O’Brien of Lexington Kentucky formerly of Brockton March 17, 2005 Eileen T. (Kelleher) O'Brien, 91 years. Wife of the late Joseph F. O’Brien. Mother of Charles F. O’Brien and his wife Dee Ann (Matthews) and Maureen Will and her husband Randall T. Also survived by 5 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral from the Conley Funeral Home, 138 Belmont Street (Rte. 123) Brockton Tuesday at 8 AM. Funeral Mass in Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 9 AM. Visiting hours Monday 5-8pm. Burial in Calvary Cemetery. In memory of Eileen donations may be made to Hospice of the Bluegrass, 109 Shannon Parkway, Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356.
Mrs. O’Brien died at her home in Lexington, Kentucky, on Thursday morning. She was born on August 6, 1913, in Brockton, Massachusetts, the oldest of five children of Cornelius Kelleher, of County Cork, Ireland, and Mary Keefe, of County Kerry, Ireland, who had immigrated to the United States at about the turn of the century, and settled in Brockton.
Mrs. O’Brien grew up in the family homestead at 189 Dover Street, Brockton, Massachusetts, which her father and uncle built in 1914. She attended elementary school from the 1st to 4th grade at Harvard School and 5th to 8th grades at Whitman School. She spent summers at the beach house at Hamilton Beach which her father built in 1923.
She attended Brockton High School from 1927 to 1931. Mrs. O’Brien commuted from Brockton to attend Boston University, from 1931 to 1935, and received a B.S. degree in 1935. She taught high school in White River Junction, Vermont for six years before her marriage, returning each summer to Brockton and Hamilton Beach.
On November 9, 1942, during World War II, she married Joseph F. O'Brien, III, of Brockton, Massachusetts, at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, The Pas, Manitoba, Canada.
Joseph & Eileen O'Brien resided in Rhode Island, Maryland, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. Joseph F. O'Brien, III was in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, and worked for U.S. Navy, and Federal Aviation Agency. He died in Brockton, Massachusetts, on April 9, 1966, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery, Brockton, Massachusetts.
Mrs. O’Brien resided in Brockton, and later Bridgewater, Massachusetts, for many years. In 1989 she moved to Park Ridge, Illinois, where her daughter and son-in-law resided. In recent years she has made her home near her daughter and son-in-law in Lexington, Kentucky.
She is survived by her son Charles F. O'Brien and daughter-in-law Dee Ann (Matthews) O’Brien, of Claremont, California, and two granddaughters Andrea O’Brien, of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Karen O'Brien, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She is also survived by her daughter Maureen (O’Brien) Will, her son-in-law Randall T. Will, and three grandsons Ryan, Stephen and Christopher Will, of Lexington, Kentucky, and many nieces and nephews. Mrs. O'Brien was the sister of the late Rita Smith, John Kelleher and Doris Cassidy.