynchburg; one daughter, Rosemary F. Makepeace of Norfolk; one son-in-law, Lester B. Makepeace; one daughter-in-law, Andrea McSweeney; four grandchildren, Joey and Joanna Marie Makepeace, Katie and Ben McSweeney; two brothers, Patrick O'Sullivan of California and Denis O'Sullivan of Ireland; three sisters, Nora O'Leary and Teresa Kellehar of Ireland, and Sheila Becker of Michigan; sister-in-law, Eileen O'Sullivan of California; brothers-in-law, Julius Becker of Michigan and William F. McSweeney of California, Tadhg O'Driscoll and Paddy Kellehar of Ireland, and Harry Pymm of England. Joan was preceded in death by four sisters and two brothers.
A funeral mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 28, 1995, in St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church. Family and friends will assemble at Kellum Funeral Home, Kempsville/Pleasant Hall Chapel, at 9 a.m. and leave in procession to the funeral mass. Burial will be in Rosewood Memorial Park. A Christian wake service will be at 7 p.m. today in the Pleasant Hall Chapel of Kellum Funeral Home. The family will receive friends after the wake service from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
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