Virginia M. Hoye

MATTAPOISETT — Virginia Mary (Cleary) Hoye, RN; 91 years old, of Taunton and Mattapoisett, died at her home in Mattapoisett on Monday, August 13, 2007.

Born in Claremont, NH daughter of the late Thomas and Annie (Keating) Cleary. She was educated in Stevens High School and was graduate of St Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing in Lowell. It was there that she met her husband, the late Charles E. Hoye, MD.

A communicant of St Mary's Church in Taunton, she was founding member of the St. Mary's Women Guild. She was a recipient of the Marian Medal from the Diocese of Fall River; a member of the Queens Daughters; Coyle High School Mothers Club; Morton Hospital Auxiliary; Holy Union Associates; Board of Directors of Taunton Visiting Nurses Association.

She worked with her late husband in his medical practice and was a School Nurse for the City of Taunton.

She is survived by her children, Sara-Ann Hoye Mullan, MD and her husband Mark Mullan, MD of Springfield; Charles E. Hoye, DMD and his wife Carolyn of Taunton; William J. Hoye, DDS and his wife Maureen of Mattapoisett; Thomas C. Hoye, Sr. and his wife Carolyn of Taunton; Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye of Mashpee; David M. Hoye, DMD and his wife Joan of Sutton; Stephen R, Hoye, DDS and his wife Kathleen Hoye, MD of Taunton; James P Hoye MD and his wife Kelly Hoye, MD of Dighton and the late Robert P. Hoye, DDS. She is the grandmother of 26, great-grandmother of 25. She is the sister of Kathryn White of New London, NH and aunt and great-aunt of several.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial in St Mary's Church, Taunton on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 11AM. Visiting hours on Thursday from 4-8PM in the Crapo-Hathaway Funeral Home, 350 Somerset Ave. (Route 138 South) Taunton. Interment St. Francis Cemetery, Taunton. Donations in her memory may be made to Morton Hospital Remembrance Fund, 88 Washington St, Taunton, MA 02780 or to St. Mary's Church, St Mary's Square, Taunton, MA 02780.