Thursday, February 4, 2010

Death of George O'Reilly at age 65 in 1995

Here is a 1995 page from the Verdun Messager showing a couple of Verdunites that some members will no doubt recognize namely, George O'Reilly announcing his death on January 27th at age 65 and a photo of David Fennario the author of "Joe Beef". Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Guy 

3 comments:

john allison said...

Thanks Guy. I remember his funeral....

Les F said...

We went to school with some of the O'Reilly family,at VCHS........... The fanily was certainly dedicated to the City of Verdun in terms of public service.
HF&RV

Les F said...

Here's a Montreal Gazette article about George O'Reilly senior, who had a long history of supporting Verdun,& as the article indicates he was instrumental in the hockey lives of Maurice Richard,Dollard StLaurent, & Butch Bouchard,.......
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FFcrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vJwFAAAAIBAJ&dq=george%20o-reilly&pg=7025%2C3130811
there are other Gazette stories of George Senior meeting the Queen (for something or other,..mind you 'that & a bus ticket ,will get you downtown).........hahahahah but I'm sure it was impressive at the time.............................................................HF&RV