- Date Of Birth: March 21, 1927
- Date Of Death: November 2, 2014
- State: Connecticut
SWEENEY, Jane Margaret, the daughter of the late Jeremiah E. and Madeline (Twomey) Sweeney passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. She had been a resident at The Regency Heights of Norwich for the past four years. Miss Sweeney was born in Norwich on March 21, 1929 and lived all of her life in this city. She graduated from St. Patrick School and the Norwich Free Academy, Class of 1946.
After graduating she went to work at American Thermos Bottle Co. working in the clerical pool where her aunt Helen Twomey was the executive secretary to the President. Jane later joined Connecticut Bank and Trust as a teller and worked in several positions and several locations over the next 36 years, retiring in 1991. Jane maintained the family home on Grove Street until after she retired, when she then moved to the Rosewood Manor on Hamilton Avenue to live in a complex built by her first cousin, contractor W. F. Brown. In 2010 Jane moved into Regency Heights and enjoyed the wonderful staff who treated her with respect and excellent care.
Jane was a successful businesswoman who enjoyed both her professional contacts as well as her personal independence which allowed her to summer in Groton Long Point for decades and travel the east coast. She was a lover of cats and dogs and enjoyed watching and feeding local birds. Although Jane remained single she was an important, and much loved member in the families of her three nieces, Marcia Sweeney of South Glastonbury, Maureen Sweeney of Noank and Linda Sweeney Correira, and her husband James Correira and son J. Sweeney Correira of Mystic. Jane was a wonderful Aunt providing support and encouragement through-out their lives and taking pleasure in their accomplishments.
She leaves behind her first cousin Patricia Sweeney Perka Guiney of Groton and her dear friend and cousin-in-law Mary Shea Sweeney of Bozrah, and many cousins. Jane was predeceased by her brother John R. Sweeney and his wife Ann Morrison Sweeney of Wethersfield and Groton Long Point and her niece Lois Sweeney. She recently lost her first cousins Rita Brown Smith, Martha Sweeney Arsenault and Walter Brown all natives of Fitchville/Bozrah.
She was fondly referred to as the family historian and helped coordinate the first Sweeney family reunion which was held in Norwich in 2008 and had 80 cousins from the area ranging in age from 3 months to 90 years old. Jane is a direct descendent of early1852 Irish immigrants to Norwich, the Driscoll’s and Twomey’s from the Schull area, County Cork and the Sweeney and Lynch’s whom emigrated to Lebanon and Fitchville from Cahirciveen, County Kerry.
