Miss Mary A. Andrews; was sister of Father John Andrews

BERKLEY, Mass. — Mary A. Andrews, 70, a retired member of the U.S. Foreign Service, and sister of Father John F. Andrews, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Wellfleet, died November 26, at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton following a brief illness.

Born in North Dighton, the daughter of the late Francis F.G. Andrews and the late Julia (Trond) Andrews, she was a graduate of Berkley Grammar School and Dighton High School Class of 1956.

Her Foreign Service assignments took her to Japan, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, El Salvador, the Soviet Union, Sweden, Canada and Washington, D.C. 

She also was assigned to special projects at the United Nations, as well as President Ronald Reagan’s trip to Ireland, and his summit in Geneva with Soviet President Gorbachev.

Following retirement in 1989, Andrews returned home to Berkley and served her community as a member and past president of the Council of Aging, the board of directors of Bristol Elder Services, as president of the Berkley Historical Society, as a trustee of the Berkley Public Library, and a member of the Public Safety Building Committee.

She also was State Regent of the Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution, was on the board of trustees of Hillside School in Marlboro; a member of the Old Colony Historical Society, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Scituate and Freetown Historical societies; and was a past president of District I of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.

Andrews attended St. Bernard’s Church in Assonet and was a past president of its Women’s Guild.  

Besides her priest brother, she leaves two other brothers, Robert V. Andrews of Naples, Fla., and Louis O. Andrews of Providence, R.I.; two sisters, Ann K. McGurk of Sarasota, Fla., and Carol I. Mills of Berkley; nieces and nephews, and great nieces and great nephews.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated December 1 in St. Bernard’s Church in Assonet. Interment was in St. Francis Cemetery in Taunton.


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