Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"DIED.
TORMEY - At the family home, Oleum, May 6, 1924, John P. Tormey, age 48 years, a native [of] Rodeo, Contra Costa county beloved husband of Winifred Tormey and son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey; loving brother of Leo F., Clement C., Ruth A., Linus J. and Verda E. Tormey and Mrs. T. J. O'Leary and the late Louis Tormey; nephew of Miss Kate Mathews, member Berkeley Council No. 1499 Knights of Columbus.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend funeral services Thursday, May 8, 1924, at 10 [?] a.m., from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo, where solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul. Interment St. Catherine's church, Martinez, Calif."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"JOHN P. TORMEY SUMMONED BY DEATH ON TUESDAY.
Just seventeen years ago today, one of the best known and most beloved of all the pioneers of not only this county, but of the entire bay region, one of the men who had done most to shape the destinies of this great commonwealth facing the western sea, Patrick Tormey passed away in a picturesque country mansion o'erlooking, on the on side an expanse of beautiful waters, on the other, beautiful hills and dells, and was followed from the place that by his indomitable will and energy he had made one of the historic landmarks of this beautiful western lands, by the largest concourse of mourning friends that had ever before, or has ever since, traversed the highways of Contra Costa county.
Seventeen years later, his elder son, John P[atrick] Tormey, beloved of all wherever and by whomever known, and particularly in Western Contra Costa, where he first saw the light of day, lived through childhood, the days of his splendid youth and the glorious days of ripening manhood, where he won his successes and made an enduring name for himself, will be followed from the same old country mansion, over the same old highway, to the same burial spot, by a host of sorrowing relatives and friends to be laid beside his father and other loved ones gone before, in the family burial plot in St Catherine's cemetery, Martinez.
John P. Tormey was born at Rodeo on May 4, 1876 and passed away in the home in which he was born on Tuesday morning, May 6, 1924. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1894 and shortly after became the head Assayer of the American Smelters Securities Company of Selby, which position he held up to the time of his last illness, which began shortly after Thanksgiving, 1923.
He was the eldest son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey and leaves to mourn his passing a widow, Winifred; brothers, Leo F., Clement C., Linus J. and the late Louis A.; sisters: Mrs. T. J. O'Leary, Ruth A. and Verda E.; an aunt, Mrs. Kate A. Matthews of Oakland; cousins: Mrs. Judge Louis H. Ward of San Francisco; Ed. Randall of Concord and Frank Randall of Richmond.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a worshipper at St. Patrick's church of Rodeo. The rosary will be said at 8:30 tonight at the family home at Rodoo.
Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Church at Rodeo at ten o'clock Thursday morning where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul by Father Phillips. Six members of the Knights of Columbus will act a honorary pallbearers, and six bank officials with whom he has been closely associated for many years will be the acting pall bearers. From the church the funeral cortege will wend its way to St. Catherine's Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest in the family plot."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 8, 1924 (Thursday)
"Tormey Funeral Held Wednesday.
Funeral services for the late John P[atrick] Tormey of Rodeo, brother of Leo F. Tormey of this city was held from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Interment was in St. Catherine's Cemetery, this city. The funeral services were conducted by Father Phillips of Rodeo, Funeral Director Henry J. Curry conducting the funeral."
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"DIED.
TORMEY - At the family home, Oleum, May 6, 1924, John P. Tormey, age 48 years, a native [of] Rodeo, Contra Costa county beloved husband of Winifred Tormey and son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey; loving brother of Leo F., Clement C., Ruth A., Linus J. and Verda E. Tormey and Mrs. T. J. O'Leary and the late Louis Tormey; nephew of Miss Kate Mathews, member Berkeley Council No. 1499 Knights of Columbus.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend funeral services Thursday, May 8, 1924, at 10 [?] a.m., from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo, where solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul. Interment St. Catherine's church, Martinez, Calif."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"JOHN P. TORMEY SUMMONED BY DEATH ON TUESDAY.
Just seventeen years ago today, one of the best known and most beloved of all the pioneers of not only this county, but of the entire bay region, one of the men who had done most to shape the destinies of this great commonwealth facing the western sea, Patrick Tormey passed away in a picturesque country mansion o'erlooking, on the on side an expanse of beautiful waters, on the other, beautiful hills and dells, and was followed from the place that by his indomitable will and energy he had made one of the historic landmarks of this beautiful western lands, by the largest concourse of mourning friends that had ever before, or has ever since, traversed the highways of Contra Costa county.
