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Joan Marie Hampton Joan Marie (Overlan) Hampton,
70, died suddenly Thursday, August 14, 2003 at the Lawrence
Memorial Hospital, Medford, MA. Joan
was born in Stoneham and resided with her family in Everett until she was six
years old. She moved
to Malden where she was a
life long resident. Joan worked for
the Sexton Can Co. in Everett for fifteen years while raising her family. Mrs.
Hampton was a nurse's assistant
and worked at the Bartlett
and Buchanan Nursing Homes in
Malden for twenty years where she worked with handicapped
and downs syndrome adults, a job she loved to do.
Joan was a communicant of Sacred Heart's Church in Malden and
loved to read historical romance novels and shop on QVC on television.
Mrs. Hampton lived in Malden, for
sixty-four years. She is survived by her mother Gertrude
E. (Wilder) Overlan of Malden,
her daughter Karen A. Hampton of
Malden, her son William
A. Hampton and his wife Christina of
Champlain, NY, her sister's Jacqueline
F. Russell of NH, Judith A. Symonds of Malden, Joyce V. (Olson)
Minasian of Malden, her cherished
grandchildren Jennifer, Ryan, Cody and Caleb Hampton all of
New York. Joan was known as
auntie to her many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband William R. Hampton
who passed away on August 28, 1973, her father Corneilus F. Overlan, and her
brother Neil A. Overlan. She was born March 23, 1933 in Stoneham, MA the daughter Gertrude E. (Wilder) and the late Corneilus F. Overlan. Visitation will be held at the Weir - MacCuish Golden Rule
Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden, on Sunday from 2-4
& 7-9. Contributions in Joan's memory may be made to the Mystic Valley Elder Services, Inc., 300 Commercial St., Malden, MA 02148. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Monday August 18th at 10:00 AM in Sacred Hearts Church, Malden. Burial will be in the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden.
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