Ann M. DeLuca

Hingham – Miss Ann M. DeLuca, of Hingham, formerly of Waltham died Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. She was 83.

Ann was born in Chelsea on July 28, 1931, a daughter of the late Joseph and Rafaela (Chirchiolo) DeLuca. She was a graduate of Saint Rose High School in Chelsea. A Hingham resident for the past five years she had also lived in Waltham, Needham and in Winchester.

She began a career in banking as a teller at Shawmut Bank in Boston. She soon moved to the Cleveland Circle office where she became a personal banker before becoming the branch manager. By the time she retired Ann was working as a vice-president of the bank handling corporate lending out of the Boston headquarters.

Long active in Catholic charitable affairs she was a member and a past president of the Pro Parvulis Club of Boston that supported Catholic Charites of Boston and Sunset Point in Hull, a summer camp for city kids run by the agency. She also belonged to the Philomatheia Club of Boston, a charitable endeavor begun in 1915 by a group of Catholic women interested in the welfare of Boston College. With the establishment of scholarships, the presentation of gifts and the inauguration of various social and intellectual activities, the group swung into an ever-increasing program of eager work in conjunction with the college.

She leaves her sisters, Carmella A. DeLuca and Theresa C. DeLuca, both of Hingham.

Ann was also a sister of the late Mario, Anthony and Joseph DeLuca.

Family and friends will honor and remember Ann's life by gathering to visit in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main St., Waltham, on Wednesday morning, December 31st from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. before leaving in procession to Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted Church, 880 Trapelo Road, Waltham where her Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester.

Memorial donations may be made to Catholic TV, P.O. Box 9196, 34 Chestnut Street, Watertown, MA 02471.