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Joseph Augustine (Dennis) Shea[1]

Male 1918 - 1995  (76 years)


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  • Name Joseph Augustine (Dennis) Shea 
    • Name in baptismal record is Dennis Joseph, but later Joseph Augustine.
    Born 2 Jul 1918  Cambridge, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 23 May 1995  Hyannis, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Buried 26 May 1995  Mosswood Cemetery, Barnstable, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12125  Smithwick Family Tree
    Last Modified 1 Jan 2026 

    Father Patrick D. Shea,   b. 15 Jun 1891, Killeen, Castlecove, Kilcrohane Parish, Co. Kerry, IE Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1962, Cambridge, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Mother Hanora Agnes Moriarty,   b. Abt 1893,   d. Abt 1982  (Age 89 years) 
    Family ID F3876  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rita Grace Babson,   b. 22 Oct 1918, Cambridge, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Nov 2015, Sanford, ME, US Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years) 
    Married 18 Aug 1945  Cambridge, MA, US Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
    Last Modified 1 Jan 2026 
    Family ID F3878  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S957] Obituary - Joseph Augustine Shea, (Boston Globe).
      Joseph A. Shea, 76 Retired sociology professor A funeral mass will be said today for Joseph A. Shea of Osterville, a retired professor of sociology at Worcester State College, who died Tuesday in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. He was 76. Mr. Shea was born in Cambridge. He graduated from Boston College, and earned a master's degree at Harvard University and a doctorate in educational sociology at Catholic University in Washington. He was a professor at Worcester State College for 30 years until his retirement in 1983. He leaves his wife, Rita G. (Babson); a son, Kevin J. of Gardner; a daughter, Maureen R. Viau of Yarmouth; a sister, Mary T. Goulart of Cambridge; and three grandchildren. The funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of Assumption Church in Osterville. Burial is in Mosswood Cemetery in Cotuit.

    2. [S903] Massachusetts, U.S., Boston Archdiocese Roman Catholic Sacramental Records, 1789-1920, (Ancestry), https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61585/records/2709243.

    3. [S348] Massachusetts, Death Index, 1970-2003, (ancestry.com), https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7457/records/1406784.