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February 19, 2017

Catherine A. Dewey

Dewey, Catherine A. (Scanlon) of Quincy, died February 19, 2017.

Catherine Dewey was a teacher. Her lessons taught by the way she lived her life. Her work was well beyond the normal, it came from a higher plane, and innate awareness of persons humanity. 

These are some of her lessons. Try to be kind and tolerant of everyone. Don’t do or say hurtful things. We don’t know what it feels like to walk in someone else’s shoes. Maybe that person had a tough life and right now their family is worried. 

It could be said she was an unremarkable person. The truth is she was a gifted person and her contribution from herself alone was monumental. She Left this beautiful world we all share with a path of kindness behind her. Most importantly, her path will continue on by her loved ones. It will be given a chance to go forward and reach out at the sides.

There was nothing more important to Catherine than being a Roman Catholic, her upbringing in the Mission Hill Neighborhood of Roxbury, Ma. She attended Mission Grammar and High School she was married to another great person Arthur L. Dewey in our Lady of Perpetual help Church in Mission Hill. 

Loving wife of the late Arthur L. Dewey.  Catherine is survived by her daughter Mary Elizabeth Dewey of Quincy and Boston.  

Loving sister of Eileen Giorgio and her husband Philip of Roslindale.  Aunt to Cathe, Colette and Sean Boudreau of Roslindale and dear friend of John Brady.

Daughter of the late John Scanlon and Ann (Byrne) Scanlon, sister of the late Mary, John, Paul, James, Francis and Richard. 

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the visiting hours on Thursday 5-8 PM in the Keohane Funeral Home, 785 Hancock St., QUINCY. Funeral Mass in Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1540 Tremont Street, Roxbury, MA at 9 AM. Burial in MA National Cemetery, Bourne at 2 PM. 

 

The Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.