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Dolores T. (Jacoppo) Donovan, of Waltham, died Thursday, October 16, 2025 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was 78.
She was the wife of the late Robert D. Donovan.
Family and friends will honor and remember Dolores’s life by gathering for a Morning Wake in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte. 20), Waltham on Monday, October 27th from 10 to 11 a.m. followed by her funeral service at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham.
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