Madeline Daniels

DANIELS, Madeline (Hyland), 83, of Norwood MA passed after a long illness. Mrs. Daniels was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and grew up and attended public schools in Norwood. She received a B.A. from Boston University and a M.S.W. (Master of Social Work) from Boston College. She spent 5 years as a medical social worker at St. Vincent’s in Manhattan and returned to Boston for several years work at Mass General and also Children’s Hospitals. In 1983 Madeline founded an adoption agency (Cambridge Adoption and Counseling Associates) and helped arrange about 250 adoptions over the next dozen years. She still receives Christmas cards from the families she had helped create. Mrs. Daniels is survived by her husband of 43 years, Gerald Daniels, and her daughter Pamela Bourque, her son Philip and her son in law Michael Bourque and her two grandchildren, Alexis and Jake Bourque.

Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 6 , at 9:00 AM from the Gillooly Funeral Home, 126 Walpole St., (Rt. 1A) NORWOOD, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 AM at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 547 Washington St., Norwood. Interment will be private. Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Madeline’s memory to St. Catherine of Siena School, 249 Nahatan St., Norwood MA, 02062.