Seventeen years later, his elder son, John P[atrick] Tormey, beloved of all wherever and by whomever known, and particularly in Western Contra Costa, where he first saw the light of day, lived through childhood, the days of his splendid youth and the glorious days of ripening manhood, where he won his successes and made an enduring name for himself, will be followed from the same old country mansion, over the same old highway, to the same burial spot, by a host of sorrowing relatives and friends to be laid beside his father and other loved ones gone before, in the family burial plot in St Catherine's cemetery, Martinez.
John P. Tormey was born at Rodeo on May 4, 1876 and passed away in the home in which he was born on Tuesday morning, May 6, 1924. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1894 and shortly after became the head Assayer of the American Smelters Securities Company of Selby, which position he held up to the time of his last illness, which began shortly after Thanksgiving, 1923.
He was the eldest son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey and leaves to mourn his passing a widow, Winifred; brothers, Leo F., Clement C., Linus J. and the late Louis A.; sisters: Mrs. T. J. O'Leary, Ruth A. and Verda E.; an aunt, Mrs. Kate A. Matthews of Oakland; cousins: Mrs. Judge Louis H. Ward of San Francisco; Ed. Randall of Concord and Frank Randall of Richmond.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a worshipper at St. Patrick's church of Rodeo. The rosary will be said at 8:30 tonight at the family home at Rodoo.
Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Church at Rodeo at ten o'clock Thursday morning where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul by Father Phillips. Six members of the Knights of Columbus will act a honorary pallbearers, and six bank officials with whom he has been closely associated for many years will be the acting pall bearers. From the church the funeral cortege will wend its way to St. Catherine's Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest in the family plot."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 8, 1924 (Thursday)
"Tormey Funeral Held Wednesday.
Funeral services for the late John P[atrick] Tormey of Rodeo, brother of Leo F. Tormey of this city was held from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Interment was in St. Catherine's Cemetery, this city. The funeral services were conducted by Father Phillips of Rodeo, Funeral Director Henry J. Curry conducting the funeral."
Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"DIED.
TORMEY - At the family home, Oleum, May 6, 1924, John P. Tormey, age 48 years, a native [of] Rodeo, Contra Costa county beloved husband of Winifred Tormey and son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey; loving brother of Leo F., Clement C., Ruth A., Linus J. and Verda E. Tormey and Mrs. T. J. O'Leary and the late Louis Tormey; nephew of Miss Kate Mathews, member Berkeley Council No. 1499 Knights of Columbus.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend funeral services Thursday, May 8, 1924, at 10 [?] a.m., from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo, where solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul. Interment St. Catherine's church, Martinez, Calif."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"JOHN P. TORMEY SUMMONED BY DEATH ON TUESDAY.
Just seventeen years ago today, one of the best known and most beloved of all the pioneers of not only this county, but of the entire bay region, one of the men who had done most to shape the destinies of this great commonwealth facing the western sea, Patrick Tormey passed away in a picturesque country mansion o'erlooking, on the on side an expanse of beautiful waters, on the other, beautiful hills and dells, and was followed from the place that by his indomitable will and energy he had made one of the historic landmarks of this beautiful western lands, by the largest concourse of mourning friends that had ever before, or has ever since, traversed the highways of Contra Costa county.
Seventeen years later, his elder son, John P[atrick] Tormey, beloved of all wherever and by whomever known, and particularly in Western Contra Costa, where he first saw the light of day, lived through childhood, the days of his splendid youth and the glorious days of ripening manhood, where he won his successes and made an enduring name for himself, will be followed from the same old country mansion, over the same old highway, to the same burial spot, by a host of sorrowing relatives and friends to be laid beside his father and other loved ones gone before, in the family burial plot in St Catherine's cemetery, Martinez.
John P. Tormey was born at Rodeo on May 4, 1876 and passed away in the home in which he was born on Tuesday morning, May 6, 1924. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1894 and shortly after became the head Assayer of the American Smelters Securities Company of Selby, which position he held up to the time of his last illness, which began shortly after Thanksgiving, 1923.
He was the eldest son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey and leaves to mourn his passing a widow, Winifred; brothers, Leo F., Clement C., Linus J. and the late Louis A.; sisters: Mrs. T. J. O'Leary, Ruth A. and Verda E.; an aunt, Mrs. Kate A. Matthews of Oakland; cousins: Mrs. Judge Louis H. Ward of San Francisco; Ed. Randall of Concord and Frank Randall of Richmond.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a worshipper at St. Patrick's church of Rodeo. The rosary will be said at 8:30 tonight at the family home at Rodoo.
Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Church at Rodeo at ten o'clock Thursday morning where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul by Father Phillips. Six members of the Knights of Columbus will act a honorary pallbearers, and six bank officials with whom he has been closely associated for many years will be the acting pall bearers. From the church the funeral cortege will wend its way to St. Catherine's Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest in the family plot."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 8, 1924 (Thursday)
"Tormey Funeral Held Wednesday.
Funeral services for the late John P[atrick] Tormey of Rodeo, brother of Leo F. Tormey of this city was held from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Interment was in St. Catherine's Cemetery, this city. The funeral services were conducted by Father Phillips of Rodeo, Funeral Director Henry J. Curry conducting the funeral."
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"DIED.
TORMEY - At the family home, Oleum, May 6, 1924, John P. Tormey, age 48 years, a native [of] Rodeo, Contra Costa county beloved husband of Winifred Tormey and son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey; loving brother of Leo F., Clement C., Ruth A., Linus J. and Verda E. Tormey and Mrs. T. J. O'Leary and the late Louis Tormey; nephew of Miss Kate Mathews, member Berkeley Council No. 1499 Knights of Columbus.
Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend funeral services Thursday, May 8, 1924, at 10 [?] a.m., from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo, where solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul. Interment St. Catherine's church, Martinez, Calif."
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Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 7, 1924 (Wednesday)
"JOHN P. TORMEY SUMMONED BY DEATH ON TUESDAY.
Just seventeen years ago today, one of the best known and most beloved of all the pioneers of not only this county, but of the entire bay region, one of the men who had done most to shape the destinies of this great commonwealth facing the western sea, Patrick Tormey passed away in a picturesque country mansion o'erlooking, on the on side an expanse of beautiful waters, on the other, beautiful hills and dells, and was followed from the place that by his indomitable will and energy he had made one of the historic landmarks of this beautiful western lands, by the largest concourse of mourning friends that had ever before, or has ever since, traversed the highways of Contra Costa county.
Seventeen years later, his elder son, John P[atrick] Tormey, beloved of all wherever and by whomever known, and particularly in Western Contra Costa, where he first saw the light of day, lived through childhood, the days of his splendid youth and the glorious days of ripening manhood, where he won his successes and made an enduring name for himself, will be followed from the same old country mansion, over the same old highway, to the same burial spot, by a host of sorrowing relatives and friends to be laid beside his father and other loved ones gone before, in the family burial plot in St Catherine's cemetery, Martinez.
John P. Tormey was born at Rodeo on May 4, 1876 and passed away in the home in which he was born on Tuesday morning, May 6, 1924. He graduated from St. Mary's College in Oakland in 1894 and shortly after became the head Assayer of the American Smelters Securities Company of Selby, which position he held up to the time of his last illness, which began shortly after Thanksgiving, 1923.
He was the eldest son of the late Patrick and Mary Tormey and leaves to mourn his passing a widow, Winifred; brothers, Leo F., Clement C., Linus J. and the late Louis A.; sisters: Mrs. T. J. O'Leary, Ruth A. and Verda E.; an aunt, Mrs. Kate A. Matthews of Oakland; cousins: Mrs. Judge Louis H. Ward of San Francisco; Ed. Randall of Concord and Frank Randall of Richmond.
He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a worshipper at St. Patrick's church of Rodeo. The rosary will be said at 8:30 tonight at the family home at Rodoo.
Funeral services will be held at St. Patrick's Church at Rodeo at ten o'clock Thursday morning where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of his soul by Father Phillips. Six members of the Knights of Columbus will act a honorary pallbearers, and six bank officials with whom he has been closely associated for many years will be the acting pall bearers. From the church the funeral cortege will wend its way to St. Catherine's Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest in the family plot."
AND
Daily Gazette (Martinez, California)
May 8, 1924 (Thursday)
"Tormey Funeral Held Wednesday.
Funeral services for the late John P[atrick] Tormey of Rodeo, brother of Leo F. Tormey of this city was held from St. Patrick's church at Rodeo at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Interment was in St. Catherine's Cemetery, this city. The funeral services were conducted by Father Phillips of Rodeo, Funeral Director Henry J. Curry conducting the funeral."
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