OBIT: John A. O'CONNER, 1904, Conner, Somerset County, PA

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John A. O'Connor's Funeral

  Father Philip Bohan, pastor of the Moxham Catholic parish, Johnstown, 
unassisted at 10 o'clock Thursday morning, celebrated a high mass of 
requiem over the remains of the late John A. O'Connor, at Conner, 
Somerset County.  A part of the choir of St. John Gaulbert's church 
sang. The four brothers of the deceased, Attorney James B. O'Connor, 
Judge F. J. O'Connor, Don O'Connor and Prof. P. J. O'Connor were the 
pallbearers and interment which was private was made in the old family 
graveyard on the O'Connor farm, beside the remains of the deceased's 
father. Mrs. P. J. O'Connor and her two children arrived in Johnstown 
from Ebensburg to attend the funeral and were driven out to 
Forwardstown.
  It is related that shortly before his death, John A. O'Connor 
summoned to his bedside his children and made them each one promise to 
lead lives reflecting honor on themselves, their relatives and their 
communities. The five boys were especially abjured to desist from 
profanity, untruthfulness and the use of liquor.  Mr. O'Connor was 
conscious almost to the end.

Cambria Freeman, Ebensburg, Pa., Volume XXXVIII, Number 29, Friday, 
July 22, 1904