. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ofeiruany VIECLBMA SILVA Our Lady of Lourdes Church in North Carver was filled to capacity for the Funeral Mass celebrated for Mrs. Medina (Wager) Silva, 79, matriarch of a family having 152 descendants. Burial followed in the family lot in the Parish Cemetery. The Rev. James Gibbons was celebrant of the Mass. Mrs. Silva died Aug. 7 at the Jordan Hospital where she had been a patient since the previous Satur- day. She had been in ill health for some time at her home on Purchase St., East Carver. Mrs. Silva was born on June 6, 1896
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. ofeiruany VIECLBMA SILVA Our Lady of Lourdes Church in North Carver was filled to capacity for the Funeral Mass celebrated for Mrs. Medina (Wager) Silva, 79, matriarch of a family having 152 descendants. Burial followed in the family lot in the Parish Cemetery. The Rev. James Gibbons was celebrant of the Mass. Mrs. Silva died Aug. 7 at the Jordan Hospital where she had been a patient since the previous Satur- day. She had been in ill health for some time at her home on Purchase St., East Carver. Mrs. Silva was born on June 6, 1896 in Fall River, the daughter of the late Joseph and Joquina 'Cunha) Wager, both of the Azores. She and her husband, Innocense J. Silva, Sr., observed their 65th wedding anniversary last Oct. 16. Holder of the Boston Post cane as the oldest citizen in Carver, Mr. Silva was 93 years old on June 13. Married at the age of 14, Mrs. Silva came to Carver with her husband who was employed on the :ranberry bogs. She worked right ilong with him, taking time out to rear her large family, to garden, :ook and be a friend to her neighbors. She was particularly loved by the children who came to ler door. Mrs. Silva is survived by her lusband; four sons, John J., Raymond E. and Innocense J. Silva, Jr. of Carver and Peter L. Silva of Southington, Conn.; five daughters, Mrs. Frank (Inez) Silva of Carver, Mrs. Louis (Jeannette) Vincent of Sacramento, Calif., Mrs. Andrews A (Jacqueline) Gomes of Carver, Mrs. Charles (Dorothy) Pina of Plymouth and Mrs. John (Mary Ann) Andrews) of Carver; 48 grandchildren; 86 great- grandchildren; and eight great-great grandchildren. Mrs. Silva's last two great-grandchildren were born recently, Medina Gomes was born on August 2 at the Jordan Hospital 8 and a son was born August 11, to a grandson and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Silva of Waterbury, Conn. RAYMOND EMERY Funeral services were held July 9 for Raymond Emery, 66, of New Egypt, New Jersey, prominent blue- berry
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