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2024139

CONDOLENCE: WILLIAM J. O'NEILL

Introduced
July 14, 2024
Latest action
July 14, 2024
Status
ADOPTED
District coverage
scope: countywide

Document text

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дво) DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE Condolence: William J. O'Neill Resolution No. 2024139 The Dutchess County Legislature offers the following and moves its adoption: WHEREAS, the Dutchess County Legislature has learned with great sadness and regret of the recent death of William J. O'Neill on July 5, 2024, and WHEREAS, Bill was born on May 16, 1938, in Red Hook, New York to the late Jack and Julia O'Neill, and WHEREAS, Bill was a graduate of Red Hook High School, Brown University, and Duke Law School, and WHEREAS, Bill married Mary Belliveau (Witter). Upon their divorce, Bill married Mary Zane Hawkins, who died in 1996, and then later married Jean Riale (Pellegrino) in 1997, who survives at home, and WHEREAS, Bill began his career as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina and was later hired as a Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney by Honorable WHEREAS, Bill was predeceased by his sister Claire O"Neill Carr, his brother John T. O'Neill, and his granddaughter Natalie O'Neill, and WHEREAS, in addition to his loving wife Jean O'Neill, Bill is survived by his children Elizabeth Avis, Daniel O'Neill, Adam O'Neill, and Alec O'Neill, his step-children Kama Borquist, Christopher Riale, and Stephanie Riale, his grandchildren lan, Maxwell, Isabel, Emily, William Audrey, Levi, Arden, Rosemary, Danielle, Trevor, Hudson, and Bradyn, his great grandchildrer Natalie, Jack, Daisy, Thumbelina, Verona, Llewyn, and Mabel, his sister-in-law Sandy O'Neill, his brother-in-law Geoffrey Carr, and several nephews and nieces, and WHEREAS, Bill's passing will be mourned by his family, friends, and colleagues throughout Dutchess County, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the Dutchess County Legislature, on behalf of all the people of Dutchess County, does hereby extend its deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the family and friends of the late William J. O'Neill, and be it further RESOLVED, that the meeting of the Dutchess County Legislature be adjourned in memory of the late William J. O'Neill. STATE OF NEW YORK This is to certify that I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Dutchess, have compared the foregoing resolution with the original resolution now on file in the offer of said clerk, and which was adopred by said legislaure on the 15% day of July 2024, and that the same is a true and corfect transcript of said original resolution and of che whole cherect. IN WITNESS WIERROR, & have herconco set my hand and seal of said legislature this 15% Kigalager