Josephine “Pat” O’Neill of Warwick passed away peacefully with her loving family by her side on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019. She was 81 years old.
Born in New York City on April 26, 1938, she was the daughter of Michael J. and Josephine (McDonald) Smyth.
Prior to retirement, Pat worked as a travel agent for Prestige Travel in Suffern. She loved to travel, so this was the perfect position for her.
Her family's statement reads: “Josephine was a sweet, sweet person. She never had a bad word to say about anyone; she made a lasting impression on everyone she met. Mom could light up a room."
She was a very vivacious person and was lovingly referred to as “Party Pat." She loved to sew, play Mahjong, Scrabble and Canasta with the friends she loved at Liberty Green and the Warwick library. She enjoyed going to the casino.
Pat raised her children to have moral values. It was also important to her to pass on family traditions, especially about her Irish heritage. She was a member of the Ladies’ Irish Heritage Society and marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Ireland.
Josephine is survived by her five children: Lisa Tiger and her husband Scott of Warwick, Patricia Bauer and her husband Matthew of Warwick, Tracy Gray and her husband Kevin of Central Valley, John O’Neill and his wife Tracy of Montgomery and Tara Conmy and her husband Dan of Norwood, N.J.; 13 grandchildren: Keriann LeLoup, Kaitlyn Mannino (Andy), Scott Tiger, Ryan, Patrick, Shannon and Brendan Bauer, Kevin Gray (Katie), Rilee, Dylan, and Delanie O’Neill, Sean and Luke Conmy; great-granddaughter Mattigan Gray; brother Michael Smyth of Sykesville, Md.; and many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband John J. O’Neill and three sisters, Virginia Deering, Margaret McLaughlin and Brenda Daly.
Visitation was held Sept. 12 at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Ave., Warwick.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sept. 13 at at St. Stephen RC Church in Warwick.
In interment followed in the Orange County Veterans Cemetery in Goshen.
Arrangements were made by Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home. To send an online condolence, visit www.lsvpmemorialhome.com.