AGNES FEENEY REILLEY
Aug. 20, 1923-Feb 17, 2008
Agnes Feeney Reilley passed away Feb. 17, 2008 in San Francisco Aggie was the seventh of eight children born to John and Mary Feeney, who told her "it was a poor house that couldn't afford one lady" and raised her accordingly.
Aggie attended St. Rose Academy in San Francisco and Dominican College in San Rafael, Calif. She earned a lifetime teaching credential and had a life long love of reading, current affairs and all things political. She met the love of her life, Richard Reilley while summering at the Russian River after World War II and they were married by her brother, Monsignor George Feeney, in 1949. They moved to Chico in February, 1954 where they raised their seven children. Aggie and her good friend Faye McGowan owned and operated The Clothes Horse in downtown Chico for almost twenty years At age 62, Aggie was arrested for an act of civil disobedience after she chained herself to a chair to protest planned cutbacks in the local Chico libraries. Aggie was glamorous, elegant, devout and dignified. She was also a "pistol", who loved her life and was always appreciative of the wonderful life she had.
She was preceded into Peace by her husband, Richard and sons, John and Bill. She is survived by her sons, Richard, Martin (Beth Centis) and James; her daughters, Mary Eileen (Jim Krieg) and Kathleen (Michael May) and six grandchildren, Joe, Jane and Kelsey Reilley and Reilley, Charlie and Michael May, and many loving nephews, nieces and friends. Aggie was a proud San Franciscan and Chicoan. She was irrepressible and irreplaceable
A Rosary will be said Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Brusie Funeral Home, followed by a Mass of Christian burial Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church. Published in Chico Enterprise-Record on February 20, 2008
Aug. 20, 1923-Feb 17, 2008
Agnes Feeney Reilley passed away Feb. 17, 2008 in San Francisco Aggie was the seventh of eight children born to John and Mary Feeney, who told her "it was a poor house that couldn't afford one lady" and raised her accordingly.
Aggie attended St. Rose Academy in San Francisco and Dominican College in San Rafael, Calif. She earned a lifetime teaching credential and had a life long love of reading, current affairs and all things political. She met the love of her life, Richard Reilley while summering at the Russian River after World War II and they were married by her brother, Monsignor George Feeney, in 1949. They moved to Chico in February, 1954 where they raised their seven children. Aggie and her good friend Faye McGowan owned and operated The Clothes Horse in downtown Chico for almost twenty years At age 62, Aggie was arrested for an act of civil disobedience after she chained herself to a chair to protest planned cutbacks in the local Chico libraries. Aggie was glamorous, elegant, devout and dignified. She was also a "pistol", who loved her life and was always appreciative of the wonderful life she had.
She was preceded into Peace by her husband, Richard and sons, John and Bill. She is survived by her sons, Richard, Martin (Beth Centis) and James; her daughters, Mary Eileen (Jim Krieg) and Kathleen (Michael May) and six grandchildren, Joe, Jane and Kelsey Reilley and Reilley, Charlie and Michael May, and many loving nephews, nieces and friends. Aggie was a proud San Franciscan and Chicoan. She was irrepressible and irreplaceable
A Rosary will be said Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Brusie Funeral Home, followed by a Mass of Christian burial Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church. Published in Chico Enterprise-Record on February 20, 2008
AGNES FEENEY REILLEY
Aug. 20, 1923-Feb 17, 2008
Agnes Feeney Reilley passed away Feb. 17, 2008 in San Francisco Aggie was the seventh of eight children born to John and Mary Feeney, who told her "it was a poor house that couldn't afford one lady" and raised her accordingly.
Aggie attended St. Rose Academy in San Francisco and Dominican College in San Rafael, Calif. She earned a lifetime teaching credential and had a life long love of reading, current affairs and all things political. She met the love of her life, Richard Reilley while summering at the Russian River after World War II and they were married by her brother, Monsignor George Feeney, in 1949. They moved to Chico in February, 1954 where they raised their seven children. Aggie and her good friend Faye McGowan owned and operated The Clothes Horse in downtown Chico for almost twenty years At age 62, Aggie was arrested for an act of civil disobedience after she chained herself to a chair to protest planned cutbacks in the local Chico libraries. Aggie was glamorous, elegant, devout and dignified. She was also a "pistol", who loved her life and was always appreciative of the wonderful life she had.
She was preceded into Peace by her husband, Richard and sons, John and Bill. She is survived by her sons, Richard, Martin (Beth Centis) and James; her daughters, Mary Eileen (Jim Krieg) and Kathleen (Michael May) and six grandchildren, Joe, Jane and Kelsey Reilley and Reilley, Charlie and Michael May, and many loving nephews, nieces and friends. Aggie was a proud San Franciscan and Chicoan. She was irrepressible and irreplaceable
A Rosary will be said Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Brusie Funeral Home, followed by a Mass of Christian burial Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church. Published in Chico Enterprise-Record on February 20, 2008
Aug. 20, 1923-Feb 17, 2008
Agnes Feeney Reilley passed away Feb. 17, 2008 in San Francisco Aggie was the seventh of eight children born to John and Mary Feeney, who told her "it was a poor house that couldn't afford one lady" and raised her accordingly.
Aggie attended St. Rose Academy in San Francisco and Dominican College in San Rafael, Calif. She earned a lifetime teaching credential and had a life long love of reading, current affairs and all things political. She met the love of her life, Richard Reilley while summering at the Russian River after World War II and they were married by her brother, Monsignor George Feeney, in 1949. They moved to Chico in February, 1954 where they raised their seven children. Aggie and her good friend Faye McGowan owned and operated The Clothes Horse in downtown Chico for almost twenty years At age 62, Aggie was arrested for an act of civil disobedience after she chained herself to a chair to protest planned cutbacks in the local Chico libraries. Aggie was glamorous, elegant, devout and dignified. She was also a "pistol", who loved her life and was always appreciative of the wonderful life she had.
She was preceded into Peace by her husband, Richard and sons, John and Bill. She is survived by her sons, Richard, Martin (Beth Centis) and James; her daughters, Mary Eileen (Jim Krieg) and Kathleen (Michael May) and six grandchildren, Joe, Jane and Kelsey Reilley and Reilley, Charlie and Michael May, and many loving nephews, nieces and friends. Aggie was a proud San Franciscan and Chicoan. She was irrepressible and irreplaceable
A Rosary will be said Thursday evening, Feb. 21, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Brusie Funeral Home, followed by a Mass of Christian burial Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at St. John's Catholic Church. Published in Chico Enterprise-Record on February 20, 2008
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