Ruth E. Sullivan

Ruth E. (Heggie) Sullivan, age 96 years, loving wife, sister and aunt, was called home to God on Saturday, May 25, 2024. She was born April 26, 1928 in Ludlow, Massachusetts. She was one of five children of Esther C. (Grant) Heggie and James Heggie, Sr. Educated in Massachusetts, she worked in a family owned restaurant called the Piggy Wiggy in Westfield, Massachusetts from 1946-56. For 20 years, she worked at Chapman Valve as a radiological x-ray tech and later she worked for Crane Corp. She was an avid gardener and loved flowers. Along with her sister Esther, she enjoyed working annually at the St. Hyacinth Garden parties for her nephew, Father James McCurry, O.F.M. Conv. She was a former member of Holy Name Church, Springfield Massachusetts, where she married Walter J. Sullivan on June 25, 1957. After Walter’s passing in 1993, she moved to Trexlertown, Pennsylvania; living there with her sister Esther until her passing. She then moved in with her niece Judith Burke-Lund. Besides her parents and husband, she was predeceased by her three brothers James Heggie, Jr., William G. Heggie, David A. Heggie and her sister Esther Clara (Heggie) Burke. She is survived by her niece Judith Burke-Lund, RN of Trexlertown, Pennsylvania; grandnephews Christopher M. Lund and James A. Lund; nieces and nephews Sally (Heggie) Copeland of Maine and her children Alexis and Nicholas and Grant W. Heggie of New Hampshire and his children Bill, Jennifer, and Amy, Michelle S. (Heggie) Stoyak of Westfield, Massachusetts and her children Joseph and James, James Heggie III of New Hampshire and his children Paige and Brenna, Michael Heggie of Maryland and his daughter Jennifer, Father James McCurry, O.F.M. Conv. of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Susan (McCurry) Michaud of Ayre, Massachusetts and her son James and several grandnieces, grandnephews and cousins in Ireland, Scotland and England. Visitation for Ruth will be held Wednesday, June 5, from Kozikowski Funeral Home, 565 Front St., Chicopee, with a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Stanislaus Basilica at 10:30 AM. Visitation is Wednesday morning from 9:00-10:15 AM. Burial will be at Island Pond Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1879 Applewood Drive, Orefield PA 18069 or to the Maximillian Kolbe Foundation, c/o Father James McCurry, O.F.M. Conv. at Mater Dolorosa Church and Friary, 71 Maple St. Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040.