Children
John
Michael Dillon
BIRTH:
1 Aug 1915, Naugatuck, CT
BIOGRAPHY:
At the time of the 1920 Census, John Michael was 4 years and 4 months old, and living with his Father, John Joseph Dillon (29), his Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon (25), his sister, Eleanor, 2 years and 4 months old, and his sister, Julia, 3 months, at 98 Melbourne Court, Naugatuck, CT
(1-WD - Series: T625; Roll: 190; Page: 147; District:
298). His Father, John, was a rubber cutter at the Rubber Factory.
The family moved in with John's Grandparents, Michael and Ellen Hickey, at 421 North Spring Street, from 1922 to 1924. John remembered having gone with his grandfather to help build the house, which had started out as a "bungalow". After the Dillons moved in, Michael built two more rooms, one above the other, and turned a small bedroom into a bathroom.
His Father, John, purchased a second farm in 1924, five acres slopping down (East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area. At the time of the 1930 Census, John was 14, and living with his Father, John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers, William (8), and Edward (1 year and 9 months), and sisters, Eleanor (12), Julia (10), and Alcea (5), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT
(3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). His Father, John, was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
Before College and enlisting in the Army Air Corps,
John was educated in Naugatuck Schools: Hop Brook and Naugatuck High School (Class of '33). He attended the University of Maine before enlisting as a Flying Cadet in the U. S. Army.
After basic training, John was assigned to Turner Field, in Albany, Georgia, for his advanced, single engine, flight
training. There, he met Dorothea (Dot) Sorensen (b 26 Jan 1921, in Washingtonville NY), who was working on the base. After graduating, John was kept on as flight instructor, until the end of WWII.
John married Dot on 31 Dec 1941, at the Turner Field Chapel. They had two sons: Michael Jensen (b 1943) and David John (b 1944).
John was in the Air Force for more than thirty years of active military duty and numerous national and global assignments: WW2 Pilot Training, Berlin Airlift, European Army of Occupation, combat flying in Korea as a squadron commander, and tour duties at the Pentagon. Over the course of his career, the family lived in Georgia, Germany, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, Hawaii, Virginia, and Florida.
John Dillon -
1951
Their son, Michael J. married Sandra Lynn Robb, on 18 Feb 1966, in the Chapel of McCoy Air Force Base, Orlando, FL. They had two children: John Michael Dillon II (b 1970), and Sherri Lynn Dillon (b 1972).
Dot and John
Dillon - 1968
John retired from the USAF in 1969 as a full Colonel. After his
retirement, they settled in the Clearwater area of Florida, where Dot died on
17 Nov 1978.
Their son, David J., married Sandra Elizabeth Snyder, on 24 Nov 1979, in Florida. They had two children: Jensen Elizabeth (b 1980) and Jeffrey David (b 1982).
John
and Honey
John met Lillian A. Walker (Honey) in 1979, and they got married on 12 Sept 1987, in the Congregational Church of Charlotte, Vermont. They lived in Clearwater, Florida, and built a summer home in Monkton, VT.
John was a member of the Order of
Daedalians, the Mid-Florida Gulf Coast Chapter Retired Officers Association, the National Air Force Association, The 13th Bomb Squadron Association (Korea), the National Association of Uniform Service, Sigma Chi Fraternity, and Senior Alumni of the University of Maine.
DEATH: John died on 2 Sep 1998, at Stratford Court, Palm Harbor,
Florida. He was 83 years old.
BURIAL: Col. Dillon was buried on Friday, Sept. 4th, from the Moss-Feaster Funeral Home, Dunedin Chapel, with full military honors, and the Rev. Thomas Conmy, of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Dunedin, officiating.
Eleanor
Margaret Dillon
BIRTH:
13 Oct 1917, 172 Curtiss Street (home of maternal grandparents - Michael and Ellen Hickey), Naugatuck, CT
BIOGRAPHY:
At the time of the 1920 Census, Eleanor was 2 years and 4 months old and living with her Father, John Joseph Dillon (29), her Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon (25), her brother John Michael (4 years and 4 months), and her sister, Julia (3 months), at 98 Melbourne Court, Naugatuck, CT
(1-WD - Series: T625; Roll: 190; Page: 147; District:
298). Her Father, John,
was a rubber cutter at the Rubber Factory.
