{"id":129193,"date":"2026-03-04T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129193\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:09:07","slug":"tony-rafferty-obituary-february-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129193\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Rafferty Obituary February 28, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pasted=\"true\">Tony Rafferty, age 58, of Upper Darby, PA, passed away on February 28, 2026. Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he was the beloved son of the late Francis and Bridget Rafferty (nee Campbell).<\/p>\n<p>Tony was the loving brother of Irene McGinley (Michael), Kieran Rafferty, Colette Rodgers, Monica McGinn, Frances Kelly (Paul), and S\u00edobh\u00e1n Brady. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p data-pasted=\"true\">Family and friends are invited to Tony\u2019s Viewing 9:30-10:30 AM on Thursday, March 5, 2026 at St. Laurence Church, 8245 West Chester Pike, Upper Darby, PA 19082, followed by his Funeral Mass at 10:30 AM. Interment Private, Tony will be Repatriated back to Ireland. Tony\u2019s Funeral Mass will be livestreamed and can be found here on the day of services: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/5770694?fl=so&amp;fe=fs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/event\/5770694?fl=so&amp;fe=fs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions in Tony\u2019s name can be made to The Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust, <a href=\"https:\/\/kbrtrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">kbrtrust.com<\/a>, would be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony Rafferty, age 58, of Upper Darby, PA, passed away on February 28, 2026. Born in Omagh, County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-129193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}