Dunn, Anna Mae (MacDonald, Skillin) of East Boston, Fall River, Newtonville, Waban, Wellesley Hills.
It is with deep sorrow that the family of Anna Mae Dunn announces her passing on Tuesday April 19th, 2022.
She was born to her parents, Hannah Craig Bailey MacDonald and Ernest J. MacDonald, in her grandparents MacDonalds Row House in East Boston in 1931.
She was predeceased by: her parents, both husbands Keith W. Skillin and John J. Dunn, her siblings Virginia MacDonald Kershaw, Evelyn MacDonald, Margaret MacDonald, Ernest MacDonald, JR, nephew Bruce Kershaw and a very special niece Brenda Kershaw McNeal.
She is survived by: Her stepson J. Michael Dunn, his wife Kathryn, stepson Timothy Dunn, wife Nancy, step grandchildren, Jeffrey Dunn, his partner Joseph Gregory, Danielle Lubs, her husband Matthew, Leslie McLaughlin, her husband Douglas, Sara Dunn, her companion John Palermo, Christopher Dunn, his wife Janine. Step great-grandchildren Conor and Jordan Lubs, Julia McLaughlin, Caiden and Avery Dunn. She is also survived by great nephews Brian Kershaw, his wife Laura, their children Amelia and Lilly, Bruce and Steven Kershaw, special and devoted great niece Meredith McNeal and her great nephew, Peter McNeal, his former wife Jill Faulkner, their children Clara, Grace and Colin McNeal.
Anna Mae graduated from Durfee High School in Fall River, MA in 1949 and then immediately moved to her grandparents’ house in East Boston. She found immediate employment at an insurance company where she met E. Joan Putney Davidson with whom she shared her life to the end, as Joan lived with her the last few years.
She was employed by Land Developers/Builders the greater part of her work life and worked into her easy seventies.
She built new friendships through her life and strengthened loving bonds with old and new friends, creating an electric community of friends. It saddened her greatly that as her health deteriorated, she was unable to keep up with her friends as she had in the past.
She had a remarkable mind for matters of trivial nature and was a news “junkie”. Anna Mae enjoyed spirited discussion on the matters of the day.
She was a person of great warmth and compassion who cared deeply for others and was a very devoted friend, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
The happiest times in her life were the many weeks she, her sisters and Joan Davidson spent in East Orleans, MA in a wonderful house they rented for many years.
Since her rheumatoid arthritis was the bane of her existence, in lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution in her memory to Arthritis Foundation, Massachusetts Chapter, 450 Chatham Center, 29 Crafts Street, Newton, MA 02458-1275. Private graveside service will be held in Newton Cemetery.