According to her brother, John M. Dillon, in his autobiography, "Johnny (Bound and Determined)", the highlights of her life as a baby were, almost choking to death on a piece of ham fat she grabbed from her high chair; and the fact that she had never spoken a word by the time she reached the age of two and then suddenly began to talk in full sentences. Her first sentences, upon being asked, "Did you see Aunt Nell?" were, in answer, "No, Aunt Nell was not there. She had to go downtown to do some shopping." When her Mother would tell that story, she would add, "and, she's never shut up since."
The family moved in with Eleanor's Grandparents, Michael and Ellen Hickey, at 421 North Spring Street, from 1922 to 1924. Her brother, John, remembered having gone with his grandfather to help build the house, which had started out as a "bungalow". After the Dillons moved in, Michael built two more rooms, one above the other, and turned a small bedroom into a bathroom.
Eleanor's Father, John, purchased a second farm in 1924, five acres slopping down (East)
to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area. At the time of the 1930 Census, Eleanor
was 12 years old, and living with her Father,
John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers, John (14), William (8), and Edward (1 year and 9 months), and sisters,
Julia (10), and Alcea (5), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT (3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). Her Father, John,
was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
Eleanor suffered from rheumatic fever during her senior year in high school and was bedridden until a visiting salesman recommended lots of lemon juice. The doctor had predicted that she would be incapacitated by the disease, but she
recovered (because of a tip to her parents, from a door to door salesman,
about drinking lots of lemonade -- vitamin C), graduated third in her class (1935) and got a scholarship to New Britain State Teacher's College.
Eleanor
- 1935
The doctor refused to allow her to go because he thought her heart was too weak. She was devastated, having already planned and corresponded with her assigned
roommate. Instead, she went to work as a secretary, in the Central Office of the Naugatuck Chemical Company, from 1935 to 1940.
After a few years of teaching, Eleanor developed congestive heart failure.
Not long after that, she developed giant cell arteritis and endured two years
of treatment with prednisone.
She tried to live long enough to see the big ships come into New York Harbor
(Bicentennial Celebration - July 4, 1976), but died a few days before that.
She had lived long enough to know her first grandchild, Matthew Thomas
Grenfell (b 1971), son of daughter, Linda, and her husband (m 22 Jun
1968, in Woodbury, CT), Gary Grenfell (b 1945).
She met
her second grandchild, Jessie Lee Grenfell (b 1976), once before she died.
Jessie
Lee Grenfell
Picture
taken for Grandma,
by
Grandpa Petitjean
Gary,
Matt, Jessie and Linda Grenfell - 1976
She
also got to know Joseph Bartok (b 1939), the man that daughter, Gwen, would
marry (15 Apr 1978, in Bethlehem, CT).
Gwen and Joe would have two children: Paul Thomas Bartok (b 1980),
and Laura Ellen Bartok (b 1984), after her demise.
Gwen,
Laura, Joe and Paul Bartok - 1984
Eleanor was very artistic and creative.
She was good at
crafts, a talented
artist,
and a gifted writer, known especially for her wonderful letters. After
her death, friends and relatives sent her family copies of letters she had
written, that had been meaningful enough for them to save.
DEATH:
25 Jun 1976, Barnard's Hospital, Paterson, NJ
BURIAL: St. James Cemetery, in a family plot with Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon (d 14 Aug 1951), Father, John Joseph Dillon (d
28 Aug 1968), and sister, Julia Dillon Crighton (d 17 May 1964). After her death,
her husband, William G. Petitjean (d 25 Jul 2010); brother-in-law, David B. Crighton (d
21 Jun 1995); sister, Alice Dillon Fager (d 21 Jul 2011); brother-in-law,
Harry E. Fager (d 2 Jun 2010); sister, Jeanne M. Furtado (d 15 Jan 1999); and
brother-in-law, Edward Furtado (d 26 Apr 2003) were also buried there. The
grave stone also memorializes her brother, Edward Patrick Dillon, who
disappeared when his jet plane crashed off of Cape Cod, MA in 1954.
Julia
Alice Dillon
BIRTH: 19 Oct 1919, in Naugatuck, CT.
BIOGRAPHY:
At the time of the 1920 Census, Julia was 3 months old and living with her Father, John Joseph Dillon (29), her Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon (25), her brother John Michael(4 years and 4 months), and her sister, Eleanor (2 years and 4 months old), at 98 Melbourne Court, Naugatuck, CT
(1-WD - Series: T625; Roll: 190; Page: 147; District:
298). Her Father, John,
was a rubber cutter at the Rubber Factory.
