THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, April 16, 1964

 

Sydney O'Brien, retired policeman of Jacksonville, passed away at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville Tuesday evening after a long illness. He is a brother-in-law of Sheriff Homer Brooks of Bunnell

Mr. O'Brien served in the police detective department of Jacksonville about 25 years. Following retirement nine years ago, Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien built a home in the Venice Park subdivision or Flagler Beach on Palmetto St. They later sold the home and returned to Jacksonville to engage in the real estate business.

Funeral plans are not complete but tentative plans call for services to be held in Jacksonville. Interment will be at the Shady Rest Cemetery in Holly Hill.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bertie O'Brien of Jacksonville; two sisters, Mrs. Sara Gunn of Mulberry and Mrs. Alice Kidwell of Atlanta, Georgia.