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Obituary Notice

Helen Ingaborg Sherman

 

Helen Ingaborg Sherman (Pearson),  89, a sales clerk for Longs Jewelers, Boston, where she worked for  years, died Thursday, October 4, 2007 at the Melrose Wakefield Hospital.  Helen was born and raised in W. Roxbury.  After high school, she began working for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company in Boston.   She married her sweetheart, Sumner Sherman before the start of WWII.  While he was in the service, they had lived in Texas, San  Diego, and Florida.  After the end of the war, the two returned to Malden where they settled down to raise their family.    Helen soon took a part time position at Long’s Jewelers in Boston, where she worked for many years.   Helen and her husband Sumner became members of the First Baptist Church of Malden, and was very active within the church.  She also was a volunteer for many years with the American Red Cross, assisting with their many blood drives and flu shots clinics.

She is survived by her sons, Stanley G. Sherman  of Malden, and Gordon R. Sherman  of CT,  and  her brother, Robert Pearson  of Westwood.

She was preceded in death by her husband Sumner Sherman, and her parents, Victor and Josephine (Gothenberg) Pearson.     

Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 11:00 A.M. at Weir MacCuish Funeral Home, 144 Salem Street, Malden. Rev. Martha A. Dominy of First Baptist will be officiating.  Burial will be private.

 

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