{"id":433535,"date":"2026-05-05T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:02:07","slug":"death-notice-of-john-o-rourke-killucan-westmeath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/433535\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Notice of John O\u2019 Rourke (Killucan, Westmeath)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Martin O\u2019Rourke, <br \/>of Fresh Meadows, New York, and formerly of Killucan, Co. Westmeath, passed away peacefully on April 23rd, 2026, surrounded by his wife Assumpta (n\u00e9e McEvoy), son Matthew and daughter Jennifer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For years, John fought a long, tough battle with cancer, but his positive mindset and radiant smile never failed to carry him each day. He is reunited with his parents, Laurence and Rita (Curley) O\u2019Rourke, and brother Joseph. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is lovingly remembered by his sisters Ita &amp; Anne, brothers; Hughie, James, Tony, Larry, &amp; Tom, sisters-in-law; Loretta, Elaine, Celine, Cristina, Teresa, Kathleen, Margaret, Josephine, &amp; Marie, brothers-in-law; Martin, Declan, Gerard &amp; Patrick, his mother-in-law Josie, and also  his many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">May he Rest In Peace. <\/p>\n<p>Reposing at Boyd\u2019s Funeral Home, Birr, Co. Offaly, (R42 YF75) on Friday, May 8th, from <br \/>5 p.m. to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Removal on Saturday, May 9th, from Boyd\u2019s Funeral Home to St. James\u2019s Church, Eglish (R42 K377) for Funeral  Mass at 12 noon, followed by burial in the adjoining Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>Family flowers only; donations can be made to St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital <br \/>or Little Sisters of the Poor in remembrance of John.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.stjude.org\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2Scuqd5cZf\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/littlesistersofthepoor.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HomePage<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cHomePage\u201d \u2014 Little Sisters of the Poor St. Jeanne Jugan Communications\" src=\"https:\/\/littlesistersofthepoor.org\/embed\/#?secret=LFCPiZM1Q0#?secret=2Scuqd5cZf\" data-secret=\"2Scuqd5cZf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Martin O\u2019Rourke, of Fresh Meadows, New York, and formerly of Killucan, Co. Westmeath, passed away peacefully on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-433535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}