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Obituary:
EAST PROVIDENCE --- Dorothy R. Laughlin, 80, of the Riverside House Apartments, 1061 Willett Ave., owner of the former East Providence Bowling Academy, Waterman Avenue, for six years before retiring in 1946, died Sunday at Rhode Island Hospital. She was the widow of former East Providence Fire Chief John A. Laughlin.
Born in East Providence, she was a daughter of the late John W. and Marion S. (Hoar) Riley.
Mrs. Laughlin was a 1930 gradaute of Brown University. She was a member of the Pembroke Alumnae Association, the Pembroke Class Officers Association and the Pembroke Club. She was secretary of the Rumford and the Westerly Sunshine Clubs, and treasurer of the Riverside House Association.
She leaves a sister, Marion R. Baker of East Providence, and a brother, John W. Riley of Port Orange, Fla.
The funeral will be held Thursday at 8 a.m. from the Rebello Funeral Home, 901 Broadway, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9 at Sacred Heart Church, Taunton Avenue. Burial will be in Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Pawtucket.
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