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Bertha Nolan Obituary
Bertha currently of Trumbull was born and raised in Gloucester City NJ. A prominent athlete in her youth she was an All American and Olympic Alternate Field Hockey player and went on to a long and rewarding career as a high school teacher and celebrated girls basketball coach at Gloucester Catholic High School in Gloucester City NJ. A graduate of Gloucester High School and Glassboro State University Bertha's career as a high school basketball coach earned her and her teams numerous state championship titles and coaching awards. A plaque in tribute to her contribution to girls and women's basketball hangs in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA. She is scheduled to be inducted next week into the South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame.
Bertha is survived by her childhood sweetheart and loving husband of 62 years Andrew Nolan their two children Drew Nolan and his wife Beverly of Merchantville NJ and Dianne Nolan and her husband Mark Breslin of Fairfield CT and Bert's grandchildren Julie Ryan and Coe Nolan Zachary Andrew and John Breslin.
Relatives friends former educators and students are kindly invited to attend her viewing on Sunday Evening from 6 to 9 pm and Monday morning from 9 am to 10 am at the McCANN-HEALEYFUNERAL HOME: 851 Monmouth Street at Brown Street) Gloucester City. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10:30 am at Saint Mary's R.C. Church: 426 Monmouth Street Gloucester City. Interment New Saint Mary's Cemetery Bellmawr. Family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations in Bert's name be made to the Bert Nolan Memorial Scholarship Fund: c/o Gloucester Catholic Alumni Association: 333 Ridgeway Street Gloucester City NJ 08030. Please write in memo of check: Bert Nolan. Expressions of sympathy can be e-mailed to the family through our funeral home website www.mccannhealey.com (http://www.mccannhealey.com/) under online obituaries of Bertha ""Bert"" Nolan. Funeral Arrangements and Inquires may be made through:
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The Healey Family
October 13, 2007
Rosemary, Patrick, Roseann, and John Healey would like to express our deepest sympathy to the family and to assure the family that we will be there to help them in their time of need. Our prayers go out to you and your family at this time.
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