Mary Lucille Kennedy
Mary Lucille Kennedy passed away June 3rd in Palm Bay, FL, just twenty-five days before what would have been her ninety-seventh birthday. Lucille, as she was known, was born June 28, 1923 in Providence, RI, to Matthew and Margaret Kennedy. When she was four, her birth mother died of tuberculosis. Two years later, her father remarried, and Florence Beaudry Kennedy became her mother in every respect and inspired her to become a nurse.
Lucille grew up in Providence …
Visit this link to read the full obituary, which was written by New York Times best-selling author and Old Lyme resident Luanne Rice, and published June 9, in The Providence Journal.