Virginia M. Hughes
...worked at Wang, Purity and Marshall’s; 75
TEWKSBURY - Virginia M. (Ennis) Hughes, 75, a resident of Tewksbury for the last fourdecades, died unexpectedly on Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, at Saints Memorial Medical Center inLowell. She was the wife of John J. Hughes Sr., who died in 1991.
She was born in Boston, June 13, 1928, the daughter of the late William and Anna (Gazzola)Ennis. She was raised in Boston and graduated the Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester. She had lived in Tewksbury since 1964.
Her working career as an accounting clerk spanned fifty years, beginning at John HancockInsurance in Boston, Wang Laboratories North Street headquarters in Tewksbury, and PuritySupreme Market’s headquarters in No. Billerica. She was currently employed by Marshall’s storein the Stadium Plaza in Tewksbury.
She was a communicant of St. William’s Church in Tewksbury, and will best be remembered forhaving devoted her life to her family.
She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Virginia and her husband John Gardiner Jr. ofChelmsford, Anne K. and her husband Victor Zammit of Hampstead, NH, Mary-Ellen and herhusband Joseph J. Heider of Chelmsford; two sons and a daughter-in-law, John Joseph Jr. and hiswife Nancy (DiBacco) Hughes of Tewksbury and William S. Hughes of Tampa, FL; a brother,Henry Halligan of CA; five grandchildren, John H. Gardiner III, Joseph J. Heider Jr., Maria K.Heider, John J. Hughes III, Ryan Hughes; and her best friend Samantha.
Her Funeral Mass was held Saturday, Oct. 4, in St. William’s Church. Interment was inSt. Mary’s Cemetery, No. Tewksbury.
Inlieu of flowers, memorials to the Joslin Diabetes Center, 1 Joslin Pl., Boston, MA 02215, will beappreciated.