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Peter Joseph Foy
(1896 - 1951) was the son of Brigid Morley and Patrick Foy of
Garryedmond.. Peter Joseph emigrated to the USA
in 1914, and in World War I became a caisson driver with the
US Army. On discharge from the
Army, he lived with the Mullins; the 1920 census describes him as
a chauffeur of taxicabs! Soon thereafter, he joined
Andrew Davey & Sons, a grocery chain, where he rose quickly to
the position of general manager of all the Davey stores.
When the Davey stores closed during the 1929 depression,
Peter organized a group of 12 small groceries, called Royal
Food Stores, operated by cousins and close friends, located
mostly in Yonkers NY. he became the general manager and
chief buyer for the group. In 1938, he disbanded the
stores; several operators purchased their own stores, notably
Jack Morley and Mike Morley in Yonkers, and these stores remain
in operation today. Peter then moved into the supermarket
chains, where he was used to open new stores and train managers.
He continued this until his death from cancer in 1951. He
is buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla NY Sect
42-6-D-13
 Peter married
Virginia McKeon (1900 - 1941) in 1925. She was the daughter
of Anna Clarissa Wearing McKeon and Thomas Francis McKeon, both
of Elmhurst, Queens, New York. The McKeon family arrived in New York City around the time of the Great
Famine. Thomas is listed as a wood turner in the 1880
census, living in Broome Street, Manhattan. Later he became
the captain of a fire department in Maspeth. He died of
smoke inhalation after a fire.
Peter Foy
had purchased a new house at 684 E 237 St in the Bronx. The
1930 census located them there with two sons. In that
census Peter is listed as a manager of a grocery. The house
had German tenants: Mrs. Elizabeth Wimmer, described as an
operator in a factory, and her nephew, August Gieg, a stock
broker on Wall Street. By the mid thirties, Mrs. Wimmer had
retired.
Peter
Joseph Foy Jr (1927 - ) served in the US Marines at the
end of World War II, attended
 of his business career in the computer/data processing
field, with North American Aviation, Hughes Aircraft and finally
NCR. Peter married Eileen Howitt (1918 - 2006)in
Los Angeles in 1956 The couple had one daughter, Sharon Marie (1960
- ) who married John Swanke and currently lives in Bloomington,
Illinois. (John served two tours in Kuwait/Iraq.) with her three children,
Michael, Erin and Megan. (See Peter's
autobiographical essay)
 Richard
Daniel Foy (1929 - ) pursued an academic career. He taught
in New York City Catholic secondary schools (1950-1958) while
pursuing masters and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics.
In 1958 he was named President of Marist College, Poughkeepsie,
New York, where he served for 21 years. He left the
education field in 1979 and became the chief operating officer of
Boyden World Corporation, an executive search firm with offices
in 50 countries, retiring at the end of 1999. Since then he
has been active in volunteer research work at Marist College,
teaching several computer courses, and working on several web
sites, including this one.
Richard married Mary Ellen Morley (1938 - 2006) in 1970; the couple had
two children. Peter Joseph Foy III (1974 - ) is a lawyer in
Morristown, NJ. He graduated from Marist College in 1995
and Seton Hall University School of Law in 1998. He Married
Tracy Gibbons (England ) in 2008; the couple have a daughter Zoë
Morley Foy (2009). Bridget Morley Foy
(1976 - ) graduatedd from Marist College in 1998 and completed medical school
in May 2003. She married Jason Scott Pomerantz on 7June 2003,
completed her internship and residency in Kingston, New York, and
in August 2006 joined a family practice group in
East Fishkill NY Bridget and Jay have one daughter,
Mary Josephine Pomerantz (2008).
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After a glass of wine this evening, I sent this to
my family:
I have set out my trash at the curb for
morning pickup. We have had a lovely weather day here in the Ozarks,
lovely warm and sunny and the wind has given us a rest.
Whilst on the computer this afternoon, Sharon,
daughter of longtime friends Peter and Eileen, came on instant mail to
remind me that Friday, 4/21, is the 50th wedding anniversary of her
parents.
I was one of Eileen's bridesmaids, her sister
Margaret was also one, and our friend Joan Cambria was the third
bridesmaid. Just think, 50 years ago, and I remember it so vividly. At
our wedding rehearsal, the Catholic priest said to me, "So you're the
black Protestant I've been hearing about." He was a big jokester.
A Catholic wedding Mass is a long ceremony.
They are in Laughlin, NE this week and Sharon
doesn't know when they will head home, so I mailed off a card and will
try calling them Friday at home, in case they are there.
They went off to Hawaii for a honeymoon 50 years
ago.
I was with Eileen the nite she met Peter....at the
Aragon Ballroom in Santa Monica. She is 6 ft. tall and Peter, who is
6'5" or thereabouts, spotted her from clear across the dance floor
before we had even checked our coats.
And, as they say, the rest is history. Two Irish
people found happiness....his last name is Foy, a good old Irish name.
I moved in with Mollie, Eileen's mother, because
they had a bungalow and I could get a piano there whereas I could not
have one in my apt. Mollie was born in Ireland and had an Irish
brogue, she ate "porridge" in the morning for breakfast. She was the
nearest thing to a saint I'll ever meet, and she dearly loved to watch
Phil Donohue on TV in the afternoon. And believe it or not, she loved
to listen to me play the piano, she loved music. And had the most
wonderful sense of humor of anyone I ever met.
I played the organ at her funeral at St. Xavier's
up the street from my house in Burbank.
"Gee, my old LaSalle ran great...those were the
days"....remember that tune? From the TV show All in the Family.
excerpt from an email from Charlotte
Hopwood to
Sharon Marie Foy Swanke 20 April 2006.
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