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Dorothy Colmes, Longtime teacher
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Dorothy "Dotty" Colmes of Brookline died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, at her home. She was 81.
Mrs. Colmes was born in New York and raised in Dorchester. She graduated from Boston Teachers College in 1941, then studied special education at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She began her career at Temple Mishkan Tefila in Boston, teaching English as a second language to Russian immigrants. She then taught preschool in both the public and private sectors. In 1975, Mrs. Colmes joined Shady Hill School in Cambridge. Her career spanned a half-century, including 25 years tutoring students with learning disabilities.
She leaves her husband of 60 years, Bernard M "Buddy" Colmes; her children, Francia C. Davis and her husband, Jed, of Manchester, Maine, and Wendy Davis-Sammis and her husband, Arnold, of Bedford, N.H.; her sister, Judith Fleischman and her husband, Edward, of Franklin Lakes, N.J.; and her grandchildren, Megan C. Davis, Caitlin C. Davis and Anna M. Davis.
She was the sister of the late Constance Lappin.
Services were held Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Levine Chapel, Brookline.
Remembrances may be made to the Dorothy V. Colmes Fund for Lymphedema Research, c/o Development Office, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215.
James Keaveney, Brookline resident
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
James T. Keaveney of Brookline died Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002.
He leaves his children, Patti Clark and her husband, Patrick, of Plymouth, and Michael "Pikey" Keaveney of Dallas; his mother, Peg (Thomas) Keaveney of Brookline; three brothers, Robert Keaveney of Brockton, John "Jack" Keaveney of West Roxbury and Kevin Keaveney of Laurel, Md.; and four grandchildren, Michael, Haley and Timmy Clark, and Taylor Keaveney.
He was the son of the late Robert J. Keaveney.
A funeral was held Saturday, Oct. 12, from the Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home, Brookline, followed by a funeral Mass in St. Mary of the Assumption Church.
Burial was in Walnut Hills Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army, 6 Baxter St., Quincy, MA 02169.
Vera List, Arts benefactor, received National Medal of Arts
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Vera G. List of Greenwich, Conn., died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002, at her home. She was 94.
Mrs. List was a Fall River native. When she was an infant, she moved to Brookline. She attended fashion design school and later transferred to Simmons College.
Mrs. List and her late husband were art collectors who built art centers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University and Swarthmore College. Other beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Opera, Mount Sinai Hospital and the Jewish Museum. In 1996, Mrs. List was presented the National Medal of Arts from former President Bill Clinton.
Wife of the late Albert A. List, she leaves three daughters, Carol Schwartz and her husband, Eric, of Denver, Olga Mack and her husband, George, of New York City and Viki Laura List of Rosemont, Pa.; 11 grandchildren; and 23 great-grandchildren.
She was the mother of the late Jo List Levinson, grandmother of the late Michael Israel and sister of the late Samuel Glaser.
Memorial donations may be made to the Vera List Scholarship Fund, New School University, 66 West 12th St., New York, NY 10011.
Arrangements were made by Plaza Jewish Memorial Chapel.
James Flanagan, Worked for MBTA
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
James G. Flanagan of West Roxbury died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002. He was 81.
Mr. Flanagan grew up in Brookline. He attended Northeastern University and served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He was a 45-year West Roxbury resident.
Mr. Flanagan worked in sales prior to joining the MBTA. He retired in 1986. During his retirement, he and his wife traveled extensively.
He leaves his wife of 50 years, Geraldine (Robinson) Flanagan; his daughters, Nancy Welch and her fiancé, Ed Delehanty, of Somerset and Carole Flanagan Pinto and her husband, John, of Easton; his sister, Mary Keyser of Hamilton; and his grandchildren, Courtney Gregory, Adrienne Welch and Daniel Pinto.
He was the brother of the late Joseph Flanagan, Lawrence Flanagan, Jack Flanagan, Gerald Flanagan, Stephen Flanagan and Richard Flanagan.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Monday, Oct. 7, in St. Theresa Chapel.
Burial with military honors was at St. Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury.
Arrangements were made by William J. Gormley Funeral Service, West Roxbury.
Raymond McNally, BC professor, 'Dracula' scholar
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Raymond T. McNally of Newton died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at his home. He was 71.
Mr. McNally was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He attended Fordham University in New York on a scholarship, graduating with honors in 1953. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Mr. McNally earned his doctorate degree from the Free University of Berlin.
During his three years in Berlin, he served with the intelligence branch of the U.S. Air Force.
He began teaching at Boston College in 1958, after two years as a professor at John Carroll University, Cleveland. He taught a variety of history courses at BC, most recently serving as professor of Russian and Eastern European history. He had developed an interest in Russia as an undergraduate living with a Russian family while studying at the University of Paris.
Mr. McNally established the Russian and East European Center at BC in 1964, and co-founded the Balkan Studies Institute in 1995.
He had an interest in classic horror literature, traveling to Romania to do research on the inspirations for Bram Stoker's "Dracula." He wrote several books, including "In Search of Dracula," and two books about Russian intellectual Peter Chaadayev.
A former Brookline resident, Mr. McNally served 12 years on the Brookline School Committee. He also served on the Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts.
He leaves his wife, Carol (Maymon) McNally; two sons, Michael McNally of Chalfont, Pa., and Patrick McNally of Newton; three daughters, Catherine McNally of Larchmont, N.Y., Brigitte McNally of Hull and Tara McNally of The Netherlands; a sister, Doris Shell of Cleveland; seven grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
A funeral service was held Monday, Oct. 7, from the Eaton & Mackay Funeral Home, Newton, followed by a funeral Mass in St. Ignatius Church, Chestnut Hill.
Burial was in Newton Cemetery.
Donations may be made to Boston College, in Memory of Raymond T. McNally, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Moore Hall, Room 220, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.
Esther Quinn, Formerly of Brookline, 98
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Esther Taft Quinn of Westwood, formerly of Brookline, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at the home of her daughter in Brookline. She was 98.
A native of Wisconsin, she lived most of her life in Chillicothe, Ohio, where her husband practiced ophthalmology. Fifteen years ago, she moved to Brookline to be near her children and became an active member of the Writing Our Lives class, offered by the Brookline Adult Education center. For the class, she wrote of the challenge of moving to New England from Ohio in her 80s, when "one's roots are grown into house and town, entwined about friends, old habits." One of her stories describes moving to a one-story house in the Cottage Farm area that was built on landfill and slanted precariously downhill. "As I tried to entertain our first guest in our living room," she wrote, "my chair took off and shot across the uncarpeted wood floor."
Mrs. Quinn and her husband lived in the Cottage Farm house for nine years before moving to Fox Hill Village in Westwood, where her husband died in 1997.
Earlier this year, with the help of her family, Mrs. Quinn published "Other Days ... Memories from the Last Century," a selection of her essays. One of the last essays in the book concludes with a trip to New York she took with her daughters on Amtrak for her 90th birthday.
Wife of the late Dr. Robert Emmet Quinn, she leaves her daughters, Margaret Quinn Simons and her husband, Thomas, of Cambridge, and Susan Quinn Jacobs and her husband, Daniel, of Brookline; four grandchildren, Thomas Quinn Jacobs, Suzanne Simons Borgenicht, Anna Taft Jacobs and Benjamin Thomas Simons; and four great-grandchildren, Alejandra Esther Jacobs, Daniel Nicolas Jacobs, David Thomas Jacobs and Sophie Eleanor Simons Borgenicht; and many nieces and nephews.
Services were private.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of the Good Shepherd, 2042 Beacon St., Newton, MA 02468-1431.
Arrangements were made by Levine Chapels, Brookline.
Irving Paley, Builder of commercial and industrial properties
Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Irving Paley of Chestnut Hill and Longboat Key, Fla., died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002, at his Chestnut Hill residence. He was 79.
Mr. Paley was president of Morris Construction Co. and Frontier Development Corp. of Lowell, a builder of commercial and industrial properties throughout the Northeast.
Born in Lowell, Mr. Paley graduated from Worcester Academy in 1940 and from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1947.
He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army with the 7th Armored Division in Germany.
He was a benefactor of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Mr. Paley was a longtime member of Congregation Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill and Temple Beth Shalom of Sarasota, Fla.
He leaves his wife, Charlotte (Karlin) Paley; his sons, Joseph "Jack" Paley and Martin Paley, both of Newton; a sister, Marilyn Stein of Newton; a brother, Bert Paley of Chestnut Hill; his brother-in-law, Irving Fanger of Newton; and his grandchildren, Amit, Shimrit, Frances and Emily Paley.
He was the brother of the late Pearl Fanger.
Services were held Friday, Oct. 4, at Congregation Mishkan Tefila.
Burial was in Mishkan Tefila Cemetery, West Roxbury.
Arrangements were made by Brezniak-Rodman Funeral Directors.
Leslie Vagliano, Active in community affairs
Wednesday, October 16, 2002
Leslie Shansky Vagliano of Brookline died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002. She was 49.
Born in Newton, she grew up in Lincoln and attended Lincoln public schools. She graduated from Brandeis University and from Rutgers Law School.
Following her graduation from law school, Mrs. Vagliano returned to the Boston area to live in Lincoln, where she dedicated herself to community affairs. She chaired the Lincoln School Committee from 1991 to 1994 and participated in numerous civic organizations.
She was a member of Temple Israel, Boston.
She leaves her husband, Andre Vagliano; her sons, Jason and Raphael Vagliano; her parents, David and Nettie Shansky of Lincoln; and her brother, Alan Shansky of Boston.
Services were held Sunday, Oct. 6, at Temple Israel, Boston.
Burial was at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline.
Arrangements were made by Brezniak-Rodman Funeral Directors.
