Mary L. (Henderson) Wahler, of Whitman, passed away peacefully at the home of her daughter Linda on Sunday September 25th, with her children and grandchildren by her side.
Mary was born and raised in the Dorchester section of Boston and attended Boston Public Schools.
During World War II, she worked in industries in support of the soldiers. She also met her future husband Frank L. Wahler, a U.S. Marine while he was on a short assignment in Boston during the war. Her husband was a native of Arkansas and was born and raised in Wynne, Arkansas. She communicated with him regularly by mail while he was fighting in the Pacific. After the War they married in 1945 and they raised their three children in Dorchester in the St Mark’s and St. Ann’s parish’s. Her husband became a Boston Police Officer after the war and worked in several police stations through out his career and had varied assignments including under cover detective in the vice squad. After her husband retired they moved to Whitman where she was a volunteer for the Whitman Visiting Nurses Association helping the nurses with the well baby clinics. She and her husband were avid gardeners, he with his vegetables and she with flowers and were known beyond their Whitman neighborhood for their beautiful flowers and wonderful vegetables which they freely shared with friends and neighbors and donated to the Pine Street Inn in Boston. After her husband’s passing, she traveled to Switzerland and Hawaii and several other destinations that were on her list. She truly loved spending time with her grandchildren and they with her. She was also a familiar visitor to Whitman Senior Center and Senior Bus where she had many good friends.
She leaves behind three children; Linda Boggier of Plymouth, Diane Bradley and her husband Jack of Deerfield and Joseph Wahler and his wife Lynn of Alexandria, VA. She also leaves her six grand children, Mary, Keith, Damien, Lee, Johanna and Gregory, four great grandchildren, Kayla, Riley, Joseph and Thomas and one great great grandchild, Marianne.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend her funeral services on Friday September 30th at 8:15AM from the Blanchard Funeral Chapel Plymouth Street (Rt. 58 at the rotary) Whitman, followed by a funeral mass at 9:00AM in the Holy Ghost Church, Whitman. Burial will be in the St. James Cemetery Whitman. Visitation will be held on Thursday September 29th from 2-4 & 6-8. Donations in her name may be made to the Cranberry Hospice Center, 326 Cordage Park, Plymouth, MA 02360