The Patriot Ledger Quincy, Massachusetts Obituaries  1993-1998

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
November 29, 1993
Page: 26
QUINCY -- Madeline M. (Murphy) Fitzgerald, 87, of Quincy, a former employee of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., died Saturday in Metrowest Medical Center, Framingham, after a long illness.
Mrs. Fitzgerald was born in Springfield and lived in Newton before moving to Quincy 17 years ago.
She graduated from high school in Ayer and was an alumna of Salem Normal School. Mrs. Fitzgerald retired from John Hancock in 1963.
Wife of the late William Fitzgerald, she is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Danker of North Falmouth and Barbara Barlow of Ashland; two brothers, Bernard Murphy of West Roxbury and Gerald Murphy of Dedham; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and five nephews.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Tuesday in St. Cecilia's Church, 55 Esty St., Ashland. Burial will be in St. Bernard's Cemetery, Ashland.
Visiting is from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Matarese Funeral Home, 325 Main St., Ashland.


The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
January 12, 1994
CANTON -- Charles E. Greenwood, 72, of Canton, a truck driver for APA Transportation Co., Canton, for 29 years, and a member of the Teamsters Union Local 25, died Tuesday at home.
Mr. Greenwood, who retired in 1978, was an Army veteran of World War II.  Born in Lowell, he lived in Mattapan before moving to Canton 23 years ago.
He is survived by his wife, Mary E. (Manning) Greenwood; a son, Dennis Greenwood of Hopkinton; three brothers, George G. Greenwood of Florida, Daniel F. Greenwood of Maine and Paul Boisvert of Arizona; a sister, Edith Barlow of Stoneham, and two granddaughters.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Gerard Majella Church. Burial will be in Milton Cemetery.
Visiting is from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, 326 Granite Ave., Milton.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
February 05, 1994
Page: 48
STOUGHTON -- Concetta "Kitty" (Giacobbe) Palladino, 77, of Stoughton, a volunteer for the Friends of the Elderly, died Friday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Mrs. Palladino helped served daily luncheons for the elderly in Stoughton for several years.
Born in Monson, she was one of 13 children of Italian immigrant parents. Her father, a hat maker, took the train to Springfield each day to work.
She had a pony while she was growing up in the small western Massachusetts town. She attended Monson High School.
Her daughter, Joanne A. Barlow of Stoughton, said Friday her mother used to take her and her brothers to visit in Monson when they were small. She noted that her country home there had limited plumbing.
As a young woman, Mrs. Palladino moved to Boston's South End and worked as a stitcher in the garment industry before her marriage.
She met her first husband, Carmen F. Covino, while working in a bakery. Mr. Covino died 30 years ago. She later married Rocco L. Palladino, who also predeceased her.
Mrs. Barlow said her mother was an excellent Italian cook and made outstanding lentil soup.  Because meat was not always readily available when she was a youngster, she learned to create many dishes with various kinds of beans.
A regular at Tuesday night bingo games in the Knights of Columbus Hall in Canton, she usually picked up a couple of friends and took them with her.
"She had a little blue Escort and she had a blue flower on it so she could find it easily in parking lots," her daughter said.
Mrs. Palladino often drove her non-driving friends to their beauty shop appointments and other places.
She traveled to Italy with a group from the Daughters of Italy, of which she was a member. She loved seeing Florence and Rome and visiting the cathedrals.
She moved to Stoughton 16 years ago. She also was a member of the Stoughton Golden Agers.
Mrs. Palladino is also survived by two sons, Pasquale "Pat" Covino of Stoughton and Carmen F. Covino Jr. of East Boston; six brothers, Sam Giacobbe, Guy Giacobbe and Anthony Jacobs, all of Dedham, Frank Giacobbe of Florida, Joseph Giacobbe of East Sandwich, and Nicholas Giacobbe of Revere; four sisters, Ann Orlando of Saugus, Mary
DePesa of Hanson, Rose DeCenzo of East Dennis and Grace Ducie of West Roxbury; and seven grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Monday at the Immaculate Conception Church.
Burial will be in Gethsemane Cemetery, West Roxbury.
Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Farley Funeral Home, 358 Park St.
Donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen St., Framingham  01701-4688.
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, Massachusetts
September 12, 1994   Page: 24
QUINCY -- Axel Lennart Ringquist of Quincy died Sunday.
