Mary Anne Gorman

Mary Anne Gorman attended Blessed Sacrament School on Regent Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated in 1942 from St. Patrick\'s High School in Providence, Rhode Island. She worked as a secretary before her marriage. William and Mary Dorgan lived at 151 Regent Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island after their marriage. They moved in 1954 to 85 Herschel Street, Providence, Rhode Island. In 1975 they moved to Oakridge Road in North Scituate, Rhode Island.

After the birth of her first child, Mary Ann, who died at birth of Spina Bifida, she worked briefly for the Peerless Box Company. Later, she returned as a secretary for the Briggs Limited Company, a haberdasher in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

Under President Johnson\'s "Man-Power" Act she returned to school. She graduated from Rhode Island Junior College with a nursing degree. She worked at Roger Williams General Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island from 1964-1980.

Mary Anne Gorman was a devout Catholic, wife and mother. She died of breast cancer at the age of 57. She was my mother, I miss her still.

Mary Anne (Gorman) Dorgan
Birth: Mar. 7, 1925
Death: Jun. 28, 1982
 
Burial:
Saint Ann\'s Cemetery
Cranston
Providence County
Rhode Island, USA
Plot: Section 39, Lot #694