Audrey Sweeney, 86
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. â€' Audrey Sweeney, 86, of 180 Pleasant St. died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Niantic, Conn.
Born in Framingham on Sept. 29, 1922, a daughter of Carroll M. and Rachel Reed Dearing, she was raised in Westborough and attended schools there. She also attended retailing and secretarial school, later graduating from what was then North Adams State College in 1979. She moved to North Adams in August 1955.
A Navy veteran of World War II, she served as a radioman, third class. She was in the second class of WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services) to graduate from basic training.
A devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Sweeney had been employed as a legal secretary in her younger years.
She was a communicant of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish and a founding and life member of the Westborough American Legion. She served on the board of trustees of her alma mater, now Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, for 10 years and was a member of the North Adams Historical Society.
Her husband, Vincent Hilary Sweeney, whom she married June 6, 1953, died July 31, 2007.
She leaves three sons, Paul D. Sweeney and his wife, Anna, of Chester, Conn., John H. Sweeney of Duxbury and Peter M. Sweeney and his wife, Liesl Steiner, of Hyde Park, Vt., and three grandchildren, Benjamin Sweeney, Virginia Sweeney and Sam Sweeney.
FUNERAL NOTICE â€' A Liturgy of Christian Burial for Mrs. Sweeney will take place Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 11 from St. Elizabeth's Church. Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery.
There will be no calling hours. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of the donor's choice through Flynn & Dagnoli-Montagna Home for Funerals, Central Chapels, 74 Marshall St., North Adams, MA 01247.