Deacon Joseph P. Cassidy, 88, of Cape May, died Monday, Sept. 19.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Deacon Cassidy graduated from St. Agatha’s Elementary School and St. Michael’s Diocesan High School, both in Brooklyn. He served honorably in the United States Army Air Corps (Air Transport Command) during World War II and the Korean War.
He was formerly employed by the Schaefer Brewing Co., Brooklyn; the Kleenex Corporation in Wisconsin, and he most recently retired from the Foster-Wheeler Corporation in Livingston, where he worked as a corporate cashier and served as treasurer and board member of their credit union, known as the Peachtree Hill Federal Credit Union.
Deacon Cassidy was ordained for the Diocese of Paterson on June 10, 1978. He was incardinated into the Diocese of Camden on July 18, 1988 and assigned to St. John of God Parish in North Cape May. He retired from ministry on Feb. 4, 2004.
He is survived by his wife Margaret (“Peg”) to whom he was married for 66 years.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 10:30am in Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Cape May. Interment followed in the Cape May County Veterans Cemetery. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Cape May Food Closet, c/o First Presbyterian Church of Cape May, 500 Hughes St., Cape May, NJ 08204.
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