JOHN MICHAEL KELLEHER

1931 - 2020

KELLEHER
JOHN MICHAEL

Died peacefully on April 19, 2020, at Maplewood Health Care. He was born in Baltimore, MD in 1931 and grew up in Home-land. He was the son of John Peter and Dolores Kelleher of Scranton, PA and brother to Jayne, Margaret and Dolores, all of whom predeceased him.
He graduated from Loyola High School and College in Baltimore and Georgetown Law School in 1959, after having served for three and a half years in the US Navy as a Lieutenant JG on the destroyer USS Lowry. He practiced law with Pan American Airways in New York and then with C&P Telephone Company in Wash-ington, Baltimore and Philadel-phia, where he put together a legal department for Bell Atlantic, the new regional telephone company that emerged after the break-up of AT&T. His last several years were spent battling Alzheimer's. May he now rest in peace.
He is survived by his beloved family: Caroline (nee Swetnam) his wife of sixty one years; children Catherine, Anne (Nick Hoogstraten), Daniel, Theresa (Samuel Crowl) and Thomas (Meighan); 10 grandchildren, Sierra, Lyndsey, Kevin, Christopher, MacKenna, Peter, Aidan, Audrey, Kaitlin and Emerson; and many nieces and nephews.
Interment will be private at New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. A Memorial Mass will be held at a later date at St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Bethesda, MD. Arrange-ments have been entrusted to

ROBERT A. PUMPHREY FUNERAL HOME
Bethesda-Chevy Chase, MD