The family moved in with Julie's Grandparents, Michael and Ellen Hickey, at 421 North Spring Street, from 1922 to 1924. Her brother, John, remembered having gone with his grandfather to help build the house, which had started out as a "bungalow". After the Dillons moved in, Michael built two more rooms, one above the other, and turned a small bedroom into a bathroom.
Julie's Father, John, purchased a second farm in 1924, five acres slopping down
(East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area.
At the time of the 1930 Census, Julia was 10 years old, and living with her Father, John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers, John (14), William (8), and Edward (1 year and 9 months), and sisters, Eleanor (12), and Alcea (5), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT
(3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). Her Father, John,
was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
Julie
Dillon - 1940
Maid
of Honor at sister Eleanor's Wedding
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
Julie and Dave
Crighton
Julie married
David Crighton
(b 6 Aug 1916, in CT) who received his flight training at Parks Air College, East Saint Louis,
Illinois and served in WWII, flying combat missions in B29's over Japan.
He served in the 873rd Bombardment Squadron, Crew 231-14, as Airplane Commander.
Alcea, Dave, and
Julie - Wedding
They had four children: Lawrence William and Cynthia Jean (twins - b
1944), Cheryl Ann (b 1947) and
Robert Bruce (b 1954).
They lived in Cheshire, CT for most of their married life.
Cindy,
Larry and Julie
Crighton and
Petitjean Children - 1950
Cindy,
Sherry, and Larry - Christmas 1953
Their daughter, Cynthia Jean (Tin), married Douglas Mott (b 1945) on 02 Mar 1965, in Cheshire, CT, a marriage that ended in divorce. She then
married David Eckrote, in North Carolina, and had a son, David Eckrote Jr.
(Scooter).
David and Cindy Eckrote
David Eckrote
Jr.
Their son,
Lawrence, married Kathleen T. Gillette (b 1956) on 11 November,
1977, in Cheshire, CT, a
marriage that ended in divorce.
Larry
Crighton
Their daughter, Cheryl (Sherry), married Richard George Ewing (b 1951), on 13
Mar 1973, at the Church of the Epiphany, in Cheshire, CT. They had two children, Richard
Scott (b 1976), and Christopher (1980), before their divorce.
Sherry
Ewing
Richard
EwingChristopher
Ewing
Their son, Robert,
married Nancy E. Mahoney (b 1955) on 22 October, 1977, in Cheshire, CT.
They had three sons: Kevin, Bryan and Steven.
Robert
and Nancy Crighton
Cynthia Jean Eckrote, died of cancer on 23 Nov 1982, at the age of 38, in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
DEATH:
Julie died on 17 May 1964, in Cheshire, CT, after suffering for many years with Addison's
disease and the side effects of cortisone therapy.
BURIAL: St. James Cemetery, in a family plot with Mother, Alice Hickey
Dillon (d 14 Aug 1951), and Father, John Joseph Dillon (d 28 Aug 1968).
After her death, her husband,
David B. Crighton (d 21 Jun 1995); her sister, Eleanor Dillon Petitjean (d
25 Jun 1976);
brother-in-law, William G. Petitjean (d 25 Jul 2010); sister, Alice Dillon
Fager (d 21 Jul 2011); brother-in-law, Harry E. Fager (d 2 Jun 2010); sister, Jeanne M. Furtado (d 15 Jan 1999); and
brother-in-law, Edward Furtado (d 26 Apr 2003) were also buried there. The
grave stone also memorializes her brother, Edward Patrick Dillon, who
disappeared when his jet plane crashed off of Cape Cod, MA in 1954.
William Erskine
Dillon
BIRTH: 5 Oct 1921, in Naugatuck, CT
NICKNAME: Bill (Bumper, to
grandchildren)
BIOGRAPHY:
The family moved in with Bill's Grandparents, Michael and Ellen Hickey, at 421 North Spring Street, from 1922 to 1924. His brother, John, remembered having gone with his grandfather to help build the house, which had started out as a "bungalow". After the Dillons moved in, Michael built two more rooms, one above the other, and turned a small bedroom into a bathroom.
Bill's Father, John, purchased a second farm in 1924, five acres slopping down
(East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area.
