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Marple Newtown Alum Remembered After Death

Richard "Rocky" Gerarghty, 24, died on Nov. 21. The cause of death was suicide.

BROOMALL–Richard "Rocky" Geraghty died on Monday, Nov. 21, at 11:03 p.m. at Rose Tree Park in Upper Providence. The by the Delaware County Medical Examiner Dr. Fredric Hellman.

Geraghty, a 2005 alum and, according to his Facebook page, was a US Marine. According to a tweet on Geraghty's death, he was also a student at .

Since his death, friends and family have shown their condolences in the social media landscape as well as through Twitter.

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Funeral services have not yet been announced for Geraghty.

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