Agawam - Brian Joseph Molloy, 67, of Joey Drive passed away July 7, 2026, at Mercy Medical Center.

He was born April 11, 1959 in Houston, TX to the late Brigid (née Richardson) and John Molloy of Dublin, Ireland. Brian spent much of his childhood in and around Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he and his siblings were raised among cousins and snowmobiles before moving to West Springfield, Massachusetts. He made many of his earliest, best, and longest-standing friendships at Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic School. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1977, where he met the love of his life and wife of 25 years, Joanie Nugent. He played football, she was on the cheerleading team, and they remained close with their school friends throughout their lives.

After studying at Framingham State on a football scholarship and working as a bartender at The Bud in Holyoke, Brian and Joanie moved to New Jersey where they lived on the shore and learned to sail a 30-foot sailboat named “The Moleson” with their friends. Brian’s flourishing career in Operations and Sales brought them to Southern California, where he developed business and plant care skills for his long career in a field that he loved.

Brain was adventurous, athletic, curious, and made friends everywhere he went. He would surf before work, ride his bike 200 miles on the weekends, finish the Los Angeles marathon, and always had a book on him. After the birth of his daughters, Shea and Quinn, the family moved back to New England to live in first Massachusetts, then Connecticut, and finally New Hampshire, where they welcomed their youngest daughter, Rylie in 1996. He was a dedicated father who read to his children every night when they were young.

In New Hampshire, Brian started his own successful business Cityscapes, specializing in institutional properties such as The New England Medical Center and Simon Malls. He was proud of his ability to provide jobs for others and build beautiful, long-standing landscapes. While starting up his business, he moved his family into a previously abandoned 125-year old historic farmhouse that he fixed himself using books he checked out from the library. The house, which would have been demolished, still stands today in Salem, NH.

Moving back to Western Massachusetts in 2012, he had a robust social life and many friends who he regularly met for trivia at The Still, Murphy’s, and the Riverboat — with Rylie as his perpetual partner-in-crime. He loved to debate big ideas and always had a lot to say, but was never deterred by his increasingly complicated health issues nor the arthritis that he lived with for more than 40 years. An adventurer throughout his life, Brian travelled to Caribbean islands with Joanie in their younger years, Ireland with his father, New Orleans (alone, by train, on prosthetic legs), and later to Turkey for medical services with his daughter Shea. He had recently, to the dismay of his children, bought a sailboat. His life is proof that it is never too late to change your course, improve yourself, see the world, or to do difficult things.

Brian will be missed forever by his daughters, Rylie, Quinn, and Shea Molloy, his sister Linda Molloy, his nieces, nephews, and many beloved friends. He was predeceased by his wife, Joan Nugent, his brothers Shawn and Michael, his parents, and his brother-in-law David Anderson. May the road rise up to meet him.

Calling hours will be held Friday, July 24 from 4-6pm at the Toomey Funeral Home in West Springfield.

In lieu of flowers, please consider contributions in memoriam: https://brian-molloy.cheddarup.com