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Theresa (O'Flaherty) Coccoli, age 85, of Uxbridge and formerly of Sudbury, MA and Carraroe, Ireland died on the memory care unit at Golden Pond Assisted Living in Hopkinton, MA on December 10th after a period of declining health.

Theresa was born on July 21, 1935 to the late John and Margaret (O'Donnell) O'Flaherty
in the small east coast town of Carraroe, in County Galway, Ireland.

Theresa and Joseph David Coccoli were married on November 20, 1965 and she was his devoted wife for 55 years. They had two daughters, Fiona and Shauna. They enjoyed visiting family by spending three weeks every year at Theresa's family home in Carraroe, Ireland.

Theresa graduated from Stoke Mandeville Hospital in London (nursing school) in 1958. In 1963, Theresa responded to an advertisement for a need of nurses in the United States where she found much success working in various Boston area hospitals. She met her husband in Boston where he worked as a Physicist at Draper Laboratory. Theresa was loved by the people and families she cared for.

Theresa was a devoted Catholic, enjoyed reading books and reciting Irish poetry from memory. She was fluent in the Gaelic language, loved animals, and gardening. Theresa enjoyed her time with her three grandchildren and visits from her four-legged friends. Theresa especially loved her visits with her husband Joseph. They would walk around the pond, sit at their favorite bench, and watch the herons.