Betty, Thanks for posting. I grew up in that area. The funeral home link has a photo also. www.mcgaffiganfuneral.com From: Betty <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: 2/28/2010 6:40:04 AM Subject: [NS-L] Obituary in Lowell, MA, US (SMITH, GOODWIN) Last year the newspaper in Lowell, MA (US), started offering more space to obituaries, and the paper covers all the bordering towns. Because it is a "mill city" from it's beginning in 1820's, there have always been people from many countries living there. I believe I saw an obituary earlier this month which had a connection to Nova Scotia. But, in yesterday's paper, I read another. It involves an uncommon name, so I thought I would mention it for your information. This is the first part of it: "Alice W. EBNER, of Chelmsford, 97 Chelmsford - Alice W. (Duggan) Ebner, 97, of Chelmsford, formerly of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, died February 24, 2010, at the Blaire House of Tewksbury, after a brief illness. She was born in East Pubnico, Nova Scotia, November 28, 1912, daughter of the late Irad E. and Mattie (GOODWIN) SMITH, and was the wife of the late Joseph Duggan and Edgar Ebner. She attended the Schools in Nova Scotia before coming to the United States in 1930 at the age of 18. A longtime resident of Manchester-by-the-Sea where she was a life-long member of the Liberty Rebekah Lodge. ......" She also had been a resident of Chelmsford. She was a caring mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She is survived by her two daughters, Joanne Dodge and her husband, James of Dover, N.H. and Judith Hamilton of Littleton, MA; five granddaughters, Deborah Borsari of Exeter, N.H., Wendy McCoole and her husband, Kevin of Eliot, Maine, Karen Beale and her husband, Terry of Montclair, VA, Lynne Newman and husband, Wayne of Ayer, MA, Allison Colpoys and her husband, Patrick of Chelmsford; eight great-grandchildren, Brittany & Ryan Flannigan, Julia and Joe Borsari, Scott and Katherine Newman, and Thomas and Jonathon Colpoys. EBNER -- of Chelmsford, formerly of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, Alice W. (Duggan) Ebner 97, Graveside Services will be held 11 A.M., Monday March 1, 2010 at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery Manchester by the Sea. Relatives and friends kindly invited. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Manchester Council on aging the Plains Manchester, MA 01944 or to Breast Cancer Stories.org, 244 Pleasant St., Eliot, Maine 02903 Arrangements By Hamilton-McGAFFIGAN F.H., Pepperell, MA. Please see www.mcgaffiganfuneral.com Published in Lowell Sun on February 27, 2010 www.lowellsun.com