Marie A. (Bowman) Viehl
Family & friends are invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Thursday, December 10th at 11:00 a.m. in the Immaculate Conception Church (Corner of Beach St. & Winthrop Ave.) REVERE for MARIE A. (Bowman) VIEHL, who died on Sunday, December 6th at Windsor Place Assisted Living in Wilmington, unexpectedly.
Born & raised in Revere, she attended Immaculate Conception Grammar School & Immaculate Conception High School, graduating in 1952. In 1957, she married her childhood sweetheart, Murray F. Viehl. They recently celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary. They would have five children, all of them attending & graduating from IC Grammar School. For several years back in the sixties, almost ten years, Marie worked for Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, as a telephone operator. In those time times, the entire Board at BIDMC, was staffed by “REVERE” Girls; (Mary Kirkpatrick, Gertrude Cronin, Pauline Romano, Frances Dillon, Virginia Corbett, Dorothy Kingston, Ann Kingston, etc.). Theirs was an unusual friendship, actually more of extended family. Most of them would remain close & in-touch until death. After leaving Beth-Israel, Marie worked as a sales representative for “The GAP” at Chelsea. She was active in her parish church (ICC), & when her children, attended the school, very active in the Maria Assunta Guild & the Immmaculata Guild. Besides her adoring husband of 58 yrs, Murray F. Viehl, she leaves four children.
She is the devoted mother of Elizabeth J. Viehl-McKenna & her husband, Thomas of Revere & Boca Raton, Fl., Patrice A. Viehl of Everett, James O. Viehl & his wife, Anne of Salem, N.H., Kenneth F. Viehl & his wife, Erin of Pocasset, Ma. She was also the mother of the late Thomas M. Viehl who passed in 2008. She was the cherished Grandmother of Courtney M. Viehl of Providence, R.I., Sarah A. Viehl of Salem, NH., Michael T., Emily N., Nicholas J.& Alexa V. Viehl all of Hopkinton, Elizabeth R. & Victoria M. McGonagle both of Everett. She was the dear sister of the late, Dorothea E. O’Donnell, Robert G. Bowman, Patricia M. Carter. She is also lovingly survived by her daughter-in-law, Stephanie Viehl of Hopkinton, Ma., & many nieces & nephews. Interment will be Private.
Services
Funeral Mass
Thursday, December 10th at 11:00 a.m. in Immaculate Conception Church, Revere
Interment
Will be Private
In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept.142,
Memphis, TN 38101-9908.
So sorry to hear of your loss.