Edward J. Sennett MD

Edward J. Sennett, MD, husband of the late Veronica L. Sennett, and a longtime resident of West Hartford, died Wednesday November 16, 2005 at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center surrounded by his family. Born in Poultney, VT, the son of the late James and Mary Flood Sennett, he was a graduate of Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Green Mountain Jr. College, the University of Vermont, and UVM College of Medicine 1943. He interned at St. Francis Hospital in 1943. Dr. Sennett served in Europe with the US Army Medical Corps during World War II. His residency in Medicine was served at Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital and in Radiology at Mary Fletcher Hospital, both in Burlington, VT and he was a Fellow in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Beginning in 1951 he served as an assistant Radiologist at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, and served as Director of the Department of Radiology from 1954 until his retirement in 1988. Dr. Sennett, a Fellow of the American College of Radiology, was a member of the State, County, and American Medical Associations, the New England Roentgen Ray Society, and the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Sennett enjoyed sports, especially the Red Sox and NY Giants, golf at Wampanoag Country Club where he was a member for over 50 years, summer vacations at Lake St. Catherine in Vermont and winters in Florida after his retirement. He is survived by his children: Maureen Slane and her husband Kevin, Joseph Sennett and his wife Laurel, Thomas Sennett and his wife Beth Ann, Joan Compagna and her husband Robert, and Jean Sennett. His ten grandchildren, Kathleen McDaniel and her husband Capt. G. Patrick McDaniel, Kevin J. Slane, Jr., Kathryn, Stephen, Caroline, William, and Sheila Sennett, Brandon, Susan, and Paul Compagna, two great grandchildren, Sean and Clare McDaniel, and many loving nieces and nephews also survive him. His brothers James F. and William C. Sennett and his sister Mary B. Sennett predeceased him. Funeral services will be Monday Nov. 21st beginning with a procession at 9:30 a.m. from the Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, with the celebration of a mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in the Church of St. Helena, 30 Echo Lane, West Hartford. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery West Hartford. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday from 3-6 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hematology Section/Cancer Care Center, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, 114 Woodland St, Hartford, CT 06105, or "Share the Passion", Holy Family Monastery/Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Rd, West Hartford, CT 06107. Online messages of sympathy and remembrance may be made at www.molloyfuneralhome.com.