Patrick and Susan Foy Family

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<<=== Susan Orwell Foy in her nursing uniform

photo circa 1915
mk_susan_foy_nurse
courtesy Monica Kingston

<<===Patrick Foy in his policeman's uniform.  He followed Paddy Murray onto the force after working on the elevated train lines.

photo courtesy Karie Frisiras, Patrick's great granddaughter

This was probably a wedding photo for Patrick Foy and Susan Orwell, taken 1918  ===>>

photo foy_patrick_susan
courtesy of Ginger Foy Duvall

 

Peter Aloysius Foy was Patrick's younger son.  He attended Regis High School, a Jesuit instituion tuition-free with admission by competitive examination, and graduated about 1940.  He then studied at SUNY Farmingdale on Long Island for two years before transferring to Cornell University. ===>>

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<<===  Patrick Foy and Susan Olwell were married in Manhattan t St Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue on 31 March 1918.

certificate 9271 located in NYC Municipal Archives
photo by Rich Foy
22 June 2005

<<===  Daniel Murray and Mary Donnelly were the witnesses.  Daniel was a good friend and mentor for Patrick Foy

 certificate 9271 located in NYC Municipal Archives
photo by Rich Foy
22 June 2005

Joseph Foy at his sister Eileen Zysk's house in Livingston New Jersey in 1983.  Joe became interested in photography when he became a pilot for Eastern Airlines, and was considered the "family photographer" by most of us.   ===>>
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 Joseph Foy graduated from LaSalle Academy, 2nd street, New York City, about 1938.  He then attended City College for one year, but was unhappy with the general academic climate, and left for the US Army AirForce. ===>>

 

<<===  Kathleen Foy visited her NY and NJ relatives in 1992, and she and Joseph visited Atlantic City.

photo December 1992

 

<<===  Patrick and Susan Foy's children in a photo of the 1930s. Top:  Peter, Eileen and Monica.  Bottom: Joseph and Kathleen.

jfa028 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

<<===  Josephine White (not pictured)  went to the Kabriski house in Flushing to share her trip with :
front l-to-r: Peg Mullin Kabriski, Matt Kabriski, Monica Foy
back l-too-r: Paddy Foy, Margaret Foy, Eileen Foy Zysk,  Eddie Zysk

photo rf 023  4 Sept 1961
from Peg Kabriski collection

<<===  Susan Orwell Foy with her five children in a photo taken around 1930, probably at Coney Island or Rockaway Beach NY.
top l-to-r: Joseph, Peter
Eileen, Monica, Kathleen
 

photo mk_susan_and_children
courtesy of Monica Kingston

 

uncle_paddy_foy.jpg (51561 bytes) <<===  Patrick Foy in a picture taken circa 1980.

photo by Rich Foy

<<=== This was the home of Patrick and Susan Foy and their children at 111-27 41 Ave, Corona, Queens, NY.  Patrick and Joseph remained there until Patrick died in 1981.  Joseph then sold the house and moved to Roseland, NJ

photo ez014
courtesy Eileen Zysk

Patrick Joseph Foy (we always called him "Joe" to differentiate him from his father) in August 1943 during his training to become pilot of B-24s and B-17s. ===>>

photo ez009
courtesy Eileen Foy Zysk

Joseph Foy in a postcard photo taken near the end of his career as a pilot for Eastern Airlines ===>>

photo ez008
dated April 1978
courtesy Eileen Foy Zysk

Joseph Foy kept almost all the paperwork associated with his time as a US pilot, but rarely spoke of his activity.

<<===  Joe's discharge papers

Joe's record of 35 missions in Europe.  After completion of the missions, he was sent to Nevada to train B-24 pilots.  ===>>

photos ez007, ez005, ez006 courtest Eileen Zysk

Peg Mullin Kabriski at left speaking with Eileen and James Foy at a party at Eileen and Ed Zysk's house in Livingston New Jersey.  James and Joseph Foy were cousins and close friends ===>>

photo ez010 May 1981
courtesy Eileen Foy Zysk

Mary Foy Mullin, Patrick Foy and Mary's daughter May Mullin (later Gillen) with the Foy children:
l-to-r:  Peter Aloysius, Patrick Joseph
Eileen, Monica, Kathleen ===>>

undated photo ez012
courtesy Eileen Foy Zysk

<<===  Patrick Foy, Margaret Foy and Jane Foy O'Grady in a photo dated June 1977 taken on the front porch of the O'Grady house  in Yorktown Heights NY 

photo rec'd Oct 2004
from Monica Foy Kingston

 

