Bissonnette (left) with eighth graders at All Hallows School, Moosup, Connecticut. He'd soon be banished to Putnam, just a few miles up the road.
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Cutting the Cake: 1983
The Bishop of the Las Cruces (New Mexico) Diocese helped “Father Barney” mark his silver anniversary as a priest, and later paid him a small pension because, as he explained, “he was a brother priest.”
CREDIT: Photo courtesy Ruidoso News.
The Entire Deary Clan: 1966
Tommy is in the back row, second from the right; Gene Michael is in the foreground, wearing suspenders.
Photo courtesy of Deary family.
House of God: Date NA
Architecturally and spiritually, St. Mary’s Church cast a shadow over a large part of Putnam.
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A Strange Request: Date NA
To most readers it was cryptic, but to those who'd been altar boys in Moosup and Putnam between 1958 and 1963, the Dearys’ 1993 advertisement hit home.
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The Dreary Family Today: June, 2011
John (left), Gene Michael, and Allen Deary in front of Deary Brothers ice cream stand.
Photo by Chuck Boster.
Tommy Deary’s First Communion: 1955
The Communion had to be held in the Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam, where Tommy Deary was having his tonsils out. It was from the same hospital that he was discharged a few days before he took his life.
