| Dorothy J. (Lowney) Ahearn |
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Dorothy J. (Lowney) Ahearn, 79, member of a well-known family and a
longtime resident of the Highlands section of Lowell, died Wednesday at Saints Memorial Medical Center,
St. Joseph's Campus, after a long illness. Born in Lowell, daughter of the late Timothy and Ruth (Campbell)
Lowney, she attended Lowell elementary schools and Lowell High School. She was a communicant of
St. Margaret's Church and a member of the parish's Blessed Virgin Sodality. For many years she was the
den mother of the Cub Scout pack at St. Margaret's.
Mrs. Ahearn was the wife of Thomas P. Ahearn, with whom she recently celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary. Besides her husband, she is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Dorothy C. McNulty
and Ruthanne and Robert Fitton, all of Chelmsford, and Claudia Jean "Dee-Dee" and Robert Kovac, both of
Greenville, Penn.; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Thomas F. and Shirley (Jamison) Ahearn, both of
Indiantown, Fla., William G. and Mary Francis [sic] (Travis) Ahearn, both of Chelmsford, Terence P. Ahearn
of Lowell, and David Ahearn, Engineman First Class, U. S. Navy, and his wife, Margaret (Quinlan) Ahearn,
both of Old Lyme, Conn.; 12 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Nora T. Ahearn of
North Andover. |
| — The Lowell Sun 4 March 1994 |
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