Uniquely Medfield
DeSorgher: A Eulogy to Bill Kelly
Town historian Richard DeSorgher gave the eulogy at William "Bill" Kelly's funeral at St. Edward's Church this past Saturday. Kelly passed away at the Thomas Upham House on May 13. He was 88 years old.
He was as Medfield as you can get and oh how he loved his little town of Medfield. William Joseph “Bill” Kelly was born in the same 32 Miller St. home, he would live in for his entire life. His great grandparents, John and Mary, would arrive in America and in Boston in 1848 in the mist of the Great Irish Potato Famine. John found work as a laborer and eventually moved out to West Dedham, today the town of Westwood. There they had a son, John Joseph who later married Agnes Lynch and who moved seven miles further west to the small farming community of Medfield. There in 1895, John operated a small blacksmith shop on what is today Janes Avenue, a shop he had purchased from Irishman William Ryan. He would later sell the shop to another …
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