1925
Michael
2020
Michael J. Twomey
September 28, 1925 — August 4, 2020
Michael was born September 28, 1925 on the lower east side of Manhattan, grew up in Queens, and attended Queens College. He pitched for the baseball team, was quarterback on the football team, and, as basketball co-captain, named the team The Bobcats for his love, Barbara (Bobbie) Moore, and her passion for felines.
On Oct. 8, 1949, Barbara, brought up Baptist, and Mike, raised Catholic, were married at St. John's Episcopal Church, much to their parents' chagrin, in Flushing, Queens.
Michael's career with American International Underwriters took Barbara and him all around the world, satisfying his dream to see and be involved in it all. At work, he combined punctilious preparation with improvisation and a deep reading of people. He hired those whose thinking was capacious, nuanced, and flexible, not necessarily the ones with the impressive degrees. And when he saw a secretary doing much of her boss' job, he made her an agent herself.
He was a member of his church vestry, sat on the school board, played Easter Bunny in a big bunny suit, and, in the evening, he spelled out in song from the front porch, " E-A-G-L-R-M-S-T-U!!", letting his daughter, Celia, know to come inside for dinner.
At retirement, for fifteen years the Twomeys spent half the year in Dornoch, in northern Scotland. O, they enjoyed that golf course and their travels around the British Isles with visiting friends and family. Then, in 2000, they returned home to NY to live their last years with the old friends from high school and college and those early work years, who had remained close all their lives.
When they got older still and less physically hardy, they moved to Williamstown, MA, in 2009 to be near their daughter, moving in with her in 2015. Mike found a second family at the kidney dialysis unit at SVMC in Bennington, VT, where he gratefully went 3 times/week for ten years, enjoying the exquisite skill and tremendous heart and friendship of the team there. Many blessings on their heads.
Barbara died in 2016, and Michael kept on, missing her deeply, but still enjoying life in a smaller, quieter way. He was sick for only a short time before he passed away.
Michael is survived by his daughter, Celia Twomey, currently of Williamstown and many loving nieces and nephews.
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