Sad news to post today. Connie Mulligan Welsh, daughter of Kathleen (Riley) Mulligan (1899-1988) passed away this past Wednesday, the 22nd of July.

Connie might have been petite, but her personality and warmth were enormous. You always felt special in her presence.

For years, Connie and her late husband Joe (1921-2003) hosted an annual Mulligan – Riley family cookout at their home in Foxboro. Grandma, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins and 2nd cousins, in-laws, and maybe an outlaw or two, all gathered for a noon to dusk party. Joe would liven up the group with pronouncements punctuated with creative usage of some Anglo-Saxon phrases, until Connie ruled the day with a “we’ll have no more of that” stare.

All who knew Connie will miss her charming ways and lovely manner.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to her daughters, Brenda and Beverly.

Constance M. Welsh
October 18, 1924 – July 22, 2020

Constance Marie (Mulligan) Welsh of Foxborough, MA passed away on July 22, 2020 at home. She was the loving wife of the late Joseph D. Welsh, who predeceased her in 2003.

Born in Pawtucket, RI, she was the daughter of the late William and Kathleen (Riley) Mulligan. She graduated from Foxborough High School in 1942, received her Secretarial Certificate from Pawtucket Business School and was employed at the Foxboro Company. While raising her family, she assisted in the family business, Welsh’s Dairy. After her family was grown, she was employed at Foxboro State Hospital and Wrentham State School in the medical records department.

Of all the places she visited or things she had done in her 95 years, Connie’s greatest enjoyment was being with her family. She is survived by her daughters Brenda Fayed and her husband Toman of Glastonbury, CT, and Beverly Pini and her husband A. Ross Pini, Jr. of North Attleboro. Also, her grandsons: A. Ross Pini III and his wife Meghan of Roslindale, MA, Ryan Fayed and his wife Brianne of West Hartford, CT, and Timothy Fayed of Jamaica Plain, MA, and her great grandsons, Grant and Nolan Fayed.

Also survived by her sisters, Marjorie Pacelli of Franklin and Janet Cushing of Tiburon, CA. She was the sister of the late Wm. Russell Mulligan.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 AM on Tuesday, July 28th in Saint Mary’s Church, 58 Carpenter Street, Foxborough. Burial will follow in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, Foxborough. Relatives and friends are invited to gather at the RJ Ross Funeral Home, 135 South Street, Wrentham Tuesday morning prior to Mass from 9:30-10:30 AM.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Connie’s memory may be made to the Friends of North Attleboro Animal Shelter at www.fnaas.org

An online guestbook may be found at rjrossfuneralhomeinc.com.

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