Ann Ferry O'Donnell
Born 1910
Died: November 1979
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery outside Philadelphia
Ann was born in 1910. She was the
baby of the family, and her nickname among her brother's and sister's
was "Baaby". She would be the best educated of the family
- the older ones, some grown and gone by the time she was born,
made it possible for her parents to allow her to continue on at
school longer than the children in the family.
She came to America with her brother,
Joe, in the late summer of 1929. They had departed from the port
of Moville, and landed at New York City in August. Immediately
took train to Philadelphia, where brother Jimmy was waiting for
them
She married John O'Donnell and made
a home in West Philadelphia, on Jefferson Street, not far from
her sister, Grace, and also not far from her brother, Joe.
For many years, she worked in the
famous Philadephia department store, Lit Brothers. Her son, Jack,
told us that before working at Lits, she had been a waitress at
the Union League in downtown Philadelphia.
She had two children: John, sometimes
called Jack after his uncle, sometimes John to honor his father;
and a daughter Ann - named for her mother as well as her grandmother.
She and her family were able to make a visit home to Falcarragh
sometime during the late 1970's..
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| It must be Uncle John O'Donnell that
was taking this picture. It is Christmas 1950 at 5823 Chester
Avenu - Joe's house in Philadelphia.. Annie is at rear to
my mother, Florence's, right. Her daughter Annie is directly
below. Annie's son, John, is behind his Uncle Joe. AnnMarie
Ferry is at left with cowboy hat and dog, Eileen in her father's
lap. Joe's sons, Jimmy and Joey, flank him. |
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| Dan, Joe, Annie, Hughie, and Grace. Hughie
and Joe Clarke had visited the States in October of 1970.
This picture is of five of the six (at that time) surviving
brother's and sisters, only Pata, in Scotland, was absent.
The occasion was a party for Hughie and Joe Clarke at their
departure back to Ireland. Annie would not see her big brother,
Hughie, agai;, he passed away the following year. |
Jimmy
Jacks
