{"id":3057,"date":"2020-02-26T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:28:33","slug":"tara-obrien-mcnally-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2020\/02\/26\/tara-obrien-mcnally-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara O&#8217;Brien-McNally &#8217;78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3058 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-193x250.jpg 193w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTara A. O&#8217;Brien-McNally, of Rockland, MA, died on February 20, 2020. Tara was born in Boston, daughter of the late Edward and Ann (Lewonis) O&#8217;Brien. She was raised and educated in Easthampton, MA graduating from the Williston Northampton School. Tara earned her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from Providence College and a Masters\u00a0in Business Administration from The University College of Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>A loving mother, raising three children and caring for her sick parents all in the same house. A dedicated and compassionate employee of the Commonwealth. A friend to everyone, someone who&#8217;d ask a complete stranger if they were okay. Tara had a fiery spirit and sought to spread good feeling, the intensity of which was matched only by her love for her husband, her children, and the large family of friends she had.<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3059 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now-193x250.jpg 193w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2020\/02\/tara-now.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tara is survived by her husband John, her three children Pearse, Saoirse, and Ronan; her three sisters and one brother; and three nieces and two nephews.<\/p>\n<p>The O&#8217;Brien-McNally family welcomes friends and loved ones to celebrate Tara&#8217;s life at the Magoun-Biggins Funeral Home on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held at The Holy Family Church in Rockland on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. Services will be followed by cremation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara A. O&#8217;Brien-McNally, of Rockland, MA, died on February 20, 2020. Tara was born in Boston, daughter of the late Edward and Ann (Lewonis) O&#8217;Brien. She was raised and educated in Easthampton, MA graduating from the Williston Northampton School. Tara earned her Bachelor&#8217;s degree from Providence College and a Masters\u00a0in Business Administration from The University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2020\/02\/26\/tara-obrien-mcnally-78\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tara O&#8217;Brien-McNally &#8217;78<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[169,751,283],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","tag-class-of-1978","tag-tara-obrien-mcnally","tag-williston-northampton-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}