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It Was Only a Vacation in Ireland, But It Won Tom Kiley Blue-Eyed Bride_ _ i i i ■ • - - * ....... _Brings Colleen He Wet in 1926 to Mansfield as ? His Bride.WHEN Tom Kiley. Mansfield waterworks secretary, brought his Irish bride to the old Kiley home last Sunday, it was the ending of a chapter in the love story of Tom Kiley, American bachelor, and blue-eyed Mol-lie Mooney, late of Dublin, Ireland; but the beginning of another chapter with the same characters, this time to be known as Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Kiley, 92 Marion avenue, Mansfield.The first chapter began back in 3926 when Tom decided to take a trip to Ireland. His grandparents were born there.When Tom registered at a Dublin hotel, he told the clerk. “Don’t I put me at the fable with a bunch’ of old fogies—I’m supposed to be on a vacation.There was a twinkle in the head waiter’s eye, as he led the American to the place reserved for him—at a table surrounded by the prettiest girls at the hotel.So that was how* he met ’Vfollie Mooney. Molhe. w'ho was horn in a lovely old cottage with a thatched roof, near Dublin, educated at Loreto college, Stephens Green, Dublin, and who was on i a vacation, too. At that time she was a graduate nurse at Meath hospital,Tom thought she was the nicest girl he had ever met. At the end of his vacation, lie asked if he might write to her,Two years later Mollie came to New York to work. They became engaged.Rut a shadow fell across their plans when Tom's mother became seriously ill. Strangely enough, if was his mother’s death whichhastened their marriage. Tom wanted his mother to know and love the girl he was going to marry. He told Mollie about it, and the answer came immediately. “I’ll come and take care of her.” she wrote.She did. And a bond of deep tenderness sprang up between the two women.Before her death, Mrs. Kiley exacted a promise from Tom that he would not postpone his marriage; that he would, in fact, hasten ft.And so they were quietly married in St. Patrick’s cathedral. New York City, Nov. 11, and everyone who knows them is certain the ending will be ‘‘—and so they lived happily ever after.”Kiley has lived In Mansfield his entire life, except for several years spent In New York' City, where he wrote song lyrics for the famous team of Van and Schenk.
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Mansfield News
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Tue, Nov 21, 1933
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