Anne Moriarty Packard of Quincy, at 95, longtime nurse

Anne Moriarty Packard of Quincy, formerly of Manchester, Conn., died Wednesday at home. She was 95. She grew up in Thompsonville, Conn. She graduated from Cathedral High School in Springfield in 1941 and later from Saint Francis Hospital School of Nursing. Mrs. Packard was employed in a variety of positions at Connecticut General Insurance Company, Cheney Brothers and Southern New England Telephone. She began a 30-year nursing career, starting at Manchester Memorial Hospital. She was passionate about nursing and was a very compassionate caregiver, always putting her patients first. She was a great dancer, began as a lone female tap dancer in the “Jolly Thirteen” dancing troupe in Thompsonvile back in 1930, was proud of her Irish heritage and loved family gatherings, music and songs by Frank Sinatra. Mrs. Packard lived in Quincy for the past eight years, was a regular at the Fox and Hound and had many laughs in Ogunquit, Maine, especially at the Front Porch. Wife of the late Charles D., she is survived by a daughter, Patricia; a son, Stephen; a sister, Katherine Fitzgerald; three grandsons; a granddaughter; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at Holy Trinity Parish in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Quincy. Burial will be in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Enfield, Conn. Arrangements by Keohane Funeral Home, Quincy.