The Pasadena resident spent much of his life giving to scholarships for disadvantaged young people and supporting Catholic schools.
After college, he joined the family’s construction business, working on dam and tunnel projects throughout the West and Pacific Northwest.
But even as his company — based in Walnut — grew, Shea was a philanthropist at heart. He and his wife, Dorothy, gave tens of thousands in scholarships and funded more than 1,000 renovations at more than 500 campuses in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and outside California too, according to an announcement of his death.
In that time, Connolly said, that charity — of both John and Dorothy Shea — spread beyond the L.A. Archdiocese. The couple had always been givers, Shea Jr. said, but during a walk in the mid-1980s, reflecting on the success they’d enjoyed, he and his wife decided they would take their giving to a new level — funding scholarships and improving schools.
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