Varriale, Frances Catherine (Kelley) formerly of Weston, passed away peacefully on December 29, 2024 at Belmont Manor Nursing home with her family in attendance. She was 108.
Born on August 7, 1916, in Dorchester, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Catherine (Donovan) Kelley. She was a graduate of St. Mary’s, Cambridge and Boston Business School. She married Alfonse Varriale on June 1, 1941, lived in Waltham and finally settled in Weston, MA in the early 1950s.
Frances worked at home to raise her four children and assisted her husband at the family’s business in Wellesley MA.
She is predeceased by her husband Alfonse T. Varriale, her daughter Linda E. Jenkins, her brothers, Edward Jr., Eugene, John and Francis, her sisters Elizabeth, Patricia, Eleanor, Mildred, and Rosemary.
She leaves her children, Diane Whitney of York Harbor, ME, Steven Varriale and his wife Julia of Weston, MA, and Thomas Varriale and his wife Jean of Dedham, MA; her six grandchildren, Jay Whitney, Tia (& Mark) Bush, Hilary (& Jonathan) Alford, Christopher (& Carissa) Jenkins, Marisa (& Paul) Wyler and Anna Varriale; her eight great grandchildren John and Frances Bush, Henry and Libby Alford, Caleb and Emily Wyler, Hadley and Avery Jenkins. She is also survived by her sister Joan Hannon of Cambridge MA, as well as many nieces and nephews.
There will be a funeral Mass celebrated at St. Julia’s, 375 Boston Post Road, Weston on Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 10am. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Visiting hours omitted. Interment will follow at Linwood Cemetery in Weston. In lieu of flowers you may honor Frances’s memory with a contribution the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital Boston, www.lovetotherescue.org.