NOTICE - A PROBATE PETITION WITH WILL ANNEXED HAS BEEN FILED FOR DOROTHY LOUISE CONNOLLY, DECEASED JUNE 22 2010, IN HAMPDEN COUNTY PROBATE COURT , SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS USA CASE NO: HD10P1803EA

OBJECTIONS PERIOD NOW RUNNING.

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For family and friends ... Dorothy L. Connolly, died at her home June 22 2010 - Tuesday morning.

She is remembered well.  Her obituary http://obits.masslive.com/obituaries/masslive/obituary.aspx?n=dorothy-l-connolly&pid=143734879&fhid=5645" and guest book  https://www.legacy.com/guestbook/masslive/sponsor-guestbook.aspx?n=dorothy-connolly&pid=143734879">


Dorothy L. Connolly with two of her daughters and a granddaughter at her last birthday September 11 2009
Another obituary by her son Scott, is here:

Obituary

Dorothy L. Connolly

1924-2010

Dorothy L. Connolly, a 37 year resident of the Town of West Springfield, died at her home Tuesday June 22 2010. of natural causes. A resident of the town's Tatum Hill area neighborhoods at 9 Pilgrim Road, she enjoyed many years here in her later life's adopted hometown. The wife of a retired (at Westover AFB) and pre-deceased US Air Force officer (Lt. Col. Owen F. Connolly; also Administrator of Providence Hospital, Holyoke, she is survived by her children: Owen F. Connolly Jr., of Granby Massachusetts; Scott M. Connolly of WSprfld ; Linda A. Sullivan of WSprfld (Mrs. Robert D. Sullivan); Maureen E. (Mrs. Maureen E. Halpin) of Westfield Massachusetts;Sarah A. (Sally, Mrs. Daniel Cardetti of Sartell, Minnesota) ; Dorothy Eileen (Mrs. Albert R. Mason Jr. of Agawam-Feeding Hills); and Charles M. Connolly and wife Melissa of Newport News, Va.; seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson; and loving nieces and nephews. Dorothy was remembered at a funeral mass at her parish church of St. Thomas West Springfield, Friday June 25; and interred with her infant daughter Anne Louise, mother father and grandparents, g-grand parents at HolyHood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, Saturday morning June 26 2010. While she lived in West Springfield, she was a member of the Friends of the West Springfield Public Library; active elsewhere when she could be, particularly in her late husband's tenure at Providence Hospital & Sisters of Providence charities for Brightside and other organizations. Born in Newton, Massachusetts; she grew up in Lexington Massachusetts; Lexington HS Class of 1942; graduated Beale Business College; and married her husband Owen F. Connolly also of Lexington, Massachusetts at St. Bridgid's Church in 1947. The daughter of Charles Alexander McCormack (veteran USAEF YD WW I) & Anne Louise (nee Keefe); she was a grand-daughter of Daniel F. McCormack & Caroline May (he, deceased 1936 - a Dorchester-Mattapan land investor who had emigrated from P.E.I in 1867 - a British Isles ancestried descendant of Scottish Catholic PEI [ St John's Isle/Ile St Jean] settlers after the 1755 British reclamation of the maritimees). Dorothy Connolly's May great-grandparents emigrated to th USA in the 1830's to Boston from Baden (now part of Germany) and the Fitzmorrises from Ireland). On her mother's side; she was a great-grandaughter of John MacNeil & Anne Louise MacEachern;, also PEI emmigrated who settled in Chelsea, Mass. Her Keefe maternal grandparents mixed Scottish & Irish ancestries before immigrating to Canada; where her grandfather James B. Keefe was born; and married Mary Ellen MacNeil in PEI. A full and good American, Dorothy Connolly combined the ancestries of North American English-Scottish-French & Boston Irish & German ancestors.

She is loved and remembered by all her family and friends.

In her travels with her husband during his US Air Force career, she lived in: Fort Bragg North Carolina, Greenville South Carolina, New Braunfels, Texas; Chicopee Massachusetts (Westover AFB); Montgomery, Alabama; the United Kingdom - Burderop Park (nr Swindon & Wroughton, Wiltshire); Winterport & Bangor Maine; and returned to Westover AFB at Chicopee, Massachusetts where her husband retired). Two of her children were born locally, and several attended local schools colleges and universities.

As a compliment to her adopted home town, after Air Force life, West Springfield reminded her of the smaller Lexington Massachusetts town where she were raised before it became a larger Boston bedroom community. She attended the Eastern States Exposition (The BIG E) every year; and enjoyed Storrowtown.