Peter and Virginia Foy Family

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The wedding of Virginia McKeon and Peter Joseph Foy on Wednesday, September 23,  1925.   ===>>

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Peter Joseph Foy
Virginia Mary McKeon  ===>>

<<===  Virginia Mary McKeon,
now Mrs Peter J Foy  

 
Blossom _and_sons.jpg (27851 bytes) <<===  Virginia "Blossom" Foy and her sons Peter (left) and Richard (right)

Sgt Peter Joseph Foy was a caisson driver during World War I.  His discharge papers note his excellent horsemanship.  He was in charge of breaking in horses in France and training the men in his group.  Photo taken 1918 or 1919.  ===>>

 

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Peter Joseph Foy Jr  did his  training for the US Marines at Parris Island Sc and Camp Lejeune NC during the summer of 1945.  He spent a year tour of duty in 1945-1946 in mainland China.  ===>>

 

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<<===  Peter and Eileen Foy with their baby daughter, Sharon Marie in a photo taken in 1960.

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<<=== Peter Joseph Foy Jr in 1952.  He left MIT and underwent several operations for residual kidney problems resulting from a sledding accident when he was 11..  Shortly after this he drove cross country to California with his Aunt Cecelia, where both of them remained permanently.

Peter and Richard Foy in a photo taken Bronx New York around 1934 ===>> foys_peter_and_richard.jpg (62224 bytes) Richard and Mary Foy with their children Bridget and Peter in the front of their house at 12 Dwight Street, Poughkeepsie, NY in 1978  ===>> foys_at_dwight.jpg (67333 bytes)
wedding foy and morley.jpg (41742 bytes) <<=== Mary Morley and Richard Foy on their wedding day December 12, 1970.  Photo taken  by Joseph Foy. playland foys and morleys.jpg (47579 bytes) <<===  Peter and Virginia Foy and Joseph and Anita Morley at Playland, Rye circa 1938.

Bridget Morley Foy,
daughter of Richard and Mary Foy. ===>>


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Peter Joseph Foy,
son of Richard and Mary Foy  ===>>

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photo taken May 1999

<<===  Mr. Rogers  was the guest speaker at the Marist College graduation.   After the ceremony, he spent several minutes speaking with Bridget Foy about her experiences as a teacher in the South Bronx.  Rich Foy trying to listen.  Mr. Rogers, together with sociologist Jonothan Sokol, has been active with a school very near Sacred Heart, where Bridget taught.

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<<===  Richard Foy at a Boyden World Corp dinner in Budapest, Hungary.  He is seated next to Anne Montgomery Westerfield, wife of Putney Westerfield, who was Rich's boss 1984 - 1989. 

photo Fall 1999

John and Sharon Foy Swanke wih their children: Megan(4 1/2), Mike (15 1/2) and Erin(13), at Mike's Ad Altare Dei Catholic Boy Scout Religious Emblem ceremony.   Click on picture to see more photos of the Swanke family.   ===>>

photo taken May 2002

Mary Foy standing left of her daughter, Bridget, on Halloween 2002.  Mary was recovering from serious illness and was proud to be standing unaided.  ===>>

photo October 2002

<<===  The Foy family at Bridget's graduation from medical school.  l. to r.:  Richard, Mary, Bridget, Peter.

photo by Jason Pomerantz
 19 May 2003

<<===  Eileen Foy Zysk attended Bridget's graduation from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury NY.

photo by Richard Foy
19 May 2003

Bridget Foy married Jason Pomerantz on 7 June 2003.  Click on photo to see family members at the ceremony and the reception.  ===>>

photo 7 June 2003
by Kim Stucko

The Foy Family vacationed for two decades at Long Beach Island New Jersey.  Click on photo to see LBI scenes.  ===>>

 

<<===  The Foy family poses before the Dublin Pub on a visit to Peter and Tracy's digs in Morristown NJ. l-to-r:  Richard Foy,  Tracy Gibbons, Peter Foy.
next row:  Mary Foy, Bridget Foy Pomerantz
front:  Jason Pomerantz

photo mtwn009 taken by passerby using Mary's camera
20 Sept 2003

 

<<===  Peter and Richard Foy with their dog, Echo, in a photo taken at the rear of their house at 684 East 237 Street, Bronx NY

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 taken circa 1935
courtesy Eileen Zysk

 

l-to-r:  Peter, Harold Smith, and Richard Foy standing in the Foy's back yard at East 237 Street.  ===>>

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 taken circa 1935
courtesy Eileen Zysk

 

Richard Foy pestering his older brother Peter at the beach circa 1933.  ===>>

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 taken circa 1935
courtesy Eileen Zysk

 

<<=== r-to-l:  Cecelia Foy, Peter Foy, and Cecelia's friend Millie after Peter's discharge from the United States Marines in October 1946.

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courtesy Eileen Zysk

 

  <<=== Marist College holds an important place in the Foy family history.  Click on picture to see why ...

X marks the spot for Bill Naish, Mollie Howitt's brother, who ran away and joined the English Navy.  ===>>

photo dated 1913-1914
rec'd from Peter Foy

 

Mollie Naish Howitt (b 9 Feb 1892; d May 1990) lived in this house when she was age 11 through 19. ===>>

undated photo
rec'd from Peter Foy

 

<<===  The Agoura Hills CA Foys: Peter, Elieen and their daughter Sharon Marie.  Photo printed July 1982.

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archive collection

 

<<=== Eileen Foy and her husband Peter Foy, visited Richard Foy and his children Peter and Bridget Foy in Chappaqua.

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archive collection

 

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

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archive collection

 

Sharon and her uncle Joseph Foy at the Foy home in Escondido CA on 22 Sept 1972 ===>>

photo peg034 from the
peg kabriski collection

       
       
 
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