Obit of Reidy, Eileen Patricia "Pat" (O'Flaherty) - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri     21 Aug 2005
Return to Washington County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html
==========================================================================
                             USGENWEB NOTICE
                     Copyright.  All rights reserved.
             http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
==========================================================================
Surnames: REIDY, O'FLAHERTY, SKEEHAN, MCMILLAN, ROBERTS

Eileen P. Reidy

from 4-28-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Mrs. Eileen Patricia "Pat" (O'Flaherty) Reidy, 92, a Bartlesville resident 
since 1977, died at the family residence on Friday afternoon in 
Bartlesville.

A rosary will be said at 7:00 p.m. on Monday in the Memory Chapel of The 
Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. The Memorial Mass will be held at 10:00 
a.m. on Tuesday morning in St. James Catholic Church. Father William 
"Bill" Skeehan will be the officiant. Private family dedication of the 
grave, committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Calvary 
Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla. by The Arnold Funeral Service.

Memorials in Mrs. Reidy's name have been established to the Mary Martha 
Outreach at 417 SW 8th, Bartlesville, Okla. 74003 and Catholic Charities.

A native of Pennsylvania, Eileen Patricia O'Flaherty was born in Franklin 
on October 12, 1910. She was the daughter of the late Frank and Rachel 
(McMillan) O'Flaherty. "Pat" was reared and received her education in the 
Oil City, Pennsylvania community and was graduated in 1928 from the Oil 
City High School. She attended the Seton Hill College from 1928 to 1932 
and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in language and education. She was 
employed by the Chic Shop in Oil City until her marriage to Martin J. 
Reidy, also of Oil City, at Notre Dame University on September 17, 1935. 
She and Martin moved to Tulsa following their marriage where Martin was an 
employee of the Sinclair Refining Company. Eileen was a homemaker until 
the mid 1960's when she taught elementary school for a 15 year period 
which included St. Pius in Tulsa and schools in Birmingham, Michigan. 
Martin preceded her in death in 1969. She moved to Bartlesville in 1977 
where her oldest daughter, Mary, had a medical lab. Pat was a member of 
the St. James Catholic Church in Bartlesville.

Surviving are eight children, Dr. James Reidy and Dorothy, Oxford, 
Mississippi, Martin and Helen Reidy, Joseph Reidy, and Michael Reidy all 
of Tulsa, Okla., Frank and Louise Reidy, Patrick Reidy, all of 
Bartlesville, Okla.; Elizabeth "Liz" and Warren Roberts, Muskogee, Okla. 
and Patricia Reidy, Laurel, Maryland; 16 grandchildren; and six great 
grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her father; mother; husband; 
two daughters, Mary Ann Reidy and Martha Ann Reidy; an infant sister, Ruth 
O'Flaherty; and a brother, Donald O'Flaherty.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Washington County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html