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Aurelia M. Veara, 101
Former buyer for W.G. Brown’s
Aurelia M. "Orie" Veara, of Gloucester, died at home on May 17. She was the widow of the late John A. Veara.
Mrs. Veara was born in Provincetown on April 9, 1906, to Jason A. and Lillian M. (Farrell) Swett.
She graduated from Provincetown High School in 1924. In 1929 she married her husband, also a Provincetown native, who died in 1975. Between 1925 and 1949 she worked as personal assistant to Mrs. Mabel Elliot Day of Provincetown, Back Bay and Annisquam. She and her husband moved to Gloucester in 1940 where he began working as an engineer for Gorton-Pew Fisheries. She began to work at the former W.G. Brown's department store and became buyer and head of the ladies lingerie department. During this time she enjoyed many trips to New York City to choose new merchandise. She enjoyed traveling, doing crossword puzzles, and was an avid reader.
She is survived by her sister-in-law, Cecelia Veara of Webster; her niece, Paula Smith and her husband, George, of Orlando, Fla. and Hyannis; several grand nieces and nephews; her goddaughter, Millie Ball; her special friends, Terry Palmisano, Paula Passanisi, Jennie Ruggiero, Leah McEachern and her guardians in later years, Vito Loiacono and R. David Porper.
Besides her parents and husband, she was predeceased by her sister and only sibling, Ruth J. Melnik and her husband, George; her nephew, Robert Veara and her good friends and neighbors, Lillian Marshall and Leonora Porper.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Our Lady of Good Voyage Church in Danvers at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 30.
Burial will take place the following week at St. Peter's Cemetery in Provincetown after cremation.
There will be no visiting hours.
Donations in her memory may be made to Our Lady of Good Voyage Church or to Hospice of the North Shore, 10 Elm St., Danvers, MA 01923.
Funeral arrangements are being conducted by the James C. Greely Funeral Home, 2l2 Washington St., Gloucester.
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Richard E. Medeiros, 78
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May 31st, 2007