Arlene Zerega Kent

Kent, Arlene Zerega of Scituate, formerly of NY, January 6, 2005. Wife of the late William J. Kent. Loving mother of NY State Supreme Court Judge William J. Kent & his wife Patricia of Sayville, NY, John P. Z. Kent & his wife Mary of NYC, and Ethel Kent Wheatley & her husband Ronald of Scituate. Grandmother of John K. Wheatley, Elizabeth Wheatley, both of Scituate, John Kent, Jr., Edward Kent, William Kent, all of NYC, and Jill Desantes of Cutchogue, NY. Great grandmother of Samantha Descantes. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the Pyne Keohane Funeral Home, 21 Emerald St. (off Central St.), HINGHAM Tuesday at 9 AM. Funeral Mass in St. Anthony’s Church, Cohasset at 10 AM. Visitation 1 hour prior to Mass. Burial in St. John’s Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY Wednesday at 1 PM. She attended Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York and received a two year degree in 1922. She then took journalism courses at New York University, and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Brooklyn Standard Union for a period. Following that experience she returned to Fordham University where she received her Bachelors Degree. She became a social worker and spent thirty years as a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine teacher in Spanish Harlem through a settlement house: Casita Maria, located there, which she helped establish. For this work, in 1976, she received a special award and blessing at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York from Terrence Cardinal Cook. Mrs. Kent was the daughter of John P. Zerega and Ethel Hill of Brooklyn. John P. Zerega’s father, Antoine Zerega, founded the first pasta factory in Brooklyn, New York. She was the widow of attorney William J. Kent, Jr. former president of the H.C. Bohack Company in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York. Donations in her memory may be made to the Glastonbury Abbey, 16 Hull St., Hingham, MA 02043.