Martha L Curran

died Tuesday, May 24 in the loving arms of her daughter Martha, son Mark and daughter-in-law Lisa.

She was the mother of Thomas Curran of Sunderland, Vermont;

Martha E. Curran and her husband Peter Robbins of Natick;

Michael Curran and his wife Gail of Ketchikan, Alaska;

Mark Curran and his wife Lisa of Natick; and

Ann Gertner and her husband Thomas of Pittsford, New York.

She also leaves her loving grandchildren: Thomas Curran and his wife Marie of Dorset, Vermont; Cathleen Curran Cahill and her husband Liam of Centreville; Katherine Robbins Pollender and her husband Jason of Sturbridge; Elizabeth Robbins and her husband Simon Connor of Dublin, Ireland; Martha Ellen Robbins of Chicago; Mark Robbins of Natick;

Lisa Curran Pearson and her husband John of Ketchikan, Alaska;

Jesse Curran Caufield and her husband Sean of Phoenix, Arizona;

Sarah Curran of Waltham; Christine Curran of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and

Michael Gertner of Pittsford, New York. She was the Beloved Great-Grandmother of Melissa and Meghan Curran of Vermont; Emily and Molly Cahill of Centreville; Caity and Conor Pearson of Ketchikan, Alaska;

Darcy Eileen Pollender of Sturbridge; and Ellen Kathleen Connor of Dublin, Ireland.

Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of John P. Curran and Claire Mahony Curran. After earning her RN degree at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing in Brighton, she met Thomas F. Curran through the coincidence of their shared surnames. They were married in 1943 and spent the first year of their marriage in Washington, DC, where Tom was in Navy training and Martha worked at Walter Reed Army Hospital. After the war, they lived in Norwood. They moved to Sudbury in 1950 where they were founding members of Our Lady of Fatima parish. After Tom’s death in 1957, Martha returned to nursing and worked in public health for the Natick Visiting Nurse Association, and later, as Case Manager at Leonard Morse Hospital. She began a new career at age 70 as Ombudsperson at the Sudbury Senior Center. The Town of Sudbury, on the occasion of her retirement at age 80, declared Martha Curran Day in her honor.

A funeral mass will be celebrated Saturday, June 4, at 11:00 am at Our Lady of Fatima Church, 160 Concord Rd., Sudbury. Visitation will be from 9:00 o’clock to 10:30 am prior the funeral mass at the Duckett-J.S.Waterman & Sons Home of Memorial Tribute, 656 Boston Post Rd., Sudbury. Interment will be in St. Michael Cemetery, Hudson. Contributions in memory of Mrs. Curran should be directed to The Natick Visiting Nurse Association,

209 W Central St # 313, Natick MA 01760 or to The Sudbury Senior Center 40 Fairbank Road, Sudbury MA 01776