TITLE:       John J. Cannon, Obituary,  August 3, 1944

SUBMITTERS:  Thompsonville Press
             Enfield, CT (issue August 10, 1944)

FORMATTED:   ABishop, May 2001

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John J. Cannon

The funeral of John J. Cannon, 36 Lincoln street, who died last Thursday at the
Springfield Hospital after a short illness, was conducted Monday morning from 
the Browne Funeral Home, followed by services in St. Patrick's Church at 9 o'clock.
Rev. William J. Gerrity celebrated the solemn high mass, assisted by the pastor,
Rev. William P. Kilcoyne, as deacon, and Rev. Lawrence Malley, St. Paul, Minn.,
as subdeacon.  Miss Esther E. Liberty was soloist.  Bearers were Deputy Sheriff L.
Donald Graham, Joseph Sullivan, Harold Sullivan, James Rowan, William Halden and 
Earl Ryder.  Father Gerrity conducted the committal services at the grave in
St. Patrick's Cemetery.
A native of this place, Mr. Cannon learned the trade of barber when a young man in 
the shop of the late Charles W. Graham and later conducted a barbershop in the old 
Hotel Gilmore Block in Springfield for several years.  In recent years he had been 
employed as an electrician by the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company.  Mr. Cannon leaves
a brother, James, and a sister, Miss Sarah Cannon, both at home, and several nieces 
and nephews.

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