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 Marguerite "Peg" Doherty
October 18, 2003
Marguerite "Peg" Doherty, 91, formerly of 133 Higgins Drive, died yesterday morning at Sweet Brook Care Centers.
Born in Adams on Nov. 18, 1911, daughter of James F. and Nora E. Gardner Kernahan, she was a 1929 graduate of the former Adams High School. She also graduated from LeBaron's Cosmetology School in New York City.
She was a former resident of Upton Street in Adams.
Mrs. Doherty was employed as a social worker in the Adams and Williamstown welfare departments, retiring in 1973, after 20 years with the agency. She also had worked for the U.S. Army depot, the former Sprague Electric Co. in North Adams, That Coat Place in Adams, and the former Brightwater Paper Co. in Adams.
She was a communicant of St. Patrick's Church and, while in Adams, of St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
She was a member of the Massachusetts Association of Social Workers and the Sprague Retirees Club.
Her husband, Lawrence G. Doherty, whom she married Aug. 12, 1936, in St. Thomas' Church, died May 17, 1990.
She leaves a son, Charles L. Doherty of North Adams; a brother, William B. Kernahan of Rolling Hills, Lenox, a granddaughter and two great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A Liturgy of Christian Burial celebrating the life of Marguerite Kernahan Doherty, who died Oct. 18, 2003, will be offered Tuesday at 10 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church.
Calling hours will be Monday from 5 to 8 at MCBRIDE FUNERAL HOME, Adams. An inurnment service will be held Friday at 1 in Cheshire Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to Sweet Brook Care Centers' Employee Scholarship Fund through the funeral home, which is in charge of arrangements.
She leaves her granddaughter, Kelly Frederick of Adams, and two great-grandchildren, Austin and Kailynne Frederick of Adams. Two brothers, James and Leo Kernahan, and a sister, Kathleen Welton, are deceased.
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