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Robert Andrew Sweeney Robert Andrew Sweeney,
65, a firefighter for Malden
Fire Department, where he worked for over
twenty six years, died Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at the Franklin Regional
Hospital in Franklin, New Hampshire. Bob
was born and educated in Somerville graduating in 1956. He then went to the Mass
Radio & Electronics School in Boston. and went to work for AT&T in
Cambridge as a technician. In 1961 he enlisted in the U.S. Army serving during
the Vietnam Era in Taiwan, China. When he was discharged in 1964 he became a
field engineer for Philco Ford in Thailand and when he returned to the states he
resumed his position at AT&T. He
was appointed to the Malden Fire Department in February of 1973 and was assigned
to the Linden Fire station where he was the driver of Engine 6.
In October of 1990 he was appointed Assistant Fire Alarm Supervisor as a
Captain and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1999.
Mr. Sweeney lived in Tilton, New Hampshire for the pat two years and was
previously from Malden, MA where he had resided for over thirty years. He is survived by his step-mother, Eleanor S. (Wood)
Sweeney of Tilton, NH, his sisters Doris Stuyvenberg of FL and Eleanor Giuffre
of Malden, his brothers; Paul
Sweeney of Malden, John Sweeney of Woburn and Lawrence Sweeney
of GA. He was preceded in death by his brother,
Francis Sweeney of Saugus. He was born June 10, 1938 in Somerville, Massachusetts the son of the late Jeremiah and Katherine (Ludwig) Sweeney Jr. Visitation will be held at the Weir MacCuish Funeral Home, 144 Salem Street, Malden, MA on Friday, Sept 26th, from 2-4 PM and 7-9 PM Funeral services will be held from the funeral home on Saturday, September 27, 2003 at 9:00 A.M. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Joseph's Church, 770 Salem Street, Malden, MA at 10:00 AM with Father William J. Minigan, Pastor of St. Joseph's Church officiating. Burial will be in the Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody.
Weir MacCuish Funeral Home (781) 322-0834 |
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