RAYMOND JAMES O'BRIEN

GONE TO SOON...

Birth:	Dec. 2, 1950 St. Louis City Missouri, USA
Death:	Jun. 24, 2000 Columbia Boone County Missouri, USA
Obituary: Raymond O'Brien Columbia Daily Tribune Story ran on Tuesday, June 27 2000 Raymond J. O'Brien, 49, of Columbia died Saturday, June 24, 2000, at University Hospital. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 28, at Christian Fellowship Church with the Revs. Clay Spencer and Phil Schaefer officiating. Burial will be at Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 27, at Christian Fellowship Church. Arrangements are under the direction of O'Sullivan-Muckle Mortuary in St. Louis. Mr. O'Brien was born Dec. 2, 1950, in St. Louis to Eugene and Margaret O'Brien. In 1984 he married Laurie Phelan in Columbia, and she survives. A graduate of Normandy High School in St. Louis, he worked about 16 years in building maintenance for the University of Missouri-Columbia. Mr. O'Brien was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, serving as Scoutmaster of Troop 68 and unit commissioner of Troop 705. He was a member of the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow. A member of Christian Fellowship Church, he served the church as assistant small group leader. Mr. O'Brien also was president of the Trails West Home Owners Association and was a recipient of University Hospital's employee-of-the-month award. Survivors also include three children, Stephen O'Brien, Sarah O'Brien and Mary O'Brien, all of Columbia; his mother; four sisters, Mary Findall and Florence Bamert, both of Charlotte, N.C., and Margaret Pendino and Ellen O'Sullivan, both of St. Louis; and four brothers, Jack O'Brien and Eugene "Butch" O'Brien, both of St. Louis, Pat O'Brien of Charlotte, N.C., and Tim O'Brien of Cape Cod, Mass. A sister preceded him in death.    Family links:   Parents:   Eugene A O'Brien (____ - 1955)   Margaret M O'Brien (____ - 2004)
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery  Columbia Boone County Missouri, USA