Lifelong Greenport resident Joseph E. Heaney, 75, died of natural causes March 29 at University Medical Center at Stony Brook.
Born June 5, 1923, to William and Julia (McCaffrey) Heaney, he served with the U.S. Army in World War II and worked as a maintenance mechanic on Plum Island with the Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1985.
Mr. Heaney was a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport, Catholic War Veterans, Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad, and Suffolk County Volunteer Fireman's Association.
He was known in the neighborhood as "Mr. Fix-It," his family said, and his hobbies included carpentry, gardening, fishing, bowling and darts.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Victoria (Danowski); two sons, Michael, of Brockport, N.Y., and Mark, of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; two daughters, Bea Crimi of Greenport and Joanne Heaney of Vienna, Va.; and six grandchildren.
Visiting hours were Tuesday and Wednesday at S.B. Horton Funeral Home, Greenport. Msgr. John Sullivan will conduct funeral services at 9 a.m. today, Thursday, at St. Agnes R.C. Church, to be followed by interment at St. Agnes Cemetery, Greenport.
Memorial donations may be made to the Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad.
Obit published in The Suffolk Times on April 1, 1999
Born June 5, 1923, to William and Julia (McCaffrey) Heaney, he served with the U.S. Army in World War II and worked as a maintenance mechanic on Plum Island with the Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1985.
Mr. Heaney was a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport, Catholic War Veterans, Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad, and Suffolk County Volunteer Fireman's Association.
He was known in the neighborhood as "Mr. Fix-It," his family said, and his hobbies included carpentry, gardening, fishing, bowling and darts.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Victoria (Danowski); two sons, Michael, of Brockport, N.Y., and Mark, of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; two daughters, Bea Crimi of Greenport and Joanne Heaney of Vienna, Va.; and six grandchildren.
Visiting hours were Tuesday and Wednesday at S.B. Horton Funeral Home, Greenport. Msgr. John Sullivan will conduct funeral services at 9 a.m. today, Thursday, at St. Agnes R.C. Church, to be followed by interment at St. Agnes Cemetery, Greenport.
Memorial donations may be made to the Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad.
Obit published in The Suffolk Times on April 1, 1999
Lifelong Greenport resident Joseph E. Heaney, 75, died of natural causes March 29 at University Medical Center at Stony Brook.
Born June 5, 1923, to William and Julia (McCaffrey) Heaney, he served with the U.S. Army in World War II and worked as a maintenance mechanic on Plum Island with the Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1985.
Mr. Heaney was a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport, Catholic War Veterans, Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad, and Suffolk County Volunteer Fireman's Association.
He was known in the neighborhood as "Mr. Fix-It," his family said, and his hobbies included carpentry, gardening, fishing, bowling and darts.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Victoria (Danowski); two sons, Michael, of Brockport, N.Y., and Mark, of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; two daughters, Bea Crimi of Greenport and Joanne Heaney of Vienna, Va.; and six grandchildren.
Visiting hours were Tuesday and Wednesday at S.B. Horton Funeral Home, Greenport. Msgr. John Sullivan will conduct funeral services at 9 a.m. today, Thursday, at St. Agnes R.C. Church, to be followed by interment at St. Agnes Cemetery, Greenport.
Memorial donations may be made to the Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad.
Obit published in The Suffolk Times on April 1, 1999
Born June 5, 1923, to William and Julia (McCaffrey) Heaney, he served with the U.S. Army in World War II and worked as a maintenance mechanic on Plum Island with the Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1985.
Mr. Heaney was a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport, Catholic War Veterans, Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad, and Suffolk County Volunteer Fireman's Association.
He was known in the neighborhood as "Mr. Fix-It," his family said, and his hobbies included carpentry, gardening, fishing, bowling and darts.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Victoria (Danowski); two sons, Michael, of Brockport, N.Y., and Mark, of Wheat Ridge, Colo.; two daughters, Bea Crimi of Greenport and Joanne Heaney of Vienna, Va.; and six grandchildren.
Visiting hours were Tuesday and Wednesday at S.B. Horton Funeral Home, Greenport. Msgr. John Sullivan will conduct funeral services at 9 a.m. today, Thursday, at St. Agnes R.C. Church, to be followed by interment at St. Agnes Cemetery, Greenport.
Memorial donations may be made to the Greenport Fire Department Rescue Squad.
Obit published in The Suffolk Times on April 1, 1999
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