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Page 22 OBITUARIES Eleanor M. Mangerian Devoted woman of faith and family passed away peacefully Wednesday early morning hours of October 6. She was 89 years old. Ellie was born in Boston, the daughter of Irish immigrants from Kerry, Ireland, Joseph and Theresa Clifford. She grew up in Dorchester and was a graduate of Monsignor Ryan High School. After graduating from high school, Ellie secured a position working for Boston Edison as a secretary for the executive team. While working at Boston Edison for 25 years she attended the Burdett Business School at night. Then Ellie went onto further her education at Bunker Hill Community College and received her Associates Degree in Culinary Arts. Ellie was introduced to the love of her life Richard D. Mangerian by her brother in law Brian. They were married in 1966. Ellie and Dick moved to Stoneham in whereby she joined St. Patrick’s Church and was a longtime member for 50 years. Ellie was very involved at St. Patrick’s Church in many programs. She was a lector, served on parish council, a member of the prayer community, marriage encounter and the Catholic Charismatic renewal program. After retiring from Boston Edison, Ellie continued her employment as the office manager at Hope Psychological services for 15 years plus