Born in Holyoke, MA, the daughter of a first-generation Irish father and second-generation Scottish mother. Graduated Framingham, MA High School, 1940, after which she enrolled at Framingham Business College to train in the secretarial arts. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, she enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—US Navy) and was assigned to Naval Flight Station, Jacksonville, FL as the the base commander's executive secretary. Quickly attained the rank of Yeoman and Chief Petty Officer. At war's end—having met her future husband while in service—she returned with him to New Jersey where they began their married life together. As a Marine aviator, however, world events, in time, recalled him to active duty, and took both of them to California where he disembarked for the Korean War. Upon that war's conclusion, she, her husband and two sons returned east to Long Island (NY), where he entered commercial aviation while she focused on raising her family—and a daughter soon to come. Once all three approached college age, she resumed secretarial work as an executive assistant at various companies, including Grumman and Republic Aviation. Subsequently transitioned her career to become a successful real estate broker in Huntington and Northport. Only upon her husband's retirement, did she, in turn, elect retirement. Intelligent, intuitive and perspicacious, she was a woman of grace and bountiful wit—a delight to know as a friend, colleague, sage, spouse and mother. Our memory of her is endearing and everlasting.
[FAG contributor: Dale B. #49198352]
Born in Holyoke, MA, the daughter of a first-generation Irish father and second-generation Scottish mother. Graduated Framingham, MA High School, 1940, after which she enrolled at Framingham Business College to train in the secretarial arts. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, she enlisted in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—US Navy) and was assigned to Naval Flight Station, Jacksonville, FL as the the base commander's executive secretary. Quickly attained the rank of Yeoman and Chief Petty Officer. At war's end—having met her future husband while in service—she returned with him to New Jersey where they began their married life together. As a Marine aviator, however, world events, in time, recalled him to active duty, and took both of them to California where he disembarked for the Korean War. Upon that war's conclusion, she, her husband and two sons returned east to Long Island (NY), where he entered commercial aviation while she focused on raising her family—and a daughter soon to come. Once all three approached college age, she resumed secretarial work as an executive assistant at various companies, including Grumman and Republic Aviation. Subsequently transitioned her career to become a successful real estate broker in Huntington and Northport. Only upon her husband's retirement, did she, in turn, elect retirement. Intelligent, intuitive and perspicacious, she was a woman of grace and bountiful wit—a delight to know as a friend, colleague, sage, spouse and mother. Our memory of her is endearing and everlasting.
[FAG contributor: Dale B. #49198352]
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