MObit: O’Brien, Eugene J. [MCattendee]

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Eugene J. O’Brien

O’BRIEN Eugene J., a World War II veteran and procurement executive in paper, banking, and technology died Nov. 3rd. He was 86 years old.O’Brien was born in New York, New York to Irish immigrants from Kinsale.He graduated from Power Memorial High School in the Bronx, New York and attended Manhattan College, graduated from Iona College, Columbia University and the executive management program at Harvard University.During college, he joined the US Naval Reserve and was in active duty in the Pacific Theater during World War II from 1943-1946. He was an active member of the Veteran’s Administration.O’Brien was an executive with American Can Company, United Trust Company, Diamond International and NYNEX. A former athlete and competitive swimmer, O’Brien volunteered at the Veterans Administration Hospitals and the Ocean County Health Department after his retirement.A well loved and respected family member, he is survived by his wife Barbara (Cagnolati) O’Brien and his three children Peg O’Brien Bernhardt and her husband Ted of Bedford, Massachusetts, Paul O’Brien, Ph.D. and Nancy Ricany, RN. of Ocean Gate, New Jersey and Donald O’Brien and his wife Diane of Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. He leaves six wonderful grandchildren and a sister Frances Quinlan of Waretown, New Jersey.Eugene O’Brien will be buried with full military honors. Funeral from Becker Funeral Home, 219 Kinderkamack Road, Westwood, NJ, on Monday at 9 AM. Funeral Liturgy at Church of St. Andrew, Westwood, NJ at 10 AM. Interment, Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, NY. The family will receive their friends on Sunday at Becker Funeral Home from 2-6 PM. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Veterans Administration, 251 Causeway Street #226, Boston, MA, 02114, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, 125 Nashua Street, Boston, MA, 02114.

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O’Brien, Eugene J. [MCattendee]

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[JR: WW2 screwed up a lot of lives. Folks left Manhattan College and may have not returned to finish up there. They may have not even come home at all. I feel we should give folks the benefit of the doubt. Without their country's call, they might have graduated Jaspers. I think that if someone mentions Manhattan College in the obit, then it meant something to them. And, I'll honor that mention. Besides, prayers offered on their behalf are pretty inexpensive to us the living. What else can we do for them? Honor that they once shared a common tradition. Maybe that time was what formed them? Makes them Jaspers in my book.]

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