Thomas E. Tyrell Had long Career on Canal, Great Lakes Thomas E. Tyrell, 77, retired boat captain, 209 E. Garden St., died en route to Rome Hospital Saturday afternoon after suffering a heart attack at 4:15. Capt. Tyrell, who was born Jan 14, 1885, to John and Nora Kennedy Tyrell on his father’s boat while tied up at Pier 6 on New York’s East River, had spent almost of his entire life in Marine work. He retired in 1957 after serving as captain for Standard Oil for 23 years. A temporary retirement in 1945 led to a new job, piloting a grain boar from Oswego to Albany and from Duluth across Lake Superior. He was a navigator on the Hudson River Barge Canal and Great Lakes
On Nov. 25, 1915, he married Abigail (Abbe) Sullivan in St. Mary’s Church Irish ridge. They had lived in Rome since 1919. Lived on Boat – t. and Mrs. Tyrell spent their first year of marriage on a boat with himself as mate and his wife as cook. He was a member of St. Peter’s Church and its Holy Name society. Surviving are his wife; a son, Francis T. Tyrell, Grand Rapids, Mich., a sister, Mrs. Ellen A. Schuler, Rome; a brother, John H. Tyrell, Indianapolis, Ind., and four grandchildren, Kevin, Kimberly, Kent and Kristen Tyrell.
Funeral services will be held at the Griffin and Aldridge Funeral Home Tuesday at 8:30 and 9 in St. Peter’s Church where a solemn requiem high Mass will be celebrated. Interment will be in Irish Ridge Cemetery.
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Rome Sentinel Tuesday Aug 7, 1962
Funeral services for Thomas E. Tyrrell, 209 E. Garden St., who died Saturday, were held today at 8:30 a.m. at the Griffin and Aldridge funeral Home and at 9 in St. Peter’s Church where the Rev. Msgr. Edward P. Buttimer pastor, celebrated a solemn requiem high mass. The Rev. John O’Brien was deacon and the Rev. Derimod Flinn, sub-deacon.
Eternal rest grant unto him, oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.