countyDutchess County Legislature
2024139
CONDOLENCE: WILLIAM J. O'NEILL
- Introduced
- July 14, 2024
- Latest action
- July 14, 2024
- Status
- ADOPTED
- District coverage
- scope: countywide
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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%
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