FRAMINGHAM: Daniel L. McCue, Jr., 94, of Rochester, NY and formerly of Framingham died peacefully Friday August 31, 2012 at his home. He was the beloved husband of 46 years of the late Catharine W. (Weaver) McCue who died in 2000.
Born in Somerville on November 14, 1917 he was the son of the late Daniel L. and Mary (O’Malley) McCue. He attended and graduated from St. Clements High School in Somerville and received an A.B. degree in English from Boston College in 1940 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1974.
A Framingham resident from 1954 until 2007, he was an active communicant of St. George’s Parish in Saxonville, where he was a lay minister of the Eucharist. He moved to Rochester, NY in 2007 to be with his son Daniel L. McCue, III and family.
He retired in 1987 after over forty years of employment as a professor of English Literature at Boston College.
He was a veteran of World War II where he served in the Pacific Theater with the United States Army as an artillery officer. Mr. McCue was an avid and accomplished piano player who enjoyed performing popular music to entertain friends and guests.
He was the father of Caroline (McCue) Gordon and her husband Michael of Woodland Hills, CA; Daniel L. McCue, III and his wife Charlene McPherson of Rochester, NY and Elizabeth (McCue) Haines and her husband John of Bellingham. He was the grandfather of Aaron, Sean, Christopher, David, Patricia, Michael, Jeffrey, Steven and Thomas. Brother of Jeannette Puorro of Los Altos Hills, CA, Joseph McCue of Hampton, NH, Rev. Richard McCue of Exeter, NH, Eugene McCue of Chicopee and the late Mary McQuilkin and the late Arthur McCue.
Visitations will be held on Friday, September 7, 2012 from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the John C. Bryant Funeral Home, 56 Pemberton Road (Off Rte 30), Cochituate Village, Wayland.
His Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 9:00 am at St. George’s Parish, 74 School Street, Framingham.
Interment will follow in the McCue family lot in St. Stephens Cemetery in Framingham.
View Full Information → Daniel L. McCue, Jr. 8/31/2012 Framingham, MA / Wayland, MA