Joseph R. Andrews, Jr., 91, of Dartmouth died Thursday September 11, 2014 at St. Luke's Hospital after a brief illness. He was the husband of Edith (Correia) Andrews; they had been married for 66 years.
Born and raised in Mattapoisett, the son of the late Joseph R. and Beatrice (Monteiro-Faria) Andrews, he lived in Dartmouth for most of his life.
Mr. Andrews had been a master glazier for Guido's Plate Glass and Andrews Brothers Glass Company. He later served as a police officer for the New Bedford Police Department for 13 years. He later owned and operated Sean's Restaurant in Swansea and had been the executive chef at many of the leading restaurants and clubs in the area including the Kittansett Club, the Hawthorne Country Club, the Holiday Inn, P.J. Kelly's, and the Chatham Arms. He had been an instructor at New Bedford Vocational High School in the after school culinary arts program for at-risk students. His final career was serving as the Director of Food Service Operations at UMass Dartmouth until his retirement. He was featured in an article in the Fishing Gazette about catching scrod locally, flash freezing it and shipping it to other parts of the country arriving as fresh as when it was shipped.
During World War II, he served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the Battles of Luzon and New Guinea. He was a member of the Andrews-Dahill Post 1531, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
In his younger days, he played semi-professional baseball on teams in New Bedford and Cape Cod.
He is survived by his wife Edith; his children, Clyde A. Andrews and his companion, Susan Cadieux, City Councillor Naomi R.A. Carney, and Mark D. Andrews and his fiancée Colleen Jackson, all of New Bedford, and Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, former Chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, and her husband Daniel of Edgartown; five grandchildren, Sean Carney, Hilary Andrews, Kyle Andrews, Sydnee Carney, and Samantha Maltais; his son-in-law, Edward F. Carney; a close family friend, Roger Brightman; and many nieces and nephews.
He was the father of the late Jose R. Andrews III, and brother of the late Marjorie Payne, Roy Andrews, David Andrews, Mildred Barros, Pauline Collins, and Blanche Perry.
His Funeral will be held on Monday at 9 AM from the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St., New Bedford, followed by his Funeral Mass at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford at 10 AM. Burial will be at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne. Visiting hours will be on Sunday from 3-7 PM. For directions and guestbook, please visit www.saundersdwyer.com.