PETER P. DELOREY OF TRINITY, FL FORMERLY OF STOUGHTON, MA & BUZZARDS BAY, MA, PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AT HOME (IN HOSPICE CARE) ON JULY 24, 2024 WITH HIS FAMILY BY HIS SIDE.
PETER WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 25, 1949 IN CHARLESTOWN, MA, THE SON OF LAWRENCE & AGNES (WHITNEY) DELOREY. HE MARRIED MARGARET (PEGGY) DELOREY JUNE 12, 1971.
THE FAMILY ALONG WITH MANY FRIENDS, HAS LOST A WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING. PETER WAS KNOWN FOR HIS WARM SMILE, KIND, GENTLE, FRIENDLY, PERSONALITY. HIS SENSE OF HUMOR AND LOVE OF LIFE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW & LOVED HIM.
PETER RETIRED IN OCTOBER OF 2013 AS A SENIOR CARPENTER AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE (WHOI) IN FALMOUTH, MA WHERE HE ENJOYED MANY HAPPY YEARS.
HE WAS A NAVY (SEABEES) VETERAN WHO SERVED IN THE VIET NAM WAR 1970-1971 AFTER WHICH HE MARRIED HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART (PEGGY) THEY ENJOYED 53 YEARS TOGETHER.
THOSE WHO WILL MISS PETE THE MOST ARE HIS LOVING WIFE, SONS-JAMES DELOREY OF BOCA RATON, FL, CHAD DELOREY & PARTNER MAGGIE PAPPAS OF PLYMOUTH, MA, BROTHER-ROBERT DELOREY, SISTER IN LAWS- BERTIE DELOREY, ROSE FOULSHAM & ELIZABETH FULLERTON, CHRISTINE DELOREY, BROTHER IN LAWS- ROBERT ROCHA, MICHAEL FULLERTON, BERNARD FERNANDES & MANY NIECES, NEWPHEWS & COUSINS AND A HOST OF FRIENDS THAT HE MADE AT HERITAGE SPRINGS.
A CELEBRATION OF LIFE WILL BE HELD AT HERITAGE SPRINGS ON THURSDAY AUG. 22, 2024 FROM 12:30 -3:30.
A FUNERAL MASS WILL BE HELD AT ST. JAMES CHURCH, STOUGHTON, MA ON SAT. SEPT. 14, 2024 AT 10:30 FOLLOWED BY INTERNMENT AT KNOLLWOOD MEMORIAL PARK, CANTON, MA 02020.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS IN PETER’S MEMORY MAY BE MADE TO MOFFIT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION, MBC FOUND, 12902 MAGNOLIA DRIVE, TAMPA, FL 33612
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