Funeral Mass celebrated on Saturday for former Massachusetts Congressman William Delahunt
ByBoston 25 News Staff
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Funeral Mass celebrated on Saturday for former Massachusetts Congressman William Delahunt
ByBoston 25 News Staff
DORCHESTER, Mass. — The life of former Massachusetts Congressman and Norfolk County District Attorney William Delahunt was celebrated on Saturday during a funeral Mass at Saint Gregory Parish in Dorchester.
Delahunt died on March 30th, in Quincy, after a long illness.
Delahunt served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1997 to 2011, for Massachusetts’s former 10th congressional district. He also was the Norfolk County district attorney from 1975 to 1996 after serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975.
Words of remembrance were offered by his daughter Kara Delahunt Bobrov, Judge Marianne Hinkle, and family friend Timothy Flaherty.
“His greatest gift of all was his enormous capacity to love all of us,” said Flaherty, “Since Bill’s passing, so many people have told me how he touched their lives and I think that’s all that Bill ever wanted - to make our lives a little bit better.”
Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, who served with Delahunt in the U.S. House of Representatives, was among the many local politicians on hand for the service, along with Representative Stephen Lynch, Representative Bill Keating, Representative Jim McGovern, and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and Massachusetts House Speaker Ron Mariano.
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Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Delahunt Death Massachusetts FILE - Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., speaks at Rep.-elect Bill Keating's victory party in Quincy, Mass., on Nov. 2, 2010. Former longtime Massachusetts congressman and district attorney Delahunt, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obam's agenda, has died following an illness. He died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 following a long-term illness, news reports said. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, File) (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP)
Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Delahunt Death Massachusetts FILE - Sen. John Kerry, center, D-Mass., speaks alongside U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, right, D-Mass., during a public hearing before the Joint Committee on Election Laws at the Statehouse in Boston to press lawmakers to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to name an interim replacement to the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy on Sept. 9, 2009. Former longtime Massachusetts congressman and district attorney Delahunt, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obam's agenda, has died following an illness. He died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 following a long-term illness, news reports said. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, File) (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP)
Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Delahunt Death Massachusetts FILE - U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., faces reporters during a news conference in Quincy, Mass., on Feb. 22, 2010. Former longtime Massachusetts congressman and district attorney Delahunt, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obam's agenda, has died following an illness. He died Saturday, March 30, 2024, at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 following a long-term illness, news reports said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) (Steven Senne/AP)
Former Congressman William Delahunt funeral
Delahunt previously served in the Massachusetts State House from 1973 to 1975,
Delahunt was born in Quincy on July 18, 1941. He graduated from Thayer Academy in Braintree, and Middlebury College in Vermont, and got his law degree from the Boston College School of Law in 1967.
