Leo Regis Roy
1900 - 1989
Leo would go to high school in 1914. Up until 1913 Leo would be going to Warwick High School. In 1913 Warwick split into two municipalities creating West Warwick. Warwick High School was now located in West Warwick.
Those living in Warwick in 1914 would go to high school at the grammar school located in Apponaug. The grammar school included high school until a fire destroyed it in 1924.
But Leo did not go the high school at the grammar school. He mentioned in a 1955 newspaper article that he went to high school in Cranston.
Cranston High School from the 1916 yearbook
The Roy family lived in the Norwood section of Warwick. This area is located at the northern tip of Warwick on the border with Cranston. Since Warwick did not have a high school at this time, the Warwick School Committee paid tuition to allow students to attend high school in Cranston to try to ease the overcrowding at the Apponaug grammar school.
From the 1940 United States Federal Census, Leo’s highest level of education was first year of high school. He never graduated from high school.
Leo Roy
Leo Roy
Leo Roy and his wife Bertha
Leo Roy
Leo Roy
Leo, his second wife Eleanor, his sister Dora, and Johnny, his brother Alfred and wife Alberta's adopted son. After her husband died, Alberta did not remarry, so who is Uncle Freddie mentioned on the back of the photo?
Back of image
Below is Leo's World War I draft registration. He was never called to fight in the war.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8WQ-4Q6 : 25 August 2019), Leo Ragis Roy, 1917-1918.
The Providence Sunday Journal
February 26, 1989
Leo R. Roy
Leo R. Roy, 88, of Post Road, a building contractor until retiring 20 years ago, died yesterday at home. He was the husband of Eleanor A. (Howard) Roy.
Born in Warwick, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Roy.
Mr. Roy was active in politics, and was a former member of the Third Ward Democratic Committee, the Warwick Democratic City Committee and the Democratic State Committee. He was the Warwick highway commissioner in the early 1930s during the administration of former Mayor John O'Brien, and served as a member of the original Warwick Sewer Commission.
Besides his wife he leaves four sons, Leo R. Roy Jr. of North Kingstown, Alfred P. Roy of Scituate, Emil E., and Edward C. Roy, both of Warwick; a daughter, Marie Vasconcellos of Riverdale, N.J.; a brother, Napoleon Roy of Bradenton, Fla.; 26 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m. from the Peter J. Barrett Funeral Home, 1328 Warwick Ave., with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 at St. Gregory the Great Church, Cowesett Road. Burial will be in St. Ann's Cemetery, Cranston.
St. Ann's Cemetery
73 Church Street
Cranston, RI 02920
Section 11, Lot 146
11-146
ROY
HOWARD
1906 HILTON W. HOWARD 1979
1908 HIS WIFE ANNA A. PECO 1998
1929 ELEANOR A. HOWARD
WIFE OF
1900 LEO ROY 1989
HIS WIFE
1906 BERTHA 1951
1904 LOUIS A. ROY 1968
1936 MONICA ROY LAMOUREUX 1985
Eleanor died in 2015. That year is not on the tombstone.
Louis was Leo's brother and Monica was Leo and Bertha's daughter.