Obituary of Margaret Sears

“Peggy” Sears passed away after a long and valiant struggle with Alzheimer ’s disease on Saturday afternoon, July 26, 2014. Peggy was born in Jamaica Plain, the daughter of the late James and Margaret Dyer. She grew up and was educated in Jamaica Plain. She fell in love with a US Navy Veteran who had just returned home from WWII and was attending college to become a lawyer. They were married and they made their home in Cambridge and Woburn, before settling in Burlington in 1963. Burlington was a growing community filled with many other young families. Peg and her husband loved the town and raised their four children in the community. She and her husband later returned to Woburn where Peg spent her last seven years. Peggy’s family was the center of her universe. She was married to Arthur A. Sears for fifty-five years. Her husband was a successful attorney with a private law practice in Cambridge, MA. Peg was a caring and supportive mother to her children and a fun and loving “Nana” to her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Once her children were grown, she worked at an optometrist's office in the Burlington Mall for over twelve years. She and her husband spent many weekends at their summer home in West Dennis ...a place where her children, their spouses, and their children shared countless memories together as a family. Peggy was the loving wife of the late Arthur A. Sears. She was the loving mother of Donna Bushee & her husband David of Nashua, NH; Arthur & his wife Maribeth of Darien, CT; Robert & his wife Carolyn of Burlington and Lynda Sears Mazzocca & her husband Steven of Burlington. She was the sister of James Dyer of Everett and the late William Dyer and Marie Echteler. She was also survived by 8 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held in St. Margaret’s Church, 111 Winn St., Burlington on Tuesday, July 29th at 10 a.m. Relatives & friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment in Pine Haven Cemetery, Burlington. In lieu of flowers, memorials in Peggy’s name may be made to The Alzheimer’s Association, 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472. Arrangements by the Edward V. Sullivan Funeral Home, Burlington. For directions, obituary & online guestbook, please see www.sullivanfuneralhome.net & www.saint-margaret.org