Preceded in death by his mother, Alice O’Leary, his grandmother, Laura Fullen O’Leary and grandfather, Daniel Patrick O’Leary; his brother Bill Miller and niece Katie; his aunts Helen, Teresa, Patricia, and Loretta O’Leary; and his uncles Paul and Jack O’Leary.
He leaves behind his wife of 56 years, Margaret O’Leary; his two sons; Michael O’Leary and his wife Angie and grandson Conor; and Daniel O’Leary and granddaughter Katie; his niece Stacy Crossley, and her two daughters, Emma and Samantha Crossley; his sister, Mary LaFond and her husband Maynard and his many nieces and nephews and their families; his sister-in-law Joan Crossley; his cousin Mary Virginia, and the Putnam family.
Raised in Billings and Great Falls, Montana, Jim joined the Navy when he turned 18, and landed in San Diego, California, where he attended the Catholic University, the University of San Diego, where he originally intended to be a teacher. When he discovered football and played for the University as a linebacker and center, that changed his mind. In his senior year, USD dropped football from their schedule, and he transferred to Tulsa University, where he played for Glenn Dobbs. Selected to play pro football for the Houston Oilers, he was injured in pre-season, and decided to head for San Francisco to seek his fortune.
To his good fortune, he apprenticed to be an Ironworker and for the next 30 years worked as a structural Ironworker on various San Francisco buildings, including the Embaracdero One and Two; the Marriott Hotel, the downtown Library, the Hyatt Regency, the Trans-American Pyramid, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Oakland Bay Bridge, the Oakland Court House, and hundreds of high-rise buildings in the Bay Area. Also served on the board of his union, Ironworkers Local 377 for over 20 years. He finished his career at the Stanford Linear Excelerator in Santa Clara, Calif.
During this time Jim coached PAL Football, the Mates and Mariner teams in the sunset district of San Francisco, in addition to 50 years of remodeling an old San Francisco home built in 1926. He loved reading, woodworking (making a complete bedroom set); stain glass (made many intricate stained glass windows) and great conversation!
In 2022, he moved to Canton, Texas and had a new house built next to his sister-In-law, and near his son Michael, and niece Stacy.
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