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July 6, 2010 6:00 pm

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July 7, 2010 6:00 pm

From President Andy Sprehe:

It is with a sad heart that I share with you that John O’Neal passed away about 6:00 o’clock Friday evening. Information about services will be forthcoming.

Please keep Ethel, Leigh, John Jr, and the rest of John’s family in your prayers.

Here is the information for the visitation and funeral:

Tuesday, July 6
Visitation – 6 to 8:30 p.m, Church of the Nativity (http://www.kcnativity.org/) 119th and Mission Road
AOH and friends gathering after Visitation at Governor Stumpy’s – Gregory and Oak, KCMO.

Wednesday, July 7
Funeral Mass – 11:00 a.m., Church of the Nativity (http://www.kcnativity.org/) 119th and Mission Road
Graveside Services – immediately following Mass, Newcomer’s Sons (http://www.johnsoncountychapel.com) 11200 Metcalf Avenue
Reception immediately following at Bacchanalia – 1:00 ish to ?

Clothing
Please wear appropriate funeral attire – dark suit or coat and tie. You do NOT need to wear your AOH clothing for the visitation or the funeral. Please feel free to wear your AOH lapel pin.

Kilt Crew
For brothers with the County Cavan kilts, we will need your services for an Honor Guard for the Funeral Mass. Shaun Cronin will contact our Kilt Crew to share details of uniform and roles at the services according to the family’s wishes.

Coordination with the family
Because John touched so many lives and our great Irish community will naturally reach out to help, we ask our members who are not part of John’s family to reach out to Andy Sprehe regarding any questions about services and such. Andy will communicate with Craig Farewell, who is acting as the AOH liaison for the O’Neal family. The family is dealing with a lot of emotion, plans, and more. As current or past members of the AOH, we are relying on Andy Sprehe and Craig Farewell to coordinate all of the efforts for our involvement. Thank you for your help in this regard.