G. Frank Farrell

Garrett Francis Farrell G. Frank, born in Hartford on December 3, 1904, the son of Garrett M. Farrell and Anne Byrne Farrell who emigrated from County Westmeath and County Mayo in Ireland. He graduated from Hartford Public High School, the College of the Holy Cross, and the Hartford College of Law now the University of Connecticut Law School. Upon graduation from college in 1925, he went to work for the Travelers Insurance Company at the age of 20 and forty-six years later, he retired from Travelers as an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. He played baseball at Hartford High and at Holy Cross while it was competing for national championships. He also played semi-pro baseball in the Middlesex County League, the Twilight League, and for the Savitt Gems with his brother Jigger. He served in the Army Air Corps for three years during World War II, stationed in India as an air traffic controller. He was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Theater Campaign Ribbon, a Distinguished Unit Badge, and a Good Conduct Medal. He retired in 1969 and enjoyed many years of golf, shooting his age twice, at 74 and 76. He was married for 52 years to Agnes Cooney Farrell who died in 1998. He lived most of his life in Hartford, then Old Saybrook for 15 years, and later lived in Wallingford, West Hartford, New Haven, and Madison. He is survived by his six children: Margaret Farrell O?Keefe of West Hartford, Frank Farrell of White Plains, NY, Mary Farrell and her husband Daniel Sullivan of Madison, Robert Farrell and his wife Mary-Jean McGarrity of New Haven, Kathleen Farrell and her husband Michael Moran of Newton, MA, and Stephen Farrell and his wife Susan of Wallingford. He also leaves seventeen grandchildren: Meghan O?Keefe, Garrett O?Keefe and his wife Kirstin, Kathleen O?Keefe Wiggenhauser and her husband Peter, Sarah O?Keefe, Kaitlin and Stephen Rahl, Aileen, Maureen, and Deirdre Farrell, Conor, Genevieve, Joseph, and Courtney Moran, Garrett, Dylan, Caitlin, and Tagan Farrell and his two great-grandchildren: Emily O?Keefe and Graham Wiggenhauser. He was predeceased by his brothers James, Thomas, and Edward Farrell, and his sisters, Mary Ladish, Anne Fish, and Helen Farrell, and by two grandchildren, Maura and Garrett Farrell. Funeral Services will be on Wednesday July 19 at 10:00 a.m. in the Church of St. Timothy, 1116 N. Main St. West Hartford. Burial will follow in Mount St. Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield. Friends may call from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. TODAY at the Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave., West Hartford. Donations in his memory may be made to Tabor House, c/o Sister Marjorie Fish, 27 Park Rd., West Hartford, CT 06119

G. Frank Farrell

December 3, 1904 - July 16, 2006