Longtime Wakefield resident
WAKEFIELD — Rose M. McManus, 94, of Wakefield and Vero Beach, Fla., died on Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Newfield House in Plymouth.
Born in Framingham on March 3, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Jerome R. and MaryAnn (O’Connell) White.
Mrs. McManus was a graduate of Our Lady of the Assumption High School in Wellesley and Mrs. Faye Secretarial School in Boston. She had been a Wakefield resident from 1952 to 2006 and a Vero Beach resident from 1986 to 2012.
Mrs. McManus was the wife of the late Thomas L. McManus. She is survived by her son Thomas L. McManus Jr. of Coral Gables, Fla.; her two daughters, Diane McManus of Plymouth and Linda McManus of Scituate, and her two granddaughters, Carling and Kelby McManus. Mrs. McManus was predeceased by her brother Hugh R. White and her sister Mary T. Marshall.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Athanasius Church, 300 Haverhill St., Reading, on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 11 a.m. Interment will be at Lakeside Cemetery in Wakefield. There is no period of visitation.
