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- Providence Journal, Rhode Island, Sunday, December 26, 1993
Cranston ? Dorothy E. Bessette
DOROTHY E. BESSETTE, 84, formerly of Birch Street, a clerk for the former Kennedy's Clothing at Warwick Mall for 14 years before retiring in 1979, died Wednesday at Kent County Memorial Hospital. She was the widow of Hector H. Bessette.
Born in Plainville, Mass., a daughter of the late John E. and Ella M. (Simmons) White, she lived in Warwick for 15 years before moving to Cranston in 1975.
Mrs. Bessette leaves two daughters, Mary Duffy of Enfield, Conn., and Barbara Smith of Las Vegas, Nev.; a son, Clifford Bessette of West Warwick; a brother, John E. White of Pawtucket; three sisters, Thelma Ferrara, Helen Dyer, and Florence Stoddard, all of Attleboro, Mass.; three stepbrothers, Robert White of Toledo, Ohio, Mederic and Melvin White, both of North Attleboro; five stepsisters, Shirley Bonneau of Attleboro, Mass., Lois Cleveland, Mary Jane, Brenda White, Patricia Nolan, all of North Attleboro; 9 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. She was mother of the late Joseph Bessette.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Pleasant Street, West Warwick. Burial will be in St. Patrick Cemetery, East Greenwich.
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