Mary Doherty (Dooley) Cosgrove (1907-1933) and Mary Rita (Cosgrove) Greene (1928-2005)
Mary Doherty4 (Catherine3, John2 Curran,
Catherine1 Houlihan) Dooley, was the eldest child of Michael F. and
Catherine Z. (Curran) Dooley. She was
born on 15 September 1907 at Lynn, Massachusetts. Her parents’ residence was 43 Norton Street,
Lynn, the home of her maternal grandparents.
Mary’s parents moved often.
By the time she was 19 she had lived in Lynn, Saugus, Braintree, and
Abington. In 1926, she was living with
her maternal grandparents again at 43 Norton Street and listed as a student in
the city directory[1].
In 1927, Mary married Joseph H. (also Howard J.)
Cosgrove. Joseph was born 17 August 1905
in Canada, the son of Frank and Emma Cosgrove.
He was employed as a steamfitter in a shoe factory.
The couple’s only child, Mary Rita Cosgrove, was born July 4,
1928, in Lynn. By 1930, the Cosgroves
were living first at 148 Liberty Street Suite 3 and later, when the
census was taken, at 64 Prospect Street, Lynn.[2]
Mary (Dooley) Cosgrove died at 64 Prospect Street on 19 November
1933 and was buried at St. Joseph Cemetery on 22 November 1933. The primary cause of death was listed as
articular rheumatism and the secondary cause as acute pericarditis.
Joseph Cosgrove remarried sometime in or before 1935, to Dorothy
Arline Platt, born in Lynn, 19 March 1909, the daughter of Samuel Platt and
Leah Phillips. They lived at several
addresses in Saugus, and later in Lynn, and in Sebastian, Florida. Joseph died on 8 June 1979 in Florida, and
Dorothy died 14 June 1990 in Massachusetts.
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| Mary Rita Cosgrove |
Mary Rita5 Cosgrove (Mary D.4 Dooley,
Catherine3 Curran, John2, Catherine1 Houlihan)
was raised in Saugus, Massachusetts with her stepbrother, Howard Arthur Spofford, son of Dorothy Platt. He graduated from Saugus High in 1944 and Mary Rita graduated two years later, in
1946. She
married Donald Vernon Greene in 1950 and they had two children[3]. Mary Rita died 15 May 2005 in Sebastian,
Florida and was buried 18 May at Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay. Her
husband Donald died 6 May 2011 at Tilton, New Hampshire and was buried with her
at Fountainhead Memorial Park.
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