Eunice Bertha Berger
Eunice Bertha Berger, a lifelong resident of Dorchester, died at Bostonian Nursing and Rehabilitation, Thursday September 23, 2010. Beloved daughter of the late Louis H. and Eunice (Burton) Berger. Sister of the late Earl Redmond and Burton Herman Berger. Eunice was a retired secretary for the family business, C.L. Berger and Sons Instrument Company, Dorchester. Funeral service at All Saints Church, 309 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, Monday September 27 at 11:30 AM. Relatives and friends invited. Interment Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
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So sorry to learn of Cousin Eunice, the younger Eunice’s passing on Thursday, 23 Sept. 2010. I am amazed and happy that Eunice must have been able to live so long and being so happy. I was notified of her passing this week from another Burton cousin in Massachusetts. I believe that this younger Eunice’s mother, nee Eunice Burton, was a 1st or second cousin of my late maternal grandmother, nee Malinda Burton of Weymouth and Chestnut Hill, Mass. (Mrs. Charles Wesley Allen). Both the elder Eunice and my grandmother, Malinda, were born in Inverness County, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. My mother, nee Gladys Burton Allen (Mrs. Judson Stewart MacGregor), used to telephone the younger Eunice Berger, the daughter of Eunice (Burton) Redmond Berger, in the 1980s and 1990s from my home in Huntsville, Alabama. Louis and Eunice (Sr.) Berger asked my mother and father to look out for their daughter, Eunice Bertha Berger, after they were gone, when my parents lived in Boston, Mass. After my mother’s death 21 March 1993 in Huntsville, I called Eunice a few times, and spoke with her roommates. The last time I called, I believe I was told that she wasn’t there. Probably she was in the Nursing home then, or hopefully, some such safe place.
I think that Eunice Bertha Berger would have been happy to have heard that my mother’ s younger brother, Herman Lorenz Allen, lived to be 102 in 2008 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. I hope that this Eunice may have lived so long also. I also hope that the distant Burton cousin in Massachusetts who emailed me about young Eunice’s obituary gets to read this.
I grew up in Milton, Mass., and I read the history of Dolan Funeral Services. My dad, Dr. Judson Stewart MacGregor, had a dental office on Adams St., East Milton, for many years. However, I don’t remember any Dolans in Milton. I wonder if one of the Dolan Funeral Homes is very near the corner of Granite St. and Adams St. I grew up in the following houses, 611 Adams St., and 478 Adams St. Both those houses are now long torn down. I was Class of 1953 at Milton High School, and class of 1957, Brown University, Providence, RI. I am glad that the Redmond-Burton line is still going strong. We have lots of Burton cousins in Rhode Island. That’s the Burton-Hart-Tingley line in Providence. I am from the Burton-Hart-Allen-MacGregor line.
Thank you, Dolan Funeral Services, for still posting a 23 Sept 2010 obituary (this is 6 Nov 2010!), and also to my cousin who informed me via email of young Eunice’s death.
P.S. I also used to attend All Saints Church, 309 Ashmont St., Dorchester, Mass. sometimes, probably 1959 to 1961, before my marriage, but I never saw the Bergers at church.
Sincerely,
Jean (MacGregor) Simon
Huntsville, Alabama