(08/08/12) O’Connell, George G., 80, passed away at Kent Hospital on Wednesday, August 08, 2012. He was the devoted husband to Jean (Anderson) O’Connell. They would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this September.
Besides his wife he is survived by his children: Jean Pugliese, Rita Calabrese, Patricia Mandile, George O’Connell, Mary Ellen Leonhardt, Margaret Conklin and Christine Perenti and sixteen grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four brothers: Joseph, Charles, Raymond and Thomas O’Connell. He was the father of the late John P. O\'Connell.
Mr. O’Connell was an Army Veteran of the Korean War. He was employed with Defense Mapping Agency as a cartographer for 25 years and was a member of the East Greenwich Art Club.
Funeral from Carpenter-Jenks Funeral Home, 659 East Greenwich Avenue, West Warwick on Saturday, August 11 at 9 AM followed with A Mass of Christian Burial at SS. Rose & Clement Parish, 111 Long Street, Warwick with interment in Pawtuxet Memorial Park Cemetery in Warwick. Calling hours will be Friday from 5-7 PM.
Should friends desire, donations may be made in his memory to the Disabled American Veterans, P.O. Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH. Full obituary and condolences at carpenterjenks.com.
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