Last tribute was paid at his funeral, on Friday morning, to the memory of Gerald O’Neill, whose death occurred after an illness of several months on Wednesday. He was 28.
The funeral was held from the Whelan Funeral Home. 5131 Cooper street, to St. Patrick's Church, where requiem high mass was chanted by Rev. M. Mooney, parish priest of Darling, Ont., The cortege proceeded by motor to St. Brigid’s Church, Osgoode, where a Libera was chanted by Rev. F. Tierney, who also said the prayers in the parish cemetery.
Chief mourners were his father, Eugene O’Neill; two brothers, Leonard and Emmett O'Neill, of Ottawa; and his sister, Rev. Sister Mary Eugene, of the Grey Nuns of the immaculate Conception, Pembroke.
Among the numerous floral and spiritual tributes were pieces from the Uptown Taxi, and M. Landreville and employes, Ottawa.
