Chloe Ann O'Neil - WatertownDailyTimes.com
Dec 5, 2018
She was 75 years old. Chloe Ann Rene Tehon was born in Watseka, Illinois in 1943 to Stephen Whittier Tehon and Betty Irene Albright. She shared her father’s keen intellect and compassion and her mother’s tenacity and forthrightness. She married John G. A. O’Neil in April of 1966 at Sacred Heart Church in Cicero, New York. Chloe Ann earned both a bachelors and master’s degree from SUNY Potsdam and taught for decades in the Parishville-Hopkinton Central School. The former New York State Assemblywoman and teacher was a volunteer at Canton-Potsdam Hospital, served on the SUNY Canton College Council and College Foundation Board, and was an active community member and civic leader in St. Lawrence County and across the North Country. She is fondly remembered for her strong advocacy, endless dedication to helping others, creativity, and support for North Country artists. Her quilt-making talents have filled our homes with joy and will continue to keep us warm. Affectionately known as “MomO” by her family and close friends, Chloe Ann is survived by her two children, Beth Ann Rice (Stephen Lavigne), of West Stockholm New York and John A. Stephen O’Neil (Meganne Ross) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee and seven grandchildren: Krisha Ann Elizabeth Rice, Keeley Johanna Rice, Kaleb John “Teddy” Rice, John Ross O’Neil, David Whittier O’Neil, Kathleen Margaret O’Neil, and Hannah Louise O’Neil. Chloe Ann is also survived by her sisters Susan Hane, Rebecca Tehon, Penelope O’Brien, and Candace L. Ardizzone, sister-in-law Myrna E. O’Neil of Ogdensburg, and several nieces and nephews. Chloe Ann was preceded in death by the love of her life, former New York State Assemblyman John G. A. O’Neil, her parents Betty and Stephen Tehon, and sister-in-law, Sr. Janice O’Neil.Friends will be received at the Garner Funeral Home from 2-7:00 pm on Monday, November 19. Funeral services will be h...
Kitty O’Neil, deaf daredevil who became ‘world’s fastest woman,’ dies at 72 - The Seattle Times
Dec 5, 2018
Her mother, a Cherokee homemaker who may have saved her life by immersing Kitty in an ice bath, resisted teaching her sign language and instead showed her how to read lips and form words of her own, placing Kitty’s hands on her throat so she could feel the vibrations of her vocal cords.In the years that followed, Kitty learned the piano and cello, feeling the music through her hands and feet, and trained as a platform diver, winning dozens of competitions. Her coach, Olympic gold medal-winner Sammy Lee, assured reporters she was a shoo-in for the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo. She seemed destined to medal when, in the lead-up to the Olympic trials, she broke her wrist and came down with a case of spinal meningitis.Doctors told her she might never walk again. But within two weeks she was up out of bed, searching for a way to reinvent herself. “I got sick, so I had to start all over again, and I got bored,” she later told the Midco Sports Network, a regional broadcaster based in South Dakota. “I wanted to do something fast. Speed. Motorcycle. Water skiing. Boat. Anything.” So O’Neil, who was 72 when she died Nov. 2 of pneumonia, set about becoming a stunt artist and record-setting daredevil. Amid a battle with cancer that required two sets of operations in her 20s, she raced motorcycles and speed boats, dove off hotel rooftops, leaped from helicopters, set herself on fire, water skied at more than 100 mph and earned the title “world’s fastest woman,” reaching speeds of about 600 mph while piloting a rocket car across a dried lake bed in southeastern Oregon.From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, she stood in for actresses including Lindsay Wagner of “The Bionic Woman,” dangled out of a sixth-story window for an episode of the television detective show “Baretta,” braved rising waters on a sinking jet plane in the movie thriller “Airport ’77,” was immo...
Mrs. Chloe Ann R. O'Neil, 75, of Parishville - WWNY TV 7
Dec 5, 2018
She was 75 years old.Chloe Ann Rene Tehon was born in Watseka, Illinois in 1943 to Stephen Whittier Tehon and Betty Irene Albright. She shared her father’s keen intellect and compassion and her mother’s tenacity and forthrightness. She married John G. A. O’Neil in April of 1966 at Sacred Heart Church in Cicero, New York. Chloe Ann earned both a bachelors and master’s degree from SUNY Potsdam and taught for decades in the Parishville-Hopkinton Central School. The former New York State Assemblywoman and teacher was a volunteer at Canton-Potsdam Hospital, served on the SUNY Canton College Council and College Foundation Board, and was an active community member and civic leader in St. Lawrence County and across the North Country. She is fondly remembered for her strong advocacy, endless dedication to helping others, creativity, and support for North Country artists. Her quilt-making talents have filled our homes with joy and will continue to keep us warm.Affectionately known as “MomO” by her family and close friends, Chloe Ann is survived by her two children, Beth Ann Rice (Stephen Lavigne), of West Stockholm New York and John A. Stephen O’Neil (Meganne Ross) of Oak Ridge, Tennessee and seven grandchildren: Krisha Ann Elizabeth Rice, Keeley Johanna Rice, Kaleb John “Teddy” Rice, John Ross O’Neil, David Whittier O’Neil, Kathleen Margaret O’Neil, and Hannah Louise O’Neil. Chloe Ann is also survived by her sisters Susan Hane, Rebecca Tehon, Penelope O’Brien, and Candace L. Ardizzone, sister-in-law Myrna E. O’Neil of Ogdensburg, and several nieces and nephews. Chloe Ann was preceded in death by the love of her life, former New York State Assemblyman John G. A. O’Neil, her parents Betty and Stephen Tehon, and sister-in-law, Sr. Janice O’Neil.Friends will be received at the Garner Funeral Home from 2-7:00 pm on Monday, November 19. Funeral services will be held at St. Mary&rsquo...
