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ROBERT MICHAEL REILLY
On Sunday, December 10, 2006, ROBERT MICHAEL REILLY died at his Washington, DC home with his loving wife, Mary Frances Withum by his side. Born January 25, 1955 to Paulette Robert Reilly of Springfield, MA and the late William L. Reilly. Devoted father to Robert M. Reilly, Jr. of Taunton, MA, Justin C. Reilly of Fall River, MA and Amanda Margaret Reilly of Washington, DC; brother of Sandra Gallant of Springfield, MA, Patrick Reilly of Whittenton, MA and the late William Reilly. Bob will also be missed by cousin, Edd Breaux and countless loving friends and relatives. Friends will be received at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 16 at Christ Church Washington Parish, 620 G Street, SE, Washington, DC, where the funeral liturgy will be offered at 1 p.m. Military Honors commital will follow at Congressional Cemetery. Flowers, directions and memories online:
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December 8, 2019
Miss you Bob
Carol & Doug Oswald
December 14, 2006
What can one possibly say about Bob; a friend, a character, a sweet loving man. His love for Mary & Amanda kept him with us despite his own personal pain. We will truely miss him.
Patty Harrington-Chambers
December 14, 2006
"What a wonderful and Crazy Guy" and a "Man of All Seasons" as he loved them all, as he did everyone he ever shared his soul and love of life with, and how he loved all things beautiful and natural, his most precious being his wife, Mary, and daugher, Amanda, both of whom he cherished with a heart and love so big and deep, he could never stop talking about that love every day of these last several months. Our phone conversations always included how much he loved them to the depth of his soul and how he just couldn't and wouldn't let go his life just so he could be there for a few more hours or days to be with them. He shared how he wanted to spend just one more Christmas with Mary and Amanda, just one more, and he tried so, so hard. His true life's work was building loving and cherishing homes as monuments to and of his love for his family - first, a wonderful and warming home in the Maryland woods and then a mountain-top Caribbean get-away place of peace in St. Croix. He toiled countless hours to make homes (his expreession of God's handiwork within his art). What beautiful palaces he created to express his love for his wife and daughter. He once said during the last few months he had hoped he could get well enough and the winter would be cold enough that he could build Amanda an ice castle to remember him by. He wanted to make her a palace where she could reign as the Ice Princess and always be in a fairy book land, where he would alwyays be her Prince. He asked me once not but a few weeks ago, "Patty, When I'm gone, "Please tell Mary that I always believed she was "Lady" and I was "the Tramp" and "I still remember and love all those bowls of spaghettti you left for me in St. Croix. It was then I truly knew she was my Lady and I was her Tramp. She and Amanda gave me back my childhood and the dreams I had once forgotten, but found".
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