Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 07:21:26 :
Independent Journal
Thursday, 11 February 1954
Page 7
Funeral tomorrow For Mrs. Reilly
Funeral services will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning in San Francisco for the 94-year-old mother of George R. Reilly, chairman of the State Board of Equalization.
Last rites for Mrs. Thomas Reilly will begin at Gantner-Felder-Kenny chapel at 1965 Market street, with Requiem High Mass at St. John’s Church in San Francisco. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mrs. Reilly died in her sleep yesterday at the Santa Venetia home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Barbara Lush. A native of Canada, she had come to the Bay Area about 50 years ago and lived for the past 15 years in Marin County. She had been active in the Catholic Daughters of America and the ladies auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
She is survived by the state official and his twin brother James W. of San Francisco, and two daughters, Mrs. Lillian Kern of San Rafael and Mrs. Helen Giger of Indio. Her husband, James J. Reilly, an ice company engineer, died 15 years ago.
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A death notice on the same page adds the following:
REILLY – In San Rafael, Calif., Feb. 10, 1954, Theresa, beloved wife of the late James Joseph Reilly, loving mother of Mrs. Arthur Giger, Mrs. Mervyn Kern, James W. and George R. Reilly and the late Theresa, Charles, William, Vincent and James Reilly. A member of Robert Emmett Division, LAAGH; Court St. Agnes, Catholic Daughters of America of Fairfax; and the Third Order of St. Francis of St. Anthony’s Church.
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