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 Mary Iris Kiley
January 18, 2007
Mary Iris Kiley, 97, of Valentine Road, a former longtime resident of Maple Street, Adams, died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center.
Born in North Adams on Aug. 15, 1909, daughter of Daniel E. Kiley Sr. and Katherine Lions Kiley, she moved to Adams as a child and graduated from the former Adams High School in 1927.
She received a bachelor's from the University of Vermont and a master's in education from Columbia University in New York.
Ms. Kiley taught mathematics at the former C.T. Plunkett Junior High School in Adams for many years. She was known for her insistence on proper classroom decorum and was admired for her empathy with pupils who required help, often tutoring them after school.
She was a communicant of St. Thomas' Church and a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court Sancta Regina, the Northern Berkshire Retired Teachers Association, and the Massachusetts and National teachers associations.
She leaves two nephews, Daniel E. Kiley III of East Greenbush, N.Y., and James T. Kiley of Sacramento, Calif.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A Liturgy of Christian Burial celebrating the life of Mary Iris Kiley, who died Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007, will be offered Monday, Jan. 22, at 10 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, with the Rev. Daniel J. Boyle, pastor of the Catholic Parishes of Adams, as celebrant.
Burial will follow in the Kiley family lot in Bellevue Cemetery, Adams. Visitation for family and friends will be Sunday, Jan. 21, from 3 to 5 at MCBRIDE FUNERAL HOME of ADAMS, which is in charge of arrangements.
Her brother, attorney Daniel E. Kiley Jr., former clerk of the Northern Berkshire District Court, died in 1955.
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