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 Mary Rose Bethard Ryan
November 06, 2007
Mary Rose Bethard Ryan, 94, of 51 Mount Williams Drive, died yesterday at Williamstown Commons.
Born in North Adams on Sept. 16, 1913, daughter of Daniel and Rose Goodman Twomey, she graduated from the former St. Joseph's High School and, in 1934, from the former North Adams Hospital School of Nursing. After six months of postgraduate work at Boston Hospital for Women, she attended Northeastern University and graduated from Simmons College.
Mrs. Ryan was employed by North Adams Hospital, now North Adams Regional Hospital, as a supervisor of the maternity unit from 1936 to 1941. After returning to Boston, she worked as a nursing instructor in maternity and child health at Boston Hospital for Women, now Brigham and Women's Hospital, from 1941 to 1981. At her retirement, a conference room was dedicated in her honor at the hospital.
She was a communicant of St. Patrick and St. Raphael's Parish and a member of the former St. Patrick's Church Ladies' Guild.
Her first husband, Allison Ellsworth Bethard, died April 7, 1960.
She and her husband, Charles F. Ryan, were married June 25, 1988, at St. Patrick's Church.
Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Charlene Murphy of Natick; two granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Mary Rose Bethard Ryan, who died Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007, will be Friday at 9:15 a.m. at FLYNN & DAGNOLI-MONTAGNA HOME FOR FUNERALS, West Chapel, 521 West Main St., North Adams, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Church, Williamstown.
Burial will follow in Southview Cemetery, North Adams. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. Memorial donations are suggested for St. Patrick's Church through the funeral home.
She also leaves two grandchildren, Rachel Latessa and her husband, David, and Sarah Murphy; three great-grandchildren, Benjamin, Zachary and Sophie Latessa; and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. She was predeceased by a sister, Gertrude Twomey, in 1985.
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