Selectmen Accept 'Generous' Gift of $24K, Memorial Monument from Foxborough Resident
Foxborough resident Joan Gallivan presented the town of Foxborough - through the Board of Selectmen - a gift of approximately $24,000 and the Charles James Fox Memorial Monument in memory of her late husband, Vincent.
Shortly before Vincent Gallivan passed away on Dec. 1, 1999, he had written a letter to the Foxboro Jaycees proposing a project to erect a monument in honor of the man the town is named after – Charles James Fox. "[The monument] was a brain child of John Farrington of Summerfield in Cannon Forge but was adopted as a pet project by Vin just before his death," Vincent's wife, Joan Gallivan, wrote in a letter to the Board of Selectmen on July 30. In the year after Gallivan's death, his friends and members of the Jaycees followed through on his "pet project" - fundraising for and erecting a monument of Fox. "Some 13 years ago, long-time Jaycee members and other friends of Vin wanted to do something special for the town in his honor," Joan …
