Brant Rock – Velma Adele (Greene) Ford passed away peacefully April 14, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Everett Carleton Ford, Jr.
Born in Brockton, October 31, 1920 she was the daughter of the late Percy and Lucy (Maxwell Durnion) Greene.
Velma, better known as Adele, graduated from Whitman High School and Burdett College, and had worked at the Regal Shoe, Gurney Brothers Jewelers, and the Whitman School Department.
Always very fashionable, she was a talented seamstress designing and sewing her own clothes and home décor. She also enjoyed drawing, cooking, reading and playing the piano. In her later years she purchased an organ and took lessons, learning to play that as well.
She was a communicant of the First Congregational Church (UCC) of Whitman.
Formerly of Whitman, she along with her husband, retired to Blue Fish Cove in Marshfield, the family summer home since she was a child, and they lived there for the past 30 years.
She and her husband had traveled to Florida several winters and to Maine in the summer, but their true enjoyment was their beloved home in Blue Fish Cove, where they spent their happiest times with their friends and loved ones.
She leaves her daughter Cheryl Tufankjian and her husband Charles of Duxbury; three grandchildren, Gregory Tufankjian and his wife Ellen of Wellesley, David Tufankjian and his wife Evelena of Duxbury and Rosemary Tufankjian Flaherty and her husband Edward of Duxbury. She also leaves seven great-grandchildren, Matthew and Michael of Wellesley, Calista, Sophia and David, Jr. of Duxbury and Ani and Charles of Duxbury.
Visiting hours will be held Sunday April 21 from 4-7 PM in the Blanchard Funeral Chapel, Plymouth Street (Rte. 58 @ the rotary) Whitman, with her funeral service to be held Monday April 22 at 11 AM in the First Congregational Church, 519 Washington Street, Whitman. Burial will follow in the Colebrook Cemetery, Whitman.
In lieu of flowers memorial remembrances may be made to the charity of one’s choice.