Husband of the late Esther G. (Lang) Ringquist, Mr. Ringquist is survived by a son, A. Lennart Ringquist Jr. of Los Angeles; two daughters, Harriet A. Barlow of Jacksonville, Fla.  and Carolyn V. Maloney of Plymouth; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday in Faith Lutheran Church, 209 Granite St.
Burial will be in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree.
Visiting is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Keohane Funeral Home, 785 Hancock St.,  Wollaston.
Donations may be made to scholarship fund, South Shore Viking Assn., 410 Quincy Ave., East Braintree 02184.
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Patriot Ledger Quincy, Massachusetts
September 13, 1994
Page: 26
QUINCY -- Axel Lennart Ringquist decided to come to the United States from his native Kalvsvik, Sweden, for a vacation when he was 18 years old.   His daughter, Carolyn Maloney of Plymouth, said yesterday, "He must have liked it. He never went back home again."
Mr. Ringquist, who was active in Scandanavian organizations in this country for many years, died Sunday in Quincy Hospital after a brief illness.   He was 86.
He was past chief of Stenkil Lodge, one of the lodges in the Independent Order of Vikings. The name means stone-wedge, a tool used for splitting granite by Swedish immigrants who worked in the Quincy quarries.
He was a member of the Vasa Order of the American-Skandia Lodge, the oldest Swedish-American organization in the United States, and of the Viking Club of Quincy.
Carolyn Maloney said her parents enjoyed dancing at the South Shore Viking Association in Braintree, where Mr. Ringquist was a member. As recently as last week, she said, her father was still dancing with friends -- with the help of his walker.
He grew up on the family farm in Sweden and after his father died when he was a young boy, he and his five brothers were raised by their mother.
After he came to America, Mr. Ringquist married Esther G. Lang, who was born in Boston but grew up and lived in Sweden before moving back to the United States when she was 16 years old. They were married in Dorchester in 1929.
The Ringquists settled in Boston, where he became a valet, moving in 1932 to East Braintree where they lived for 53 years.
With the advent of World War II, Mr. Ringquist established his trade as a pipefitter, working at the Charlestown Navy Yard. He was a member of Plumbers Union Local 12 in Boston for 45 years before retiring in 1972 and was a member of the retirees club of the local.  Since the 1960s, he and his wife summered in Vermont near the Canadian border, where they
spent time refurbishing a summer home. They moved to 1000 Southern Artery apartments for senior citizens in Quincy in 1985.   Mrs. Ringquist died in 1992.
A 32nd degree Mason, Mr. Ringquist was a member of the Shriners, Rural Masonic Lodge in Quincy, Aleppo Temple, Wilmington, and the Scottish Rite Bodies Valley of Boston.  Mr. Ringquist is also survived by a son, A. Lennart Ringquist Jr. of California; another daughter, Harriet A. Barlow of Florida; 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Faith Lutheran Church by the Rev. James Kimmell, pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, Quincy. Burial will be in Blue Hill Cemetery, Braintree.
Visiting is from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Keohane Funeral Home, 785 Hancock St., Wollaston.
Donations may be made to the South Shore Viking Association Scholarship Fund, 410 Quincy Ave., East Braintree 02148.
 The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
 August 31, 1995
 Page: 33
KINGSTON -- Shirley (Chapman) Iritsky, 60, of Kingston, a former teacher's aide, newspaper columnist and actress, died Monday in New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston.
Mrs. Iritsky was a founder of the former Kingston Players and when the group disbanded she joined the Duxbury Bay Players, later named The Bay Players, where she was a member of the board.
She and her husband, Louis Iritsky, had small children when they first started in the play group, so they took turns working on plays. As the children grew older they were able to work on the same ventures together.
"She loved to make hats from scratch," her husband said. "She once made one for me from a pizza box and a pair of pantyhose."
In a critique after Mrs. Iritsky's performance at a Brandeis University Community Plays Festival the judge described her voice as "warm liquid chocolate," her husband said. Her favorite job in the theater was producing. She produced three plays in one year and this summer produced one from a wheelchair.
Mrs. Iritsky was born in Calcutta, India, when it was under British rule and her family was connected with the British military. During World War II, she was sent to Darjeeling in northern India, an area considered safe from Japanese invaders.
Her father died after the war and when her mother married an American doctor, E. Robert Barlow of Winchester, and moved to the United States, she could not join them because she  held an Indian passport.  She attended the Schute School, a private girls school in Devon, England, where she played the male lead in several plays.
