Obituary: Reverend James J. O’Shaughnessy

| 12/4/2024

By: The Good Newsroom

Father O’Shaughnessy entered eternal life on December 2, 2024. From 1978 until his retirement, he served as a faculty member at Cardinal Spellman High School

Father James J. O'Shaughnessy entered eternal life on December 2, 2024. From 1978 until his retirement, Father O’Shaughnessy served as a faculty member at Cardinal Spellman High School.

Father James O’Shaughnessy was born on March 11, 1940, in the Bronx, and was ordained on June 1, 1968. Father O’Shaughnessy entered eternal life on December 2, 2024. 

His first assignment was at the Church of the Holy Rosary in the Bronx, and he was later appointed as parochial vicar of Our Lady of Refuge, also in the Bronx, from 1972 to 1977. 

From 1978 until his retirement, Father O’Shaughnessy served as a faculty member at Cardinal Spellman High School and continued to reside there after retiring. He celebrated his golden jubilee in 2018. 

RECEPTION OF THE BODY AND WAKE ⦁ LYING IN REPOSE
Friday, December 6, 2024 ⦁ 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Main Chapel of the John Cardinal O’Connor Pavilion
5655 Arlington Avenue
Riverdale, NY 10471
718-581-0070

Entrusted to the care of the Riverdale-on-Hudson Funeral Home, Riverdale

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL
Friday, December 6, 2024 ⦁ 11 a.m.
Main Chapel of the John Cardinal O’Connor Pavilion
5655 Arlington Avenue ⦁ Riverdale, NY 10471
718-581-0070

Most Reverend Edmund J. Whalen, principal celebrant
To Be Determined, homilist

INTERMENT

St. Raymond Cemetery, Bronx

+REQUIESCAT IN PACE+

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