Howe of Santa Clara, California, formerly of Brockton, Massachusetts 20 September 2007 Donata “Donna” (Coletti) Howe 86 years. Wife of the late Robert Howe, Jr. Mother of Robert Howe, III of Valdosta, GA, Richard W. Howe of Brockton, MA, and Ronald D. Howe of Sunnyvale, CA.
Visiting hours at the Conley Funeral Home, 138 Belmont St. (Rte 123), Brockton, MA, Friday, 28 September, 4PM to 7PM. Funeral Service at the Pearl Street United Methodist Church, 415 Pearl Street, Brockton, MA Saturday, 29 September, 9AM. Burial at Blue Hills Cemetery, Braintree, MA.
Donations in memory of Donata may be made to The Jimmy Fund/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor, Brookline, MA 02445-7226 Attn: Contributions Service, for online donations click here
Obituary
Donata “Donna” (Coletti) Howe 86 years died 20 September 2007 at the Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center Hospital after a sudden illness. She was the wife of the late Robert Howe, Jr. and resided in Santa Clara, California for the past four years. Previously she had lived in Brockton, Massachusetts for over 20 years. Mrs. Howe was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of the late Loreto and Lucia (Lucy) F. Coletti and was a graduate of Quincy High School. During WW II she was employed as a time clerk at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. She also worked as a chef for the Jordan Marsh restaurant at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Massachusetts before retiring in 1989.
She was a sociable, active, engaged, compassionate, and lively woman, who made friends easily, loved talking to people, and enjoyed life. She was ecumenical in her love of God and as such was a member of the Pearl Street Methodist Church in Brockton, MA as her home church, but also a member of Temple Beth Emunah in Brockton, the chaplain for the Striar Organization in Stoughton, MA, and a member of the Brockton Interfaith Council. While living in Brockton, she was an active member of the Chatham Chatters and even at 86 was ‘the life of the party’ at the Westmont Retirement Community where she lived in Santa Clara, California.
She is survived by three sons and their wives; Robert & Deborah (Miller) Howe, III of Valdosta, Georgia, Richard W. & Debra (Silver) Howe of Brockton, Massachusetts, and Ronald D. & Claudia (Antes) Howe of Sunnyvale, California. She was the grandmother of six (Robert Howe IV, David (Howe) Eaker, Lindsey M. Howe, Sarah E. Howe, Christopher G. Howe, and Jennifer L. Howe), step grandmother of one (Amy Starr), and great-grandmother of two (Jayne E. Howe & Katelyn Howe). She is survived by an older sister Marie (Coletti) Hayes of Florida and a twin sister Loretta (Coletti) Shipman of Vancouver, Washington, previously of Holbrook, Massachusetts. She was the sister of the late Carmine Coletti and was preceded in death by step granddaughter Kimberly Miller.