Poetic Obituaries: Mrs. [Mary] Hallahan loved to crochet

and she gave homemade blankets to local hospitals for premature babies. Each design was different, to the point where she almost ran out of ideas, Mulcahy said. She taught her children to crochet as well.

She loved card games, cooking, and dancing. She enjoyed poetry and liked cutting different sayings out of newspapers, [Katherine] Mulcahy said.

from The Boston Globe: Mary Hallahan, 79

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