- Date Of Birth: March 14, 1913
- Date Of Death: January 1, 2006
- State: Massachusetts
UPTON – Anna C. (Swett) Gorman, 92, formerly of Upton, died Sunday, January 1, 2006, at Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Northbridge after a lengthy illness. She was the widow of Joseph W. Gorman, Sr., who died in December of 1972.
Mrs. Gorman was born in Worcester, a daughter of the late Jeremiah H. and Lillian M. (Lincoln) Swett, and attended Worcester schools, Rutland Hospital School of Nursing, and graduated from David Hale Fanning School of Nursing. She worked as an LPN at St. Vincent Hospital and was night supervisor at Shrewsbury Nursing Home for three years. In addition, she was a licensed insurance agent for Traveler’s Insurance.
She was elected State Senator for the First Worcester-Middlesex District of the Silver-Haired Legislature. The District served nine towns and four precincts in Worcester.
Although her family was first in her heart, she was also an avid traveler, touring five continents and the continental United States many times. In her younger years, Anna took flying lessons at Hopedale Airport and was a former ladies golf champion at Pine Ridge Country Club. Over the last 16 years, she divided her time between her home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Upton, returning to this area full-time in 1999. Reading was her passion and she loved music and taught herself to play the organ.
She leaves two sons, Joseph W. Gorman, Jr. and his wife Rita of Upton and Paul R. Gorman and his wife Mary of Acworth, GA; three daughters, Joan E. Varney and her husband Donald of Upton, Maureen E. Orr and her husband Frank of Columbus, GA, and Margaret R. Dean and her husband George “Pep” of New Smyrna Beach, FL; a sister, Louise Devine of Worcester; a sister-in-law, Evelyn “Pearl” Swett of Leicester; a brother-in-law, Harold Erickson of Millbury; 16 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was also the grandmother of the late James M. Varney and the sister of the late Katherine “Dot” Erickson and William Swett.
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