Dec. 24, 1951 – June 18, 2024

Gregory Paul Sheehy, 72, died peacefully at home in La Crescenta a few months after a diagnosis of liver cancer. Greg was the beloved husband to Alice (Lissy) Ziesing, loving father to Edward and Kathleen Sheehy, favorite youngest brother to Maureen Sheehy and John Sheehy. He was one of many Sheehy family cousins who laughed, worked and played together throughout their formative lives.

Greg was born to John Francis and Grace Kenmir Sheehy and raised in the City of South Gate with many lifelong friends from that community. He graduated from Pius X High School in 1970, UCLA with a major in history in 1975 after also attending Loyola Marymount University and San Francisco State University on his academic and cultural adventures.

Post grad, Greg studied architecture at Los Angeles City College and apprenticed with his cousin architect Patrick Evan Sheehy in Palm Desert. 

Greg and Lissy met at Gensler Los Angeles, then in Century City and married in 1988. They raised Ed and Kathleen and lived ever after in the La Crescenta house they designed and built in 1996.

Greg worked for many years with Dan Dworsky and other esteemed colleagues at Dworsky Associates. After a few years at other firms, he opened his own practice, Sheehy Consulting, in 2001. Greg enjoyed “work from home” long before COVID, providing rides to kids, and shopping for and preparing family meals. He loved his home, Sheehy and Ziesing families, his friends, Dodgers, Bruins, PBS, golf, newspapers, Rogers and Hammerstein, stories of characters and good times.

Close friends and family gathered to remember Greg at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club in early July. 

For those who wish to honor his kindness, gratitude and good humor, his family invites you to contribute to Planned Parenthood, The Salvation Army or The Midnight Mission.