Elaine Paradise Muise

MUISE, Elaine Paradise of Westwood, passed away at the Queen Anne Nursing Home in Hingham on November 24, 2008, at age 74. Born in Quincy, she was the daughter of Anna (Larkin) and Alphonse J. Paradise and is the mother of Joseph J. Muise of Foxboro, Mary Alice Muise of Bridgewater and Anne Marie LaSalvia of Holbrook and grandmother of 7. She was the sister of the late Ann Danforth and Richard R. Paradise. Music Director and organist for St. Clare's Parish in Braintree, Elaine, as a Thayer Academy student, performed a piano solo at Symphony Hall and was a member of a 50-piano orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler. She received her BA from Radcliffe College, where she sang with the Choral Society, and her MA in Teaching from Harvard, both with concentration in music. Further graduate study was pursued at Boston State College and Bridgewater State College in education; at BU in organ performance; at St. Michael's College in VT, in Gregorian Chant; and at the Choate organ/harpsichord seminars. Formerly a Weymouth school teacher and a piano instructor for the Boston Boys Choir, Elaine held 2 certificates from the Boston Archdiocesan Commission and was a member of the American Guild of Organists, a Secular Franciscan, a former prefect of St. Clare's Sodality, a member of the Radcliffe Alumnae Assoc. and a former officer and director of the Emma Forbes Cary Guild. Her Funeral will be from the Dennis Sweeney Funeral Home, 74 Elm St., QUINCY Center on Monday, December 1 at 9 AM. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Clare's Church at 10 AM. Family and friends are invited. Visiting hours Sunday 2-6 PM. Burial in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery. For online guestbook, please visit dennissweeneyfuneralhome.com. 617-773-2728