At age 14, through the intervention of a congressman, Shirley Chapman was allowed to come  to the United States under an Indian quota. She organized neighborhood youngsters in Winchester into performers and staged plays for which she charged a quarter.
Mrs. Iritsky graduated from Winchester High School in 1953 and attended art school at Boston University.
While living in a third-floor furnished apartment on Boston's Marlboro Street, she met Louis Iritsky, who had a first-floor apartment and shared a common kitchen. Mr. Iritsky said that when they were engaged her mother made him move out of the building.
They married on June 11, 1960, and lived in Cambridge for a time before moving to Kingston.
Mrs. Iritsky was a kindergarten teacher's aide. She loved cats and whenever there was an overabundance of them at her home, she took a basketful of kittens to kindergarten. "By the end of the day, the children would be begging their parents to let them take one home," Louis Iritsky said.
She was a cartoonist and columnist for the Kingston Independent Voice newspaper and a free-lance proofreader. "She got a kick out of finding typographical errors in technical books," her husband said.
Mrs. Iritsky was diagnosed with lymphoma a year ago and underwent chemotherapy.
She is also survived by a son and daughter, Keith Iritsky of New Jersey and Victoria Iritsky of Boston;  a brother, Christopher Barlow of Florida; two sisters, Linda Barlow and Heather Goss, both of Acton; five grandchildren and several nieces.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. John the Evangelist Church, 410 Washington St., Duxbury.
Funeral arrangements were made by Bartlett-Garrity Funeral Home, Plymouth.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
December 11, 1995
Page: 28
BOSTON -- Margaret Keith, 95, of Boston, a retired employee of the Stride-Rite Co. in Boston for many years, died Friday in Jordan Hospital, Plymouth, after a long illness.
She was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Wife of the late John Keith, she is survived by a daughter, Patricia Barlow of Cohasset, two grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements for the private funeral service and burial are being made by McNamara-Sparrel Funeral Home, Cohasset.
There are no visiting hours.  Donations may be made to Children's Hospital, Boston.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MASSACHUSETTS
April 25, 1996
Page: 36
NORWELL -- Barbara A. (Barlow) O'Neill, 56, of Norwell, a communications specialist and a skilled horsewoman, died of cancer Tuesday at her home.
Mrs. O'Neill, a contract employee for The Boston Globe, worked at racetracks at Suffolk Downs and Rockingham Park typing race information into a computer and transmitting it to the newspaper.
Her friend and colleague, Ron Indrisano of the Globe staff, wrote in a tribute to her Wednesday that "her hands flew faster than any racehorse could run. She was extremely professional, well organized and always punctual." She had been doing that job for about 15 years.
Mr. Indrisano described her as a person who enjoyed jibes, jokes, stories and banter and who talked to everybody and anybody.
Her daughter, Deborah Petro of Florida, said Wednesday that Mrs. O'Neill had kept a "to-do list" for many years, writing down in advance everything that she planned to do for that day. "She tried to get her daughters to do it also," Mrs. Petro said. Mrs. O'Neill had owned a horse named Whiskey for 15 years and kept the animal stabled in Hanover. Her daughter said she rode every day and took part in minor local races. Whiskey died a couple of years ago.
Mrs. O'Neill began riding as a youngster and did a lot of it during the time she lived in Canada.
In her younger years, she modeled clothing in Boston. She later worked at Amfax Communication, transmitting the results of major sports events to newspapers around the country. That job required a lot of traveling.
Mrs. O'Neill was especially happy to have been able to attend Deborah's wedding in February in Florida. "She became ill shortly after that," Mrs. Petro said.
Barbara O'Neill was born in Waltham, grew up in Quincy, and was a 1957 graduate of North Quincy High School.
She is also survived by a son, Thomas O'Neill of Florida; another daughter, Tracey O'Neill of Hingham; her mother, Frances Keswick Barlow of Quincy; a sister, Donna Lee Barlow of
Sandwich; a granchild and two nieces.
A graveside service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Washington Street Cemetery.
Visiting will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday in the McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home, 30 Central St, Norwell Center.
Donations may be made to the National Wildlife Federation, 1400 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-2266.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
April 22, 1996
Page: 24
ATTLEBORO -- Donald E. Morse, 73, of Attleboro, a retired American Telephone and Telegraph employee and a former sexton at Allin Congregational Church, Dedham, died Saturday at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
Mr. Morse was an Army veteran of World War II.
He was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and Telephone Pioneers.
He was born in Willimantic, Conn., and lived in Dedham 40 years before moving to Attleboro.
