Update: On Sunday, November 2, Mayor Menino will lie in state at Faneuil Hall, open to the public, beginning at 10 a.m.

His funeral mass (click here for map details of Mayor Menino’s final ride) will take place on Monday, November 3, at Most Precious Blood Parish in his native Hyde Park. This will be closed to the public.

Update: Cards addressed to the Menino family should be sent to Mayor Menino’s office at Boston University, 75 Bay State Road. “In lieu of flowers,” the family has asked that donations be made to the Thomas M. Menino Fund for Boston. Donations, according to a message on TomMenino.org, will help fund programs the former mayor “embraced, and that helped so many.”

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Update: On Monday, a funeral procession, “Mayor Menino’s Final Ride Home,” will stretch from Faneuil Hall to Most Precious Blood Parish in Hyde Park, passing a long list of landmarks with ties to Menino’s life and work in Boston. Here’s a list, via TomMenino.org.

  • Faneuil Hall
  • Boston City Hall
  • The Parkman House
  • Boston University/Kenmore Square
  • Fenway park
  • Dudley Square
  • Grove Hall
  • Franklin Park
  • Bowdoin and Geneva
  • Mattapan Library
  • Roslindale Square
  • Most Precious Blood

Earlier: Funeral arrangements for Mayor Tom Menino, who died Thursday morning at the age of 71, will be announced shortly on TomMenino.org.

Currently the website features a banner headline which notes Menino’s lifespan, from 1942-2014. A photograph of Boston’s longest serving mayor is displayed front and center, below this iconic quote: “I will be very proud if I have changed our city in some ways that last.”

City Hall has told BostInno the site, TomMenino.org, will be updated with funeral information soon.

Mayor Menino died of cancer at 9 a.m. this morning. His wife, Angela, close friends and family were by his side.

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Last March, the former mayor announced he had started undergoing chemotherapy treatment for liver cancer, which had spread to lymph nodes. On October 23, Menino announced in a statement he was stopping treatment and canceling a book tour for his memoir, Mayors for a New America, in order to spend more time with his family.

The following statement on Menino’s death has been posted on the site:

At just after 9:00 a.m. this morning the Honorable Thomas M. Menino passed into eternal rest after a courageous battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his devoted wife Angela, loving family, and friends. Mayor Menino, the longest serving Mayor of the City of Boston, led our city through a transformation of neighborhood resurgence and historic growth — leaving the job he loved, serving the city and people he loved this past January. We ask that you respect the families’ privacy during this time.

BostInno will update this post as soon as the information is made available.


Photo via City of Boston Mayor’s Office/Don Harney