At the time of the 1930 Census, William was 8 years old, and living with his Father,
John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers: John (14), and Edward (1 year and 9 months), and sisters, Eleanor (12), Julia (10), and Alcea (5), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT
(3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). His Father, John,
was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
Bill entered the Army Air Corps and served in combat over Europe, flying out of England, as a tail gunner, in a B24 heavy
bomber, during WWII.
Bill married Isabel
Florence Salisbury (b 3 May 1920, in Maine).
Isabel
F. Salisbury
They had a son William
Erskine Jr. (b 1943)
Billy
Jr. - 1943
After the war, Bill worked for the Bristol Company, in Platts Mills, CT.
He and his family moved to Beacon Falls, CT in 1946, and later to Field Street, in Naugatuck, CT.
Bill
and Isabel
Their son, William, married Karen Kosko (b 1946) on 18 Apr 1964, in Naugatuck,
CT.
Bill
and Karen
Bill and Karen had two children: Edward William Salisbury (b 1967)
and Barbara Jean (b
1970).
Edward and Barbara Jean
Edward married Heather Marie Chute, on 14 Oct 1995.
Edward and Heather
They have a daughter, Flannery, born
in 1996.
In 2004, Heather gave birth to identical twin daughters: Molly
Salisbury, and Mary Isabel, who was stillborn.
Flannery
and Molly
In the 1960's, Bill and Isabelle moved to Woodbury,
CT, eventually buying a home at 20 Ridgewood
Road.
Bill and Isabel
Dillon - 1968
Isabel died on 10 Sep 1996, and Bill remained in Woodbury, CT, until his
death, at the age of 75.
DEATH:
2
Mar 1997, in Woodbury, CT.
BURIAL:
William is buried with his wife, Isabel, in Salisbury Cove, Maine, at the Leland
Cemetery.
Alice Hickey
Dillon
BIRTH: 1924, in Naugatuck, CT
NICKNAME: Alcea
BIOGRAPHY:
The family was living with her Mother's parents, Michael and Ellen Hickey, at 421 North Spring Street, when Alice was born in 1924. Her brother, John, remembered having gone with his grandfather to help build the house, which had started out as a "bungalow". After the Dillons moved in, Michael built two more rooms, one above the other, and turned a small bedroom into a bathroom.
Her Father, John, purchased a second farm in 1924, five acres slopping down
(East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area.
At the time of the 1930 Census, Alcea was 5 years old, and living with her Father, John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers, John (14), William (8), and Edward (1 year and 9 months), and sisters, Eleanor (12), and Julia (10), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT
(3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). Her Father, John,
was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
Alcea, Beau and
Bill Dillon
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
Alcea
- 1945
Alcea graduated from Naugatuck High
School and then studied to be a registered nurse, finishing her training at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, CT.
In 1946, she was 22 years old, a nurse at St. Mary's Hospital, and living at 421 Spring Street, Union City, Naugatuck, CT (Waterbury, Naugatuck, and Watertown, Connecticut City Directory, 1946), with her Father, John
J. (56), an
inspector in Waterbury; her Mother, Alice M. (52); her brother, Edward (18); and her sister, Jeanne (14).
Following graduation from Saint Mary’s, she studied surgical nursing. She
worked in the operating room at Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in NYC, was a
charge nurse in the emergency room (nights) at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Nurse
Alcea, St. Mary's Hospital,
with
sister, Eleanor, and niece, Linda.
Alcea married Harry E. Fager
(b
1922, in CT) and had three children: Harry E. Jr. (b 1953), Theresa A. (b 1954) and John A. (b 1957). Harry was a Marine, so they spent many years at various military bases, including Quantico and Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina.
While living in North Carolina, Alcea became head nurse and supervisor at
Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, N.C.
Harry and Alcea
Fager - 1968
When Harry retired from the Marines, they bought a home in the Plantsville section of Southington, CT. They continued to live there, after Harry retired from
Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. In Southington, Alcea worked as a
substitute school nurse in the Southington school system and did private
duty for Bradley Barnes.
Their son Harry E. Jr. married Diane M. Simoneau (b 1957) on 13 May 1983, in
Plainville, CT. Their daughter, Theresa A., married Thomas R. Pigeon (b
1949) on 15 Oct 1983, in Southington, CT. Son, John
A., married Deborah A. Oshana (b 1961) on 12 Jun 1982, in New Britain, CT.
