Doris Putnam Waltham - Doris (Blanchard) Putnam, the mother of a Tyngsboro woman, died yesterday, Nov. 1, in Caritas Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton after a short illness. She was 93. She was born in Danvers, a daughter of the late Fred and Melita (McPhetris) Blanchard. She graduated from Holten High School in Danvers in 1928, the Nasson Institute in Springvale, Maine, and the Peter Bent Brigham School of Nursing in 1936. Mrs. Putnam was a Waltham Public School nurse for 31 years before retiring in 1982. She had worked for the Waltham Visiting Nurses Association for seven years before joining the school department. She was a member of the First Congregational Church in Waltham for more than 60 years. Mrs. Putnam was also a life member of the Palestine Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Stars in Newton, the Hawthorne Rebekah Lodge, a charter member of the Massachusetts School Nurse Association and a member of Peter Bent Brigham Nurse Alumnae Association and the Retired Municipal Employees Association of Waltham. Her survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Sally and Russell Green of Waltham, and Cynthia Rich of Tyngsboro; eight grandchildren, Dale Fraser and his wife, Diana, of Waltham, Jay Fraser and his wife, Donna, of Newport, N.H., Rebecca Reed and her husband, Thomas, of Waltham, Sindia Swederski and her husband, Richard, of Norton, Vicki Gadolin and her husband, Scott, of Marietta, Ga., Cheryl Sylvester and her husband, Mark, of Woburn, and Ronald Rich and Tammy Rich, both of Tyngsboro; five great-grandchildren, Brendan and Matthew Fraser of Waltham, Joshua Fraser of Newport, N.H., and Erik and Andrew Swederski of Norton; and many nieces, nephews and special friends. She was also the sister of the late Cora Blanchard, Eleanor Houle, Ervin Blanchard, G. Everett Blanchard and F. Philip Blanchard. Published in the Lowell Sun on 11/2/2004. Guest Book . Flowers & gifts