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Mary Philomina McPhee
Mary P. (Kehoe) McPhee, died Saturday evening , May 12, 2007 at her home in Malden, she was 90. Mary was born on March 22, 1917, the daughter of the late James & Ellen (Taylor) Kehoe. She was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and had grown up near the McPhee family. In their mid teens both Mary & Robert J. McPhee came to East Boston. The couple later married on September 4, 1937 in the Most Holy Redeemer Church. They stayed in East Boston, and started their family. In 1956 the family would later move to Malden. The couple would spend the next sixty years together raising their five children, until Robert's passing in December of 1996. Mary worked for the former Malden Hospital Coffee Shop as the Assistant Manager for many years until its closing; she was a former member of the Malden Moose and a member of the Sacred Hearts Parish. In her spare time Mary enjoyed caring for her family, cooking, baking as well as sewing and crocheting, she was mostly a home body. She is survived by her daughters, Ellen M. O'Brien of Malden, Mary J. McPhee of Malden and her companion Paul Sands, Roberta Archibald of Peabody and her companion Jim Ansell, Patricia DiDonato and her husband Michael of Malden, sister of Walter Keough of NH, and Margariete Rattray of Michigan, loving aunt of Carol DeFeo of E. Boston, sister-in-law of Kathleen Bates of Tewksbury. Mary was the proud and loving grandmother of fifteen grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren and many other loving nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert J. McPhee, her son James M. McPhee, her brothers Andrew Kehoe, William Keough, Lawrence Keough, her sister Sarah “Bea” DeFeo. Funeral from the Weir-Mac Cuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden, on Friday, May 18th at 8:45 AM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in Sacred Hearts Church, 315 Main St, Malden at 10AM. Interment to follow in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. Friends and relatives may call at the Weir Funeral Home on Thursday. May 17th. from 2-4 & 7-9. In lieu of flowers the family has requested contributions in Mary’s memory be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 311 Arsenal St. Watertown, MA 02472. |
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