Enjoyed summers at Popponesset and Sebago Lake

Published in the August 8, 2018 edition

WAKEFIELD — Doris T. O’Neil, 87, of Wakefield, formerly of Lynnfield and Everett, died Monday, July 30, 2018 at the Brightview Senior Living Center in Wakefield.

Born in Everett on Sept. 3, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Bridget (Southwell) Seward.

Mrs. O’Neil was raised in Everett and was a graduate of Immaculate Conception High School in Revere, Class of 1948. She had worked for many years as a secretary at American Mutual Insurance in Wakefield. She began her family in Everett before making the family home in Lynnfield in 1974. She also spent her summers at her Cape house in the Popponesset area of Mashpee; as well as enjoying time at Sebago Lake in Maine. Above all, Mrs. O’Neil cherished her role as big sister, mother, and grandmother and most enjoyed time spent with her family.

She was the beloved wife of the late Attorney Richard J. O’Neil. She was the loving mother of Richard J. O’Neil, Jr. and his wife Elizabeth of Lynnfield; Barbara J. O’Neil-Smith and her late husband David B. Smith of North Reading; Patricia M. Messer and her husband Gregory P. of Charlestown; Eileen T. O’Neil and her husband Mark S. Butler of Boston; Susan E. Forrest and her husband George of Kennebunk, Maine; and David E. O’Neil and his wife Susanne of Quincy, and the late Lori A. Ouellette and Stephen O’Neil. She was the mother-in-law of Lawrence N. Ouellette of Westford. She was the cherished Nana to 13 grandchildren. She was the sister of Shirley Sullivan, Barbara Kirby, Mary Barker, Alice Porcaro, and the late Lorraine LaVasseur, Margaret Martin, John Seward, William Seward, and Walter Seward. She is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins; as well as many and dear friends in Wakefield, both new and old.

Her funeral was held from the McDonald Funeral Home, 19 Yale Ave., Wakefield, on Thursday, Aug. 2, followed by a funeral Mass in St. Adelaide Church, 708 Lowell St., Peabody. Interment will take place in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Peabody. Visitation for relatives and friends at the funeral home was on Wednesday, Aug. 1.