Obituaries:  Bernard F. Connolly, Sabine Parish       C-540
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 3, 1978
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Bernard F. Connolly

  Bernard Francis Connolly, 89, former president of Atlas Refining
Co., died at 6:15 a.m., Thursday, July 27, in Schumpert Medical
Center in Shreveport, following a lengthy illness. He was a
resident of the Mid City Hotel.

  Mr. Connolly was a native of New York city, where he was born on
September, 29, 1888. He had resided in Shreveport since 1935.

  He was a member of St. John Berchman's Co-Cathedral in
Shreveport. St. John's Holy Name Society, and a lifetime member
of the Knights of Columbus, Corrigan Council No. 705 of New York
City.

  Being a veteran of World War I, Mr. Connally was a member of the
Lowe McFarland American Legion Post No. 14, and of the Disabled
American Veterans of Shreveport. He was also a member of Alpha
Chapter of International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi at New York
University; a graduate of New York University, and of Fordham Law
School, and was admitted to the bar in New York City.

  Having assisted in working out the plan of re-organization of
Atlas Refining Co., he served as president of that company during
the 1940's Survivors include three nieces, Miss Catherine
Connolly of Flossmoor, Illinois, Mrs. Andrew F. Egan of Garden
City, New York, and Mrs. Joseph P. Doherty of Great Neck, New
York; and four nephews, Dr. Robert B. Connolly of Toms River, New
Jersey, Dr. Donald Connolly of Linwood, New Jersey, Dr. John
Connolly of West Caldwell, New York, and Phillip Connolly of New
York City.

  Funeral Mass was celebrated on Friday, July 28, at 10 a.m., at
St. John's Catholic Church in Many. Father Gustave Bergeron,
pastor of the church, Msgr. John C. Vandegaer, pastor of St.
Ann's Catholic Church in Stonewall, and Rev. J. E. Browning,
pastor of St. John Berchman's Co-Cathedral in Shreveport,
officiated. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Leonard Abington, Floyd Lopez, Richard McComic,
Weldon Anderson, Jim Bob Gandy, and J. E. Carmichael.