<<=== Joseph Foy, his Aunt Jane Foy O'Grady and his father Patrick Foy in an undated photo.  It probably was taken at the Zysk home in Livingston NJ in the early 1970's

photo rec'd Oct 2004
from Monica Foy Kingston

 

Four of the Foy children.  Left to right:  Monica, Kathleen, Peter, and Eileen ===>>

jfa019 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

Peter Foy was a cousin,   living in Knockatubber, who is buried with his parents in the Abbey.  He died in 1941.  A lover of horses, he raced them in the county fairs, using young Peter Joseph Foy as a jockey. ===>>

jfa008 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

<<===  Joseph Foy and his second cousin, Geraldine Foy, sitting on the steps of Josephine Mullin White's apartment at 11 Washington Square NYC.  The occasion was a birthday party for Josephine.  Geraldine was a member of the Foy family who lived in Knockatubber, down the road from Garryedmond.

jfa011 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

<<===  After Patrick Foy died  Joseph Foy sold the house in Corona NY and purchased a townhouse in Roseland NJ, close to his sister Eileen Zysk and the O'Gradys.

jfa012 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

Patrick Foy shares a private moment with his sister Jane Foy O'Grady during a gathering at the Rich  & Mary Foy house in Chappaqua NY ===>>

jfa016 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

Patrick and Susan Foy's family grew up in this house at 111-27 41st Street, in Corona, Queens NY.  Patrick remained in this house until his death in June 1981. Note the elevated tracks of the Flushing train line, which brought family members to Manhattan in 30 minutes.  ===>>

 

jfa024 from the
Joseph Foy collection

 

<<=== Andrew Olwell, Susan Olwell's brother in a portrait photo taken in Portchester NY

jfa010— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<=== Patrick Foy with his two sons, Joseph and Peter, in a snapshot taken in the 1920's.

jfa029— joseph foy
archive collection

Joseph Foy holds Brittany Braunbach, one of his grand nieces ===>>

jfa032— joseph foy
archive collection

 

Patrick Foy and his daughter Eileen Zysk speak with Ginger Duvall and Glenn Kistner.  Ginger is Peter A Foy's daughter.  ===>>

jfa022— joseph foy
archive collection
photo dated 78-10-5

<<===  Monica Foy in Hawaii at Christmas 1996.  She suffered from Parkinson's Disease until her death.

jfa031— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<===  Monica, Joseph and Kathleen Foy in Hawaii May 1967.

jfa033— joseph foy
archive collection

 

Three Monicas from the Foy group: l-to-r;  Monica Foy, Monica Jean Foy Kingston, daughter of Peter and Ruth Foy, and Monica Hartman Fessel, daughter of Cletus and Eileen Hartman ===>>

jfa038— joseph foy
archive collection

 

Monica Foy in Hawaii, unknown site and unknown date ===>>

jfa034— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<=== Patrick Foy shoveling snow in front of his Corona house 14 Jan 1964.  He was 75 at the time.

jfa039— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<===  Eileen Foy Zysk at her house in Livingston NJ
 1 November 1992

jfa037— joseph foy
archive collection

 

Joseph Foy and his cousin Richard Foy photographed in the Corona house ===>>

jfa064— joseph foy
archive collection

 

Joseph Foy and his sister Eileen Foy Zysk were active members of the Livingston NJ Historical Society.  Here Eileen (2nd from right) stands with her friends Adele, Louise and Hilda Parks ===>>

jfa065— joseph foy
archive collection

<<=== Patrick Foy sailed to Ireland on the Normandy from New York City.  Here are family members attending the sendoff  l-to-r:  Jane O'Grady, Richard Foy, Peter Aloysius Foy, and Eileen Foy Zysk.

jfa060— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<=== Patrick and Susan Foy with their two boys, Peter Aloysius and Patrick Joseph in Central Park NYC around 1922.

jfa069— joseph foy
archive collection

 

 

Joseph and Peter Foy pose in front of an airplane in the early 1920s.  Joe's interest in flying continued all his life.  He was a bomber pilot in Europe during WW II, then flew for Eastern Airlines until his retirement.  ===>>

jfa068— joseph foy
archive collection

Susan Olwell Foy surrounded by her five children: in back are Joseph and Peter Foy; front l-to-r are Eileen, Monica and Kathleen Foy.  White haired man at right is Susan's father, Andrew Olwell.  ===>>

jfa066— joseph foy
archive collection

 

<<===  Eileen Zysk with her grandniece Courtney Kingston at Robin Duvall's wedding  on 8 July 2006.

Courtney is Monica Foy Kingston's daughter; Monica in turn is the daughter of Peter Aloysius Foy.

rec'd from Eileen Zysk
8 Nov 2006

   
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