Louise Thatcher, 93
Was school, hostel house mother
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in West Tisbury Congregational Church in Martha's Vineyard for Mary Louise (Wiggins) Thatcher, a former house mother at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown and at the Vineyard youth hostel once owned by her son.
Ms. Thatcher, known as Louise, died Nov. 10 at her home in West Tisbury. She was 93.
A native of Carthage, Mo., and resident of the Vineyard since 1951, Ms. Thatcher was also a licensed practical nurse and during the 1940s and 1950s operated a shop in Sarasota, Fla., selling shells. Her shell collection is to be given to the Shell Museum now under construction in Sanibel, Fla.
Ms. Thatcher was a house mother at Perkins during the 1950s and at the hostel during the 1950s and 1960s.
She leaves her son, Thomas E. of West Tisbury, her adoptive daughter, Min-Tam Abruzzese of Oxford, and Ms. Abruzzese's four children.
Boston Globe
November 22, 1991.
Louise Thatcher, 93
Was school, hostel house mother
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in West Tisbury Congregational Church in Martha's Vineyard for Mary Louise (Wiggins) Thatcher, a former house mother at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown and at the Vineyard youth hostel once owned by her son.
Ms. Thatcher, known as Louise, died Nov. 10 at her home in West Tisbury. She was 93.
A native of Carthage, Mo., and resident of the Vineyard since 1951, Ms. Thatcher was also a licensed practical nurse and during the 1940s and 1950s operated a shop in Sarasota, Fla., selling shells. Her shell collection is to be given to the Shell Museum now under construction in Sanibel, Fla.
Ms. Thatcher was a house mother at Perkins during the 1950s and at the hostel during the 1950s and 1960s.
She leaves her son, Thomas E. of West Tisbury, her adoptive daughter, Min-Tam Abruzzese of Oxford, and Ms. Abruzzese's four children.
Boston Globe
November 22, 1991.
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