PROVIDENCE, RI -- A funeral and concelebrated Mass of Christian burial will be held Wednesday morning for Rhode Island's former Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph R. Weisberger, who died Friday at 92.
His son, lawyer J. Robert Weisberger Jr., told The Providence Journal that his father died at Rhode Island Hospital after suffering a heart attack at his East Providence home.
Weisberger's funeral will be held at 8:30 a.m. from the W. Raymond Watson Funeral Home, 350 Willett Ave., East Providence. The Mass will follow at 10 a.m. at St. Brendan Church, Turner Avenue, East Providence. Burial, with military honors, will be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Many judges are expected to attend the services though the state's courts will remain open. Some morning hearings will be postponed.