Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Rest in Peace, sweet cousin Peggy. Peggy was my father Edward Sweeney's first cousin, my second. She assisted me with genealogy information on our Shea family members beginning in 2010. This allowed me to visit the home of my father when he was young, and being raised in the Bronx. Peggy's mother, Catherine "Kate" (Shea) Tighe, took a train from New York, a single woman at the time, to Pennsylvania, and picked up her sister's three little son's, and raised my them including my father Edward, who was two years old, and his two young brothers after the death of their parents caused by the flu pandemic of 1919-1920. Kate was a great woman and the only mother my father ever knew. The Shea family originated in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny Ireland, where my paternal grandmother, Mary Ellen (Shea) Sweeney was born. Mary Ellen was Kate's sister. God Bless you Peggy, and may you sing with the angels. Blessings to Jim and Kevin Kratchel. Rebecca (Sweeney) Lowe, Southern California.
Rebecca (Sweeney) Lowe
