Elizabeth Stinehart, 89, Lifelong Watertown Resident, Former Nurse

Elizabeth Rita (Linehan) Stinehart of Watertown died on Dec. 21 at the age of 89.

She was a lifelong resident of Watertown and she graduated from St. Patrick High School in the class of 1941. She went on to graduate from the Cambridge City Hospital School of Nursing in 1945 and Boston College School of Nursing with an RN. She worked at United States Public Hospital, Brighton Marine Hospital and locally at the Mt Auburn Hospital and New England Medical Center, according to an obituary on the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home website. 

She was a member of the Central Directory for Nurses, publicity chairperson for Watertown Women’s Club, Watertown Garden Club, Catholic Daughter of America, Guild of St Radegonde of Boston, Massachusetts Nurses Assoc. Lido Beach Women’s Club, Lido Beach Civic Club and St. John’s Parish in St. Pete’s Beach, Fla.

She was the daughter of the late John and Ellen (O’Callaghan) Linehan; wife of the late Elmer I. Stinehart; mother of Maureen V. Marx of Charlestown, Ellen M. Wright of Westmorland, N.H., Kathleen Saroufim and her husband Elie of Roslindale, Denise Stinehart of Mashpee, Charles M. and his wife Janet of West Newton, John D. & his wife Linda of Winchendon, Kurt and his wife Kristine of Watertown, Karl J. and his wife Elizabeth of Southwick and Marie Brainard and her husband Gary St. Pete, Fla.; sister of Rev. Maurice F. Linehan, M.S of Hartford, Conn., Sr. Eileen Linehan, OP of Watertown, and the late Marie M. Schiavone and John J. Linehan; grandmother of 30 and great grandmother of 14. 

Funeral from the MacDonald, Rockwell & MacDonald Funeral Home at 270 Main St., Rt. 20, in Watertown on Friday Dec. 27 at 8 a.m., followed by a Funeral Mass at 9 a.m. in the Church of St. Patrick, 212 Main St. in Watertown. Interment Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington. Visiting hours will be Thursday, Dec. 26 from 4-8 p.m. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Elizabeth’s memory may be made to the St. Patrick Food Pantry, 25 Chestnut St., Watertown, MA 02472.