Josephine Driscoll

Josephine Driscoll obituary, Rockland, MA

Josephine Driscoll

Josephine Driscoll Obituary

Published by The Abington Mariner from Apr. 4 to Apr. 19, 2019.
Josephine (Arena) Driscoll, beloved wife of the late Charles A. Driscoll, longtime resident of Rockland, passed away quietly at the Webster Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center on April 2, 2019. She was 101 years old. She worked at the Bostonian Shoe factory in Whitman for many years and retired from Electro Signal Lab in Rockland, as a foreman, when it moved to Weymouth. She was politically active as the recording secretary for the Rockland Town Republican Committee for which her brother, Larry Arena, was chairman for many years. She was a highly talented ceramics artist who displayed many of her pieces in her home and wrote a 1939 World's Fair Anthology of Poetry award winning poem called the "The Norwegian Custom". She is survived by her niece, Rosemarie Arena-Williams and her husband Edward Williams, who lived with her for 25 years; and 7 nephews, Brian, Charles, James and his wife Sandy, Paul, Peter and his wife Debbie, Robert and his wife Bonnie and Roy and his wife Jane Arena; and many great-nieces and nephews. Visiting hours in the Sullivan Funeral Home, 45 E. Water St., Rockland, on Friday, April 5, from 4-7 p.m. A funeral home service will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. Burial will be private. For directions and online guest book, visit www.SullivanFuneralHomes.com.

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April 30, 2019

My mother, Dot Kent, and Josie were very good friends. I am so sorry to hear of her passing. I know the two of them are up there yucking it up!

April 19, 2019

My sincere sympathy for you loss, may the Creator of the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1. Give you strength and comfort you with peace during this most difficult time of deep sorrow. Arlene Ny.

April 8, 2019

God is a God of all comfort and he will comfort us in all our trials...My condolences to your family's...
JC from VA

April 7, 2019

My condolences to the family for your loss. May the God of all comfort "who binds up the brokenhearted and comfort those who mourn" sustain your family during this difficult time. Isaiah 61:1,2

My deepest sympathy
Evelina Z

April 6, 2019

I'm so very sorry about your great loss. Not many of us can say we have a family member that has lived such a long life. May you find comfort in God's promise that Josephine will one day return to the days of her youthful vigor. Job 33:25

April 5, 2019

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends.

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