ELLEN (HENNESSEY) HUGHES, 1894-1986

Ellen Cecilia (Hennessey) Hughes was born on June 29, 1894, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Sarah Cecilia (Mulhern) Flynn and Richard Hennessey, an Irish immigrant . EHH graduated from Boston Normal School in 1913 and taught in Boston schools for 10 years before her marriage to Alfred C. Hughes in 1923. They had four children: Dorothy, Marie, Alfred C., Jr., and Kenneth.

EHH was active in school associations, serving as president of the Randall C. Morris Home and School Association (1941-1942), the Roslindale Home and School Association (1945-1946), and the city-wide Boston Home and School Association (1949). In 1952, she compiled and edited the History of the Boston Home and School Association while serving as president of the Boston Normal School and Teachers College Alumni/ae Association. After her husband's death in 1966, EHH remained active in church-related associations, such as the Maria Fo Mission Circle, and was secretary for the Guild of the Holy Name in West Roxbury, Mass.

Grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of five, Ellen (Hennessey) Hughes died in 1986 and is buried in West Roxbury, Mass.

From the guide to the Papers, 1911-1981, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)