Alvina Frances Beinoras, died at the Good Samaritan Medical center in Brockton on August 10, 2007. She was 85.
Born January 9, 1922 at her ancestral homestead in West Bridgewater that is still occupied by 5 generations of Pingree descendants.
She was raised & educated in West Bridgewater. She was a graduate of the Hunt Hospital School of Nursing as a Registered Nurse.
She worked in Chicago & New York, before becoming an operating Room Nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Alvina enjoyed the company of relatives & friends, the symphony, the Patriots & Red Sox. She was corresponding secretary for the Old Bridgewater Historical Society.
Wife of the late Stephen J. Beinoras; mother of Stephen M. & his wife Maureen of Mass., John E. & his wife Sandra of NH, , & Ann F. Cassingham & her husband Brian of California; grandmother of John Jr., Maegan & Justin. Sister of the late Michael Pingree.
A Funeral mass will be celebrated on Monday, Aug. 20, in St. Ann’s Church, 103 North Main St. West Bridgewater at 10:00 AM With a reception to follow at 162 Howard St. West Bridgewater. Burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the A.F. Pingree-Beinoras Nursing Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 355, West Bridgewater, MA. 02379.
Arrangements by the Prophett Funeral Home, Bridgewater.