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Dorchester, MA Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Dorchester, Suffolk County & Surrounding Areas
Homer G. Thibodeaux
May 31, 2021
Homer G. Thibodeaux was born November 1, 1924, in Orange, Texas. He is the son of the late Homer G. and the late Ida Mae McAllister Thibodeaux. Homer was an only child growing up in a multi-racial home during a different racial climate. After his formative years, Homer entered the United States military. In August of 1943, he began active...
Beverly A. Dawn
May 29, 2021
Beverly Ann Dawn was born on January 29, 1937, in Boston, MA, to Conway C. Smith & Gladys I. Smith. Beverly was the youngest of ten children. She was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. She was loved and cherished by all who knew her. She was lovingly referred to as Nana and Aunty B. Our beloved...
Jimmy Lee Smith Sr
May 21, 2021
Jimmy Smith affectionately known as Lil jimmy and Pop Pop peacefully entered Heaven’s Gates on Friday, May 21st, 2021. Jimmy was born in Haynesville, Alabama on May 26th, 1956 to Leola Corbett (McCall) and the late Arthur Smith. Jimmy spent the majority of his life in Boston MA. Jimmy was a skilled and simple gentleman that prided himself on helping...
Augusta Jones
May 12, 2021
BOSTON - Augusta Jones, 85, passed away on May 12, 2021 at St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Boston. She was born on September 9, 1935 in Brooksville, Mississippi. Augusta is the daughter of Mattie Gray (Hudson) and the Reverend Richmond Gray. She moved with her family to Mobile, Alabama when she was 11 years old and lived there until she...
David L. Carpenter
May 7, 2021
David Carpenter of Quincy, MA was born January 2nd 1964 in Memphis, TN to the Late Mord Bell and Geri Carpenter. David was called to his final resting place on May 7, 2021 at 57 years of age. He (David) spent most of his life residing in the Greater Boston area and was educated within its school system before he...
Herminia W Huggins-Diaz
May 5, 2021
Herminia W. Huggins-Diaz was a mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. She left this world on May 5, 2021, after an 18-month battle with a serious illness. She was born to Eugenia and Eric in Port of Spain, Trinidad. In her early twenties, she left Trinidad for the American dream. She began working and eventually attended Northeastern University, where...
Claudine C Francois
May 3, 2021
Claudine C Francois was born on July 20, 1943 in Point Fortin Trinidad & Tobago and raised in a typical Judeo- Christian family, she graduated from Point Fortin Primary English Catholic School and Swan Commercial School. Claudine came to the United States on April 16, 1968. She came as part of a program and resided with a family in Scituate...
Marcia O. Mccarthy
May 1, 2021
Marcia Olivia Walcott McCarthy was born in Barbados,West Indies on November 12, 1951 to the late Eileen and Joseph Walcott. She was the fourth of six children. She attended St. Paul’s Primary School and graduated from St. Michael’s Girls School in Barbados,West Indies. In 1978, Marcia immigrated to Boston and worked in various roles in the Medical Records Department at...
Marie St Brice
Apr 29, 2021
Marie Altagrace St. Brice, 81 of Mattapan MA passed away peacefully at on Wednesday, April 29, 2021. Marie was born on February 15, 1940 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and came to the United States in 1976. She was the daughter of the late Robert St. Brice and Anne Louis St. Brice. Marie worked at Pondview Nursing Home as a Certified Nurse’s...
Bertha Lee Daniels
Apr 26, 2021
Bertha Lee Daniels beloved grandmother and church mother was Born on September 28th, 1934, to Mother Rosie Sanders Bennett and father Joseph Montgomery Bennett. Bertha was born in Marion Alabama in Perry County she was a hard-working woman who loved to travel and later to her residence in Boston Massachusetts and then Pawtucket Rhode Island. Her church assignments were as...
Terrence Clarke
Apr 22, 2021
Terrence Adrian Clarke was born on September 6th, 2001 to Osmine Clarke and Adrian Briggs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. Sadly, we’re gathered here today to honor his earthly life, which he tragically departed from far too soon. As the result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on April 22, 2021, Terrence transitioned, at...
Sarah E. Green
Apr 17, 2021
A Celebration Of Life & Legacy In Loving Memory of Sarah “Emma” (Gaymon) Green Sunrise: November 9, 1924 – Sunset: April 17, 2021 To everything, there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born and a time to die; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to...
Aguinaldo Desena
Apr 16, 2021
Aguinaldo DeSena, also known as “Gilly” aka Mr. Love. Born on March 31,1935 in Brava, Cape Verde Aguinaldo served in the Portugal Military Service between 1955-1963 and was a Merchant Marine. He retired from Gillette after working several years. Aguinaldo had a passion for music and cooking in his younger days he played the guitar in a band in the...
Dorothy Adassa Burgess
Apr 13, 2021
Dorothy Adassa Whyte Burgess (also known to her hus-band as Dara), was a resident of Dorchester, Massachu-setts. On April 13th, 2021 Dorothy, at the graceful age of 83 years old, passed away at the family home surrounded by loved ones. On April 6th, 1938, in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, Dorothy Adassa Whyte was born to Josephus Whyte and Albertta Murray. Dorothy...
Vethum I Ashby
Apr 8, 2021
Vethum, affectionally known as “Mummy and Aunt V” was born in Christ Church, Barbados November 5, 1938 to Elmonda Phillips and Eugene Sullivan. Mummy worked at Excel Supermarket, then at Carlton Snackette as manager serving up delicious beef and chicken rotis along with tasty milkshakes. Mummy attended Black Rock Wesleyan Holiness church in Barbados, where she assisted in choir rehearsals,...
Mary Lucy Sanders
Apr 6, 2021
On Tuesday, April 6, 2021, Mary Lucy Sanders, 67, gained her wings and departed this world, and returned to her creator to live a more pleasant and joyous life. Born on April 11, 1953, in South Hampton County, VA to the late Calvin Lee (Sr.) and Lottie Beatrice Worrell, she was the youngest of three children. There she attended grade...
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