He is survived by his wife, Alice D. (Norton) Morse; a son, Christopher D. Barlow of Southbridge; a daughter, Rita T. Barlow of Mansfield; a brother, Vernon Brown; and four grandchildren. He was the father of the late Marie D. DeCenzo.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Mary's Church, Dedham.
Burial will be in Gethsemane Cemetery, West Roxbury.
Visiting is 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in George F. Doherty and Sons Wilson-Cannon Funeral Home, 456 High St., Dedham.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
May 12, 1997
Page: 25
SHARON -- Marguerite Dooley, 82, of Sharon died Saturday at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.
Miss Dooley is survived by a nephew, Paul McCarthy of Braintree; and three nieces, Dorothy Grasso of Weymouth, Diane Palermo of Braintree and Denise Barlow of Middleboro.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Tuesday in Our Lady of Sorrows Church. Burial will be in Rock Ridge Cemetery. Visiting is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Joseph P. Keating Funeral Home, 46 S. Main St.
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The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
May 13, 1997
Page: 28
SHARON -- Marguerite Dooley, 82, of Sharon died Saturday at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.
Miss Dooley is survived by a nephew, Paul McCarthy of Braintree; and three nieces, Dorothy Grasso of Weymouth, Diane Palermo of Braintree and Denise Barlow of Middleboro. A funeral Mass was celebrated Tuesday morning in Our Lady of Sorrows Church. Burial was in Rock Ridge Cemetery. The Joseph P. Keating Funeral Home made the arrangements.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
September 06, 1997
Page: 49
WALPOLE -- Phyllis Mary (O'Neil) Forster, 87, of Walpole, a homemaker, died Thursday at The Care Matrix Nursing Facility in Dedham. Mrs. Forster had been a Walpole resident for the last year. Previously, she lived 19 years in Centerville and 18 years in Jamaica Plain.
Mrs. Forster was born in Boston where she graduated from Girls Latin School in 1928 and Boston State Teachers College in 1932. Later, she returned to Boston State College for a master's degree in education.
For most of her adult life, Mrs. Forster cared for her family.
Wife of the late William Andrew Forster, she is survived by a son, Jeffrey Forster of Walpole; a daughter, Marianne Barlow of Woodstock, Ga.; 12 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. She was also the mother of the late Kevin O. Forster.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday in Blessed Sacrament Church. Burial will be St. Joseph's Cemetery, West Roxbury.
Visiting is from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the James H. Delaney & Son Funeral Home, 48 Common St.
Donations may be made to Walpole Area Visiting Nurse Association, PO Box 252, Walpole 02081.

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
October 27, 1997
Page: 29
BROCKTON -- Jane F. (Barlow) Torrey, 67, of Brockton died Friday at home. She enjoyed reading and sewing.
Mrs. Torrey was born and raised in Plymouth and lived in Tewksbury before moving to Brockton 15 years ago.
She is survived by two sons, Stephen Torrey of South Easton and Theodore Torrey of Hartford, Conn.; adaughter,
Candace Torrey of Tewksbury; a brother and a sister, George J. Barlow and Joyce M. Cahill, both of Tewksbury; seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Nov. 3 in St. Peter's Church, Plymouth. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Plymouth.
Arrangements were made by South Shore Cremation Services, affiliate of Hickey-Grenier Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to Retarded Adult Rehabilitation Assn. of Greater Lowell, 295 High St., Lowell 01850.
 The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
September 26, 1998
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QUINCY --  William T. O'Keefe, 84, of Quincy, a retired Quincy police officer, died Thursday at the Hollywell Nursing Home in Randolph after a long illness.
Mr. O'Keefe was a 32-year veteran of the Quincy police department. He retired in 1976. He was a member of the Robert I. Nickerson American Legion Post.
Born in Cambridge, he lived 50 years in Quincy. He is survived by his wife, Patricia A. (Clark) O'Keefe; two sons, William O'Keefe of Florida and Eugene O'Keefe of Georgia; a stepson, Daniel Largey of Quincy; two stepdaughters, Kathleen Solomon of Marlboro and Patricia Largey of North Attleboro; a brother, John O'Keefe of Virginia; two sisters, Mable Fowler of North Attleboro and Florence Barlow of Mississippi;  and two grandchildren.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at the Star of the Sea Church, Squantum. Burial will be in Mount Wollaston Cemetery.  Visiting is 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, 326 Granite Ave., Milton.
Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1115 West Chestnut St., Brockton  02401.

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