Dr. Higgins
THE ANCHOR ~Y, Jon. 4, 1985
A Mass of Christian Burial was offered Dec. 28 at Holy Name Church, FaJ.l River, for Dr. Anne Marie Higgins, wh9 died unexpectedly on Christ mas Eve. Dr. Higgins, formerly a Mary knoll sister, had practiced medi-·' cine in Fan River for over 15 years.
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She was medical director of the city's 'Catholic Memorial Home and was a member of the medical staffs of St. Anne's and Charlton Memorial hospitals, al so in Fall River.
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As a Maryknoll missioner for over 20 years, she had served as a doctor in Bolivia and Guate mala and had become an ex pert in tropical medicine.
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She was a member of numer ous professional societies and was active in the Holy Name Women's Guild and the Fall River Catholic Woman's Club.
TAUNTON DEANERY CCD students, their parents and teachers attend Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Mass, concelebrated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Taunton' dean ery priests, gave the young people, some of whom had never visited the cathedral, an opportunity to see the mother church of the diocese and meet the bishop. (Torchia Photo)
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BOSTON (NC) - The Massa chusetts Senate and House' of Representatives, in a special con stitutional convention Dec. 12, voted 108-79 to repeal a century old amendment to thli state con stitution that prohibits aid to pri vate school students. The "anti-aid amendment" was attached to the state constitu tion in 1855 by the anti-Cath olic Know-Nothing Party. The prohibition, one of the stiffest in the nation, has prevented any assistance to non-public school students, such as :loaning text books. Before the state can allocate aid to private and parochial school s~udents, both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature must vote on the new amend ment .again in the 1985·86 ses sion. If it succeeds in the ~egis lature the amendment will be
Sister McKenna A Mass of Christian Burial was offered Christmas Eve at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, for Sister Johanna MoniCa Mc Kenna, SUSC, 94, who died Dec. 22 .at Sacred Hearts (:onvent, al so FilII River. Sister Johanna,' a native of Pawtucket, was the daughter of the ,late Francis' J. arid Alice (Hickey) McKenna. After gradua tion from Carnegie College, she entered the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts in 1919. During her many years of ac tive ministry she taught at St. Mary's and Immaculate Concep tion schools, Taunton, and in schools of her community in New York and 'New Jersey. She retired in 1960.
submitted to voters in a state wide referendum in November 1986. The pro-aid amendment reach ed the referendum stage'in 1982 but.was defeated by a vote of 1,160,130 to 708,034. The Massachusetts Catholic Conference declared it "a matter of justice and equity to support this proposal." State Sen. William Bulger, speaker of the Senate, presided at the session and branded the existing anti-aid amendment "de meaning to Catholics." He said the proposed repeal would "right a wrong and remove a blot from the state constitution." "We are not looking for any thing extraordinary. We just want to bring our constitution in line with those in the rest of our country," Bulger said. "We are saying that prejuidice against Catholics or blacks or anyone else has rio place in our consti tution or our society." He called equal education op portunity "the last frontier of civi,1 rights." House Majority Leader Paul White also' supported the amend ment, saying, .. Our first com mitmen.t is to. public education, but we have to be fair to those who have chosen to send their children to non-public schools."
at a time when public schools are suffering from a funding problem.
Ordination set for tomorrow' Members of the Fall River dio cese are invited to attend a Mass at II a.m. tomorrow at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, at which Bishop Daniel A. Cronin wiH ordain six young men to the transitional diaconate. All are presently serving in diocesan parishes. Their names, home towns and the parishes in which they are stationed follow: James Calnan, New Bedford, serving in St. Patrick's, Ware ham; David Costa, Taunton, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Mi chael Dufault, Fall River, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro. ,
The daughter of the late Atty. Thomas F. Higgins, a former Fall River mayor, and the late Nora E. (Madden) Higgins, she gradu ated from the former Sacred Hearts Academy in Fall River and from the College of Mt. St. Vincent and Georgetown Univer sity Medical School. She is~urvived by a sister, Miss Eileen Higgins, with whom she made her home, and by sev eral nieces and nephews.
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