MARY ALICE (MORIN) PETROWICZ

IT IS WITH GREAT JOY AND CELEBRATION THAT THE FAMILY OF MARY PETROWICZ ANNOUNCES THAT THEIR MATRIARCH HAS GONE HOME TO BE WITH HER LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024 EXACTLY ONE WEEK AFTER  HER 100TH BIRTHDAY.

MARY IS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND, MARION “MIKE” PETROWICZ, WHO PASSED IN OCTOBER 2018.  THEY CELEBRATED 69 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.  

MARY WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 11, 1924, TO PAUL J. MORIN AND MARY CORA (THIBAULT) MORIN.  SHE IS ALSO PREDECEASED BY HER BROTHERS, PAUL N. MORIN AND DAVID W. MORIN.

SHE LEAVES HER FIVE CHILDREN: MARY EILEEN STROCKY, MICHAEL ALAN PETROWICZ. ROBERT PAUL PETROWICZ, THOMAS JOSEPH PETROWICZ (LYNDA) AND GAIL ANN (LEONARD) HOGUE.  SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY 11 GRANDCHILDREN, 14 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND 4 GREAT-GREAT GRAND-CHILDREN.  IN ADDITION, SHE ALSO LEAVES MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

MARY WAS BORN IN WOONSOCKET, RI AND RAISED IN BLACKSTONE, MA. SHE GRADUATED FROM BLACKSTONE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1942 AND FURTHERED HER EDUCATION AT HILL COLLEGE IN WOONSOCKET, RI, GRADUATING FROM THEIR SECRETARIAL PROGRAM.  HER FIRST JOB WAS AT CHRISTIANSEN AND SON, A WOONSOCKET ACCOUNTING FIRM.  HER MOST RECENT EMPLOYMENT WAS AS SECRETARY TO THE LATE JOHN GREENE, BLACKSTONE POLICE CHIEF. OF NOTE, MARY WAS EMPLOYED BY THE WOONSOCKET CALL AS THE BLACKSTONE CORRESPONDENT, BEGINNING IN 1971.   MARY’S RECENT 100TH BIRTHDAY WAS THE HEADLINE ARTICLE IN THE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13TH EDITION OF THE CALL AND TIMES.  MARY WAS ALSO SECRETARY/BOOKKEEPER FOR HER HUSBAND’S BUSINESS, TREELAND NURSERY.  EVERY SPRING SHE WOULD DRIVE TO THE RETAIL NURSERIES IN MIDDLETOWN AND NEWPORT, RI TO HAUL BACK NURSERY STOCK FOR HER HUSBAND’S LANDSCAPING JOBS.

MARY AND MIKE WERE ACTIVE IN NUMEROUS ORGANIZATIONS, GROUPS AND WITH THEIR CHURCH.  WHEN HER CHILDREN WERE YOUNG, SHE WAS A 4-H LEADER AND BOTH WERE MEMBERS OF THE BLACKSTONE HISTORICAL COMMISSION.  A DEVOUT CATHOLIC, WHO LIVED HER FAITH EVERY DAY, SHE WAS ALSO PROUD OF HER IRISH AND FRENCH-CANADIAN HERITAGE, HAVING VISITED BOTH CANADA AND IRELAND IN HER LIFETIME.

HER FUNERAL MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE CELEBRATED MONDAY, DEC. 23,2024 AT 11:00 AM AT DIVINE MERCY PARISH (FORMER ST. PAULS CHURCH) AT 48 ST. PAUL STREET, BLACKSTONE, MA. RELATIVES AND FRIENDS ARE INVITED. BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN ST. PAUL CEMETERY.  IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS CAN BE MADE TO THE SALMON VNA AND HOSPICE, 37 BIRCH STREET, MILFORD, MA 01757. 

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