Lillian (Kehoe) Capone

Lillian (Kehoe) Capone, of Quincy, died peacefully surrounded by her loved ones on Monday, March 30, 2026, four days shy of her 101st birthday.

The second-oldest of 11 children, Lillian was born in Revere, Massachusetts on April 4, 1925.

Lillian had a passion for the local dances, which is where she met and fell in love with Michael Capone. They married on June 14, 1952 and went on to welcome seven children. They were married for nearly 40 years until Michael’s death in 1992.

To Lillian, her world revolved around the Wollaston home into which she moved with her husband Michael in 1958 and where they raised their five daughters and two sons.

From those nights when she would sit at the kitchen table, likely drinking tea and doing crossword puzzles, to those holiday feasts that saw more people jammed into tighter quarters than clowns in a circus car, to those warm spring and summer days decades later when she would watch children at play behind Wollaston School, nearly all of Lillian’s memories were invested in her home.

Her interests involved Bingo games and activities at the Sons of Italy, where her late husband was a former President and Lillian was a long-time member of their Women’s Lodge. For several years Lillian taught CCD at St. Ann’s in Quincy.

The simple pleasures in life meant the most to her. Maybe some crochet, perhaps a Red Sox or Patriots game on television. To help celebrate her 80th birthday, Lillian attended her first Red Sox game at Fenway Park and she was able to watch her beloved Red Sox live.

Once you had her spaghetti sauce, ate her eggplant parmesan or savored her meatballs and stuffed mushrooms you assumed she was Italian. But Lillian was big parts Irish, English, Scottish and French-Canadian.

Lillian is survived by her children: Marie Mysiuk of Gainesville, FL, Florence Capone of Gainesville, FL, Christine Finnigan and her husband Stephen of Hanover, MA, Jeanne Capone McCabe and her husband Jim of Milton, MA, John Capone of Herndon, VA, Suzanne Capone of Covington, KY, and Michael Capone of Quincy, MA; her daughter-in-law, Maureen Player of Hanover, MA; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; a sister, Marie Cutillo; a sister-in-law, Mary Helen Kehoe; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her loving husband, Michael Capone; parents, James Patrick Kehoe and Emma Florence (Vega) Kehoe; six sisters – Helena Kehoe, Patricia Giordano, Loretta Ristino, Emma Hatfield, Margaret Poirier, and Marilyn Cunio; and three brothers – Francis Kehoe, James Kehoe and Bernard Kehoe.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to greet the family during visiting hours on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 8:30-10 AM at the Alfred D. Thomas Funeral Home, 326 Granite Ave, Milton, MA. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in Lillian’s honor at Saint Agatha Parish Milton at 10:30 AM.

Services conclude with interment in Pine Hill Cemetery, Quincy.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent in Lillian’s name to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at www.cff.org or the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation at www.themmrf.org

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