Joan W. Kent

SAGAMORE BEACH — Joan W. Kent, of Duxbury, Sagamore Beach, and most recently Plymouth, died on July 13, 2008. She was 90 years old.

She is a graduate of Concord High School, Class of 1936, and then attended Hickox secretarial school.

Mrs. Kent raised her family, with her husband, the late Edmund H. Kent, in Duxbury. She then moved to Sagamore Beach, where she spent 32 years. Most recently, she has spent the past six years at Sunrise in Plymouth.

She was the mother of Deborah Perkins of Maine, Edmund H. Kent Jr. of Wareham, Pamela Sobering and her husband Peter of Connecticut, and the late Lucy Sinatro; sister of Patricia Amadon of Colorado; grandmother of Jonathan Crowe of Arizona, Kari Crowe of New Hampshire, Elizabeth and her husband Manole Sabiolakis of Mansfield, Jordan Andreini of Connecticut, Michael Andreini of Cambridge, David Andreini of Connecticut, Bryan Sinatro of California, Curtis Sinatro and his wife Elizabeth, Geoffrey Sinatro, and Neal Sinatro, all of Connecticut; great-grandmother of seven.

Services will be private.

Donations may be made in Joan's name to the Alzheimer's Association, 36 Cameron Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140.

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