Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....O'Connor, Thomas Joseph April 2, 1944
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Virginian-Pilot  April 3, 1944
RITES TUESDAY MORNING FOR OCEAN VIEW CIVIC LEADER
Thomas Joseph O’Connor, 45, manager of the Merrimack Park housing project, 
former deputy United States marshal and a leader in Ocean View civic affairs, 
died at 1 p.m. yesterday at a local hospital of pneumonia which set in when he 
went to the hospital a week ago for an operation.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a. m. at Holy Trinity Catholic 
Church, Ocean View, of which Father Robert B. Kealey is pastor, and interment 
will take place in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Rosary services will be conducted at the 
residence, 1238 East Ocean View avenue, tonight at 8 o’clock.
The son of the late Thomas Joseph and Mary (Rudolph) O’Connor, he was born in 
Norfolk July 27, 1898. After attendance at St. Mary’s Male Academy and 
graduation from Maury High School, he attended Catholic University in 
Washington.
Publicized in Britain
Before his connection with Merrimack Park, owned and operated by the Housing 
Authority of the City of Norfolk, Mr. O’Connor was connected with the Southern 
Bank of Norfolk at Ocean View and was in the real estate business. Manager of 
the housing project since its opening in 1940, he also assisted the housing 
authority in a supervisory capacity when other projects were opened. Some of his 
innovations at Merrimack Park were incorporated in other projects over the 
country and one of them was publicized in a British housing magazine.
He was a past president of the Ocean View Lions Club and was a member of the 
Holy Name Society of Holy Trinity Church, the Ocean View Golf Club, the Princess 
Anne Country Club and the Cavalier Gun Club.
He had many outdoor diversions, including golf and hunting, but in skeet 
shooting he excelled. He participated in many state and national meets, and in 
1935 was State singles champion. He participated also in bowling and was in 
several Little Theatre plays.
He is survived by a sister. Miss Mary O’Connor, of Norfolk.
 


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