Claire Devine

January 20, 1920 - July 7, 2017

Claire A. Devine, 97, of Nashua, NH died July 6, 2017 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Nashua. Mrs. Devine was born in Lowell, MA. The daughter of the late Thomas and Harriett (Davidson) Fagan. She attended the former Sacred Heart School and Lowell High School in Lowell, MA. She then entered Nursing School at Tewksbury State Hospital obtaining her R.N. in 1940. She was retired from the Edith Nourse Rogers Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA. She resided in Lowell and Chelmsford MA for many years until moving to Nashua, NH in 1985. She had been a lifelong member of the former Sacred Heart Parish in Lowell, MA and then at the Resurrection Parish in Nashua, NH. She was married to Michael J. Devine for 37 years, who died in 1978. She also had one son, Thomas Devine who died in 1989 and her daughter in law, Gloria Devine who died in 1995. She is survived by her grandchildren, Shelley Devine-Connors of West Roxbury MA, Michael Devine of St Petersburg FL and the late Kim Devine-Chrane who died in 2009. She is also survived by four great grandchildren; Siobhan and Rory Connors of West Roxbury, MA and Ryan and Sabrina Devine of St. Petersburg FL. She is also survived by two brothers Thomas Fagan of Florida and James Fagan of Lowell, MA and several nieces and nephews. She also was the sister of the late Phyllis Wheaton, Mary Fawcett, Marion Blair, Jean Mara, Francis Brown and her brother the late William L. Fagan. Services will be held on Tuesday July 11th beginning with and hour of public visitation at 9:30-10:30am in the Dumont-Sullivan Funeral Home, 50 Ferry Street, Hudson. A Funeral Mass will follow at 11am in the Parish of the Resurrection Church, 449 Broad Street, Nashua. Following Mass, Burial will take place in Lowell, MA in the St. Patrick’s Cemetery.