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In Memoriam
Educators from
Melrose High School
Class of 1976

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Kerrigan Janet M Kerrigan
Age
Birth
Death
Interred
Cause
85
 December 5, 1931
June 30, 2017
St. Joseph’s Cemetery

Parents: James Francis Kerrigan & Mary Sarah MacDonald
 When Janet M. Kerrigan was born on December 5, 1931, in Brookline, Massachusetts, her father, James, was 40, and her mother, Mary, was 36. She had three sisters. She died on June 30, 2017, at the age of 85.
Birth Place:
 Brookline, MA
Death Place:
 Newton, MA




Taught: Science
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Janet Kerrigan
 KERRIGAN, Janet M. Age 85, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 30, 2017. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts on December 5, 1931, she was the third of four daughters born to the late James and Mary Kerrigan. She was raised in Newton, Massachusetts and graduated from Newton High School with the Class of 1949. As a young girl, Janet loved visiting her family's home on Webster Lake in Franklin, New Hampshire during the summer months. Janet continued her education at Marymount College in New York, earning her Bachelor's Degree in 1953 before earning her Master's Degree in Biology from Catholic University in Washington, DC. Janet spent 16 years serving her Lord as a Nun with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. She began her ministry in education, serving as a teacher at Marymount High School in Arlington, Virginia before taking a position back in Massachusetts with the Melrose Public Schools, working as a Biology Teacher and School Counselor. Janet had a love for the water, sailing, and playing golf, as such, she enjoyed taking trips with friends to Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, and Nova Scotia. After her retirement, in 1995, she sold her condo in Stoneham moving to Rockport and later built a home in Gloucester to overlook the Little River. In 2013, she sold her home and settled into her new community, The Willows in Westborough, Massachusetts. Loving sister of the late Joan Kerrigan Morales, Martha Jones, and Maureen A. Berry. Devoted aunt of 13 nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend Janet's Memorial Mass in Saint Mary's Church, 176 Washington Street, East Walpole on Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 11:30 AM. Visiting hours are respectfully omitted at the request of the family and interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Janet's name may be made to: Salmon VNA & Hospice, 37 Birch Street, Milford, MA 01757. Boston Globe, 7/30/2017 Janet Kerrigan - 1974

Janet Kerrigan

Janet Kerrigan

Obituary

 KERRIGAN, Janet M. Age 85, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 30, 2017. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts on December 5, 1931, she was the third of four daughters born to the late James and Mary Kerrigan. She was raised in Newton, Massachusetts and graduated from Newton High School with the Class of 1949. As a young girl, Janet loved visiting her family's home on Webster Lake in Franklin, New Hampshire during the summer months. Janet continued her education at Marymount College in New York, earning her Bachelor's Degree in 1953 before earning her Master's Degree in Biology from Catholic University in Washington, DC.

Janet spent 16 years serving her Lord as a Nun with the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. She began her ministry in education, serving as a teacher at Marymount High School in Arlington, Virginia before taking a position back in Massachusetts with the Melrose Public Schools, working as a Biology Teacher and School Counselor.

Janet had a love for the water, sailing, and playing golf, as such, she enjoyed taking trips with friends to Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, and Nova Scotia. After her retirement, in 1995, she sold her condo in Stoneham moving to Rockport and later built a home in Gloucester to overlook the Little River. In 2013, she sold her home and settled into her new community, The Willows in Westborough, Massachusetts.

Loving sister of the late Joan Kerrigan Morales, Martha Jones, and Maureen A. Berry. Devoted aunt of 13 nieces and nephews.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend Janet's Memorial Mass in Saint Mary's Church, 176 Washington Street, East Walpole on Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 11:30 AM. Visiting hours are respectfully omitted at the request of the family and interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Janet's name may be made to: Salmon VNA & Hospice, 37 Birch Street, Milford, MA 01757.

Boston Globe, 7/30/2017

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