Jean A. Crowley
...Senior Customer Service Rep; 78
TEWKSBURY - Jean A Crowley, age 78, a member of St. Dorothy’s Parish community in
Wilmington, died Saturday morning, February 3, at her home following a lengthy battle with heart
disease.
She was born in Medford, on March 10, 1928, a daughter of the late John F. and Ellen A.
(Conalty) Crowley. She had lived in Tewksbury since her infancy, and had graduated from
Tewksbury High School, where she had excelled in the women’s athletics.
She retired from the Houghton Chemical Company in Allston, where she had worked as a Senior
Customer Service Representative. In her earlier years she had worked at the Pruf Coat Company
in Cambridge, and State Street Bank in Boston.
She was an active communicant of St. Dorothy’s Church in Wilmington, a member of the
Wilmington Arts Association, and had traveled extensively around the world.
She is survived by two sisters and a brother-in-law, Sr. Marie Crowley, M.M. (Maryknoll), Ann
L. Sexton and her husband Thomas P. Jr. of Tewksbury; two nieces, Joanne Sexton of
Tewksbury, Patricia Proctor of Lowell; and a nephew, Thomas P. Sexton III of Hingham; several
grand nieces and grand nephews.
Her Funeral Mass was celebrated Tuesday, Feb. 6, in St. Dorothy’s Church, Wilmington.
Burial followed at Tewksbury Cemetery. Memorials to the Greater Lowell
Visiting Nurse Assn., Hospice, P.O. 1965, Lowell, MA 01853 will be appreciated.