Mary Louise (Hogan) Stanton, of Hyde Park, formerly of Forest Hills, died at Highgate Manor in Dedham on June 28.
Born in Boston, she was a graduate of Boston’s High School for Practical Arts. She worked for the Submarine Signal Co. during World War II.
Mrs. Stanton married her husband, Joseph, in
1946 and became a homemaker. She was very involved with her children’s activities, and was active in her community.
She served as the Hyde Park Neighborhood Coordinator for Girl Scouts and was a volunteer for the Parent Teacher Association in Hyde Park (grammar school through high school).
In her later years, she was involved with Mil-Par Seniors and bowled with the group. She was a member of the Hyde Park Thought Club, the Massachusetts Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Hyde Park Historical Society.
She is survived by her husband of 64 years,
Joseph G. Stanton; her children, Thomas G. Stanton and his wife, Margaret, of Sandwich, Lorraine
M. Murphy and her husband, Alfred, of Needham, Elizabeth “Bettie” Kilcoyne and her husband,
David, of Dedham, and William D. Stanton-Myers and his partner, Steven A. Myers, of Boston; her
sisters-in-law, Mildred Cawley, of Dorchester,
and Mary Stanton, of Plymouth; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and many nieces
and nephews.
She was the mother of the late Jean M. Rooney, mother-in-law of the late Eugene H. Rooney Jr., and sister of the late Joseph Hogan, Thomas Hogan, Charles Hogan, Rev. William Hogan, Elizabeth Bugbee and Helen McEwan.
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated in St. Pius X Church on July 1. Burial was in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester.
Donations may be made to Sisters of Charity
of St. Elizabeth, P.O. Box 476, Convent Station,
NJ 07961.
Arrangements were by the Dolan Funeral Home.