- Date Of Birth: June 16, 1952
- Date Of Death: July 24, 2019
- State: Connecticut
Brendan “Homer” Cornelius McCarthy, age 67, beloved husband and “luvbug” of Kathy McCarthy (née Leonard) passed away peacefully on July 24, 2019, at Bridgeport Hospital surrounded by his wife, children, siblings, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. He was born in Bridgeport, CT to the late James and Mary McCarthy, and was predeceased by his sister, Mary “Mimi” McCarthy, a Sister of Mercy, and Christopher McCarthy, his nephew. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, where he met “his Katie.” Brendan married Kathy on June 21, 1975, in Mobile, where they briefly lived before relocating to Brendan’s hometown of Bridgeport. Brendan and Kathy built a life together in Bridgeport, raising four children in the Black Rock neighborhood, where Brendan coached Little League baseball and softball for sixteen years, mentoring hundreds of kids from Black Rock, including all four of his own children. A fixture in his local community, Brendan was thought of as a “renaissance man.” Despite holding a successful career as a salesman at Hilti Manufacturing and then Heim Bearing, Brendan left an office job to become a full-time teacher. He taught in the Bridgeport public school system as a Special Education teacher, bringing his zest and passion for life to every subject he taught, filling his classrooms with his own materials and designing interactive lesson plans to accommodate the unique learning styles of special needs children. Eventually Brendan transitioned from being an educator to managing operations of a pizzeria owned by his son, Marty.