Harry Jr. and Diane had two children: Abbey (b 1986) and Mitchell
(b 1988). Terry and Thomas had one daughter, Bethany (b 1987). Jackie and Deborah had two children, before their divorce:
Mallory (b 1985), and Michael (b 1989).
After her husband
Harry's death on 2 Jun 2010, Alcea moved to The Orchards at Southington,
where she lived until her death at the age of 86.
DEATH:
Alcea died on 21 July 2011, in Southington, CT
BURIAL: St. James Cemetery, on 26 Jul 2011, in a family plot with her
husband, Harry E. Fager (d 2 Jun 2010); Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon; Father,
John Joseph Dillon (d 28 Aug 1968); sister Eleanor Dillon Petitjean (d 25 Jun 1976);
brother-in-law, William G. Petitjean (d 25 Jul 2010); sister, Julia Dillon Crighton
(d 17 May 1964); brother-in-law, David B. Crighton (d 21 Jun 1995); sister,
Jeanne Dillon Furtado; and brother-in-law, Edward J. Furtado (d 26 Apr 2003). The grave stone also memorializes
her brother, Edward Patrick Dillon, who disappeared when his jet plane crashed off of Cape Cod, MA in 1954.
Edward Patrick
Dillon
BIRTH: 18 Jun 1928, in Naugatuck, CT
NICKNAME: Beau
BIOGRAPHY:
The Family was living on their second farm, five acres sloping down
(East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area, when Edward was born in 1928.
At the time of the 1930 Census, Edward was 1 year and 9 months old, and living with his Father, John (40), Mother, Alice (35), brothers: John (14), and William (8), and sisters, Eleanor (12), Julia (10), and Alcea (5), at 648 Church Street, Naugatuck, CT
(3-WD - Series: T626; Roll: 274; Page: 106; District:
185). His Father, John,
was a laborer at the Zinc Mill.
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
At the age of four, Beau was the object of a massive, 8 hour search, when he wandered off during a family vacation at Milford Beach. He was found with another toddler, less than four blocks away.
In 1946, Beau was 18 years old, and living at 421 Spring Street, Union City, Naugatuck, CT (Waterbury, Naugatuck, and Watertown, Connecticut City Directory, 1946), with
his Father, John J. (56), an inspector in Waterbury; his Mother, Alice M.
(52); his
sister, Alice H. (22), a nurse in Waterbury; and his sister, Jeanne (14).
Beau joined the marines a few months after graduating from
Naugatuck High School, and completed training, but was honorably discharged when WWII ended.
He began studying at New Britain State Teacher's College, using his GI benefits, and
money from part time jobs, including singing with a band on Saturday nights, and stock car racing.
When the Korean War started, he enlisted in the Air Force, but was drafted into the Army and had to go
through basic training before he was transferred into the Air Force.
He flew in the 18th Tactical Fighter Group, out of the K-55 Airfield at Osan
Ni, during the Korean War. He was shot down in his F86F Aircraft, on 15 June
1953, over Korea, and the family had no word of him until the POW's names were released at the end of the war.
He had been burned about the face and neck and had received some
shrapnel wounds from the explosion of his plane. He had ejected, and landed by parachute in the midst of the enemy.
Beau was a prisoner, mostly in solitary confinement, until the end of the war.
Beau was one of the last 100 POW's released. His brother, John, was
serving with the 5th Air Force, 13th Bomb Squadron, in Korea, and waited for
Beau's name to appear on the list of released prisoners. He finally
located him at the Tokyo Army Hospital in Japan.
Beau and John
Dillon, Tokyo, Japan - 1953
When
Beau returned home, the town of Naugatuck honored him and other veterans, with a parade and ceremonies
called "Dillon Day", on October 24, 1953. He later became engaged to Judy Kiernan (b 1933, CT), a resident of Naugatuck who had been a private first class of the WAF (Women in the Air Force).
Beau continued to serve in the Air Force.
Back
Home,
after Korean War
On December 7, 1954, while stationed at Westover Air Force
Base (Air Defense Command squadron of F86D interceptors), Beau was sent on a Strategic Air Command mission to identify an unknown aircraft.
Normally, these interceptor missions were done in pairs, but Westover was covering for Otis Air Force Base, which was snowed in.
Beau completed the interception and identified the aircraft as an airliner, of an American based airline.
He called it in to Otis and shortly after radioed that his engine had flamed out.
He could not get the ejection system to operate and was going to make a flame out approach and descent for a water landing in Long Island Sound, southward of Otis.
No trace of Beau or his aircraft were ever seen again.
Beau
Dillon
Painted
by his brother - Col. John Dillon
DEATH:
7 Dec 1954, off Cape Cod, MA, at the age of 26. The grave stone at his family's burial plot, in St. James Cemetery, Naugatuck, CT, memorializes his death.
Jeanne Maureen
Dillon
BIRTH: 3 May 1932 in Union City, CT.
BIOGRAPHY:
The family was living on their second farm, five acres sloping down
(East) to Hop Brook, in the North Church Street area, when Jean was born in 1932. She was the seventh of seven
children, and her name was chosen by her brothers and sisters, who held a meeting to decide.
After Grandma Hickey died, in 1934, the family moved back in with Grandpa Hickey at 421 North Spring Street, Naugatuck, CT. Shortly after that, Grandpa Hickey built a three room, brick bungalow (with fireplace), on his next door lot, and moved there.
In 1946, Jeanne was 14 years old, and living at 421 Spring Street, Union City, Naugatuck, CT (Waterbury, Naugatuck, and Watertown, Connecticut City Directory, 1946), with
her Father, John J. (56), an inspector in Waterbury; her Mother, Alice M.
(52); her
sister, Alice H. (22), a nurse in Waterbury; and her brother, Beau (18).
Jeanne received training as an X-Ray
Technician, after graduation from Naugatuck High School. She also was
chosen to be "Miss Union City", in a local beauty contest.
Jeanne
- 1951
She married Edward J. Furtado
(b 14 Apr 1929, in Bristol, RI) in 1951, and they spent most of their married life in Prospect,
CT. While living there, Jeanne wrote
columns for the Naugatuck Daily News, as the Prospect Correspondent (Article
in Naugatuck News - 27 Nov 1974). She also served as the Prospect Town Clerk, for many years.
Jeanne and Ed had seven children: Debra Jeanne (b 1953), Edward Joseph Jr. (b 1955), Bruce John (b 1958), Ellen Marie (b 1960), Mark James (b 1964), Lisa
A. (b 1967), and Thomas Dillon (b 1970).
Bruce,
Eddie and Debra Furtado - 1959
Their daughter, Debra, married Robert H. Knapp (b 1952) on 3 Dec 1977, in Prospect, CT, and had two children: Kimberly
Jeanne and Robert Holland III (Beau). Their son, Edward, married Karen A. Mikletonas (b 1957) on 19 Jun 1982, in Wolcott,
CT, and had two children: Gina, and John. Son, Bruce, married Christa Barbieri (b 1960) on 23 Aug 1986, in Waterbury,
CT, and had two children: Michael and Justine. Daughter, Ellen, married Leslie R. Feero (b 1944) on 29 Feb 1980, in Cheshire, CT. Daughter, Lisa, married Charles L. May (b 1957) on 10 Sep1988, in Middlebury,
CT, and had two children, Charles and Christi, before their divorce.
DEATH: Jeanne died as the result of cancer, at the age of 66, on 15 Jan 1999, in Prospect, CT.
BURIAL: St. James Cemetery, in a family plot with Mother, Alice Hickey Dillon, Father, John Joseph Dillon (d
28 Aug 1968), sister, Julia Dillon Crighton (d 17 May 1964), sister Eleanor Dillon Petitjean (d 25 Jun 1976) and brother-in-law, David
B. Crighton (d 21 Jun 1995).
After her death, her husband, Edward J. Furtado (d 26 Apr 2003); brother-in-law,William
G. Petitjean (d 25 Jul 2010); brother-in-law, David Crighton (d 21 Jun 1995);
sister, Alice Dillon Fager (d 21 Jul 2011); and brother-in-law, Harry E.
Fager (d 2 Jun 2010) were also buried there. The grave stone also
memorializes her brother, Edward Patrick Dillon, who disappeared when his
jet plane crashed off of Cape Cod, MA in 1954.
Theresa Mary
Dillon
BIRTH: Born prematurely (6
months), on 11 Oct
1936, at St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT. V. P. Duffy was the
attending physician.
DEATH: She died the same day, 11 Oct 1936, at St. Mary's Hospital,
Waterbury, CT.
BURIAL: St. James Cemetery, Naugatuck, CT, on top of Grandma Ellen Hickey's coffin.
Last
picture of all seven Dillons - 1951
