Cornelia Dinneen McCarthy

Cornelia Dinneen McCarthy

Cornelia (Connie) Dinneen McCarthy born in Medford, Massachusetts, September 7, 1917, entered into eternal rest Friday, December 31, 2010.

She was the daughter of the late Cornelius M. Dinneen and Mary Patenaude Dinneen of Medford, Massachusetts.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband of 52 years, John George McCarthy.

She was also preceded in death by three sons, John Michael, Cornelius (Neil) Peter, and Haber Joseph McCarthy; a granddaughter, Mary Alanna Pierce; and three sisters, all members of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Sister Lucilla (Margaret) Dinneen, Sister Cornelius (Doris) Dinneen and Sister Andre (Esther) Dinneen.

Connie graduated from Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts, with a major in mathematics. Her first job after graduation was as a high school math teacher. After marrying John, she took pride in creating a home for her seven children as well as caring for her father and aunt in their later years.

She served the various communities in which she lived from Massachusetts to New York to Virginia and North Carolina. She enjoyed working in support of her children's many activities, loved to play bridge, and was a volunteer with the League of Women Voters.

In recent years, she was a member of Saint Bede's Catholic Church where she served as a Eucharistic minister to the sick and was a volunteer for Hospice Care.

Connie leaves behind to cherish her memory three daughters, Doris Pierce of Williamsburg, Ann Martin and her husband, Charles, of Chesterfield, and Alanna Burns of Williamsburg; one son, Brendan McCarthy of Lake Worth, Florida; one daughter-in-law, Michelle Comiskey McCarthy of New Orleans, Louisiana; grandchildren, Elizabeth Martin Fisher, Andrew Charles Martin and his wife, Susan, Rachel Pierce Barrett and her husband, Marc, Michael McCarthy Pierce and his wife, Carrie Lynn, Zackery Scott Burns, Neil Liam McCarthy and Owen Seamus McCarthy; great-grandchildren, Grayson and Sydney Fisher, Graydon and Alexander Martin, Elijah and Mary Alanna Barrett and Stone, Oakley and Dalton Pierce.

Special thanks to the entire staff of Consulate Health Care of Williamsburg for their dedicated and compassionate care.

Memorial donations may be made to Hospice Support Care of Williamsburg, 4445 Powhatan Parkway, Williamsburg, VA 23188.

A graveside service will be held 10 a.m. Monday, January 3, 2011, at Williamsburg Memorial Park.

Arrangements are entrusted to Bucktrout Funeral Home.


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.