Alma P. O'Loughlin

May 7, 2022

Alma (Parsons) O’Loughlin, 96, beloved wife of the late James J. O’Loughlin, Jr. passed away peacefully at home on May 7, 2022. Born in Hartford on November 26, 1925 to Carl Parsons and Alma (Whetstone) Parsons, Alma graduated from Wethersfield High School in 1943 and attended Vesper George School of Art in Boston. She returned to Hartford, married in 1947, had three children and moved to Bloomfield in 1956, where she was a Communicant of Sacred Heart Church. Alma retired in 1990 from the Bloomfield Public Schools Administrative Offices where she worked as secretary in the Food Services Department for 27 years. In recent years, Alma proudly served as Resident Ambassador at Brookdale West Hartford where she had been residing since 2016. Growing up, Alma enjoyed participating in sports of all kinds, especially tennis, swimming, diving, basketball, softball and horseback riding. She was artistic and always creatively personalized her greeting cards to others. Alma was a skilled seamstress, avid reader and enjoyed the outdoors, working in her yard and collecting sea glass at her summer home at Black Point in East Lyme. She also followed sports on television, especially tennis, the UConn Women’s and Men’s Basketball teams, and the Boston Red Sox. Her greatest joy was being actively involved with her family and watching it grow. We will forever miss her cheerfulness, calming presence and unconditional love. Alma is survived by her daughters, Laurene Evans and husband Tony of East Granby; Kerry McCarthy of Westbrook; granddaughters Katherine Evans and husband Matthew Chmielewski of Simsbury and Bethany Gagne and husband Eric of West Hartford; her six great-grandchildren, Emma, Michael, Alice and Clara Chmielewski and Molly and Theo Gagne; and her sister Barbara O’Keefe of Wethersfield. In addition to her husband, Alma was pre-deceased by her son James J. O’Loughlin III, mother Estelle Inch and sister Patricia Dennison. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church, 26 Wintonbury Avenue, Bloomfield on Wednesday, May 11 at 11:00 a.m., preceded by a visitation hour at 10:00 a.m. at the church. Burial will follow in Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery. Memorial donations in Alma’s memory may be made to Prosser Library, 1 Tunxis Avenue, Bloomfield, CT 06002. Online messages of sympathy and remembrance may be made at www.molloyfuneralhome.com