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Widow of former state trooper urges lawmakers to approve surviving-spouse retirement allowance

3230555 · May 7, 2025
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Felicia O'Connor, widow of former Massachusetts State Police Sergeant John (Jack) O'Connor, testified May 7 in support of H.2886 seeking a surviving-spouse retirement allowance for service-connected disability stemming from injuries sustained decades earlier.

Felicia O'Connor told the Joint Committee on Public Service on May 7 that she is petitioning for a surviving-spouse retirement allowance under House Bill 2 886 after her husband, former Massachusetts State Police Sergeant John "Jack" O'Connor, developed diabetes and later died following injuries sustained in the line of duty.

O'Connor described her husband’s long medical history: he was shot while executing a search warrant in 1981, developed…

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