Brooklyn, New York and formerly of Keelwest, Dooagh, who passed away peacefully in his home on Saturday, 1st August in the care of his devoted wife Peggy.<\/p>\n
Predeceased by his father Michael and mother Cissie (Bridget), sister Bridgie and brother Patrick.<\/p>\n
Tom will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by his wife Peggy, devoted son John, daughter in law Aileen, grandchildren Kevin, Eve and John. His brother Michael John English (Bunacurry) and sister Mary Toolis (Keel). Brother in Law Greg, sisters in law Kathleen and Bridgie Ann, nieces, nephews, extended family, neighbours, relatives and his many friends.<\/p>\n
Tom\u2019s kindness and strength touched the lives of all who knew him not only in his home of Achill but also by many Achill people visiting New York where he was always willing to act as tour guide as Captain of the Circle Line and Statue of Liberty Ferries.<\/p>\n
He will be remembered with great affection, and his memory will be treasured forever by his family and friends.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn, New York and formerly of Keelwest, Dooagh, who passed away peacefully in his home on Saturday, 1st…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-582555","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\/582555","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=582555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}