William Bryan Devlin, Sr.
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1940 - 2026
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL
Monday, May 4 10:45 AM St. Catherine of Sienna R.C. Church 33 New Hyde Park Road, Franklin Square, NY
INTERMENT
Holy Cross Cemetery 3620 Tilden Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
My dad had a hard life. As a boy, he was shuffled from one foster home to another. After an accident, he spent a year in a hospital bed. He started working to support himself before he was even a teenager.
That kind of life could have made him a hard, bitter man — and if you judged him only by appearance, you might have thought it did. He was impassive, taciturn, hard-looking, and imposing. But Pa was a textbook example of why you should never judge a book by its cover.
He may have looked gruff, but that was only a veneer hiding his goodness and generosity. He said little, but he did so much — not for himself,…