Obituaries

Obituary: Audrey Corbett, Longtime Medford Resident

Corbett worked in the City Treasurer's Office at Medford City Hall and was a longtime parishioner of St. Francis of Assisi Parish.

The following is from Breslin Funeral Home.

Audrey M. Corbett, 95, passed away on Sunday, April 13, 2014.

She was born in Velva, N.D., on Aug 1, 1918 to her parents, Andrew and Catherine (Knauf) Wolters. Audrey was raised in North Dakota and Washington, D.C. She has been a resident of Medford for the more than 70 years. Prior to her retirement, Audrey worked in the City Treasurer's Office at Medford City Hall. She has been a parishioner of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Medford for most of her life. She was also a member of the Mother's Club at St. Francis when her children were young.

She was the wife of the late Michael B. Corbett; the mother of Patricia DiBlasi and her husband Joseph of Medford, Andrew Corbett and his wife Ruth of Lowell and Paula Thrower and her late husband David of Medford; the grandmother of Michele Buchanan and her husband Kevin of Tewksbury, Michael Corbett of Pheonix and David DiBlasi of Medford; the great grandmother of Darius, Manny, Colin and Sean; and the sister of the late Benjamin, Ross, Francis and George Wolters, Ruth Stusrud, Hazel Reams, Marion Edwards, Irene Arfsten and June Nelson.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral procession from the Breslin Funeral Home, 610 Pleasant St., Malden, on Friday, April 18, at 9 a.m. followed by a funeral blessing at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 441 Fellsway West, Medford, at 10 a.m. Services will conclude with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford. Visiting hours will be held at the funeral home on Thursday, April 17, from 4-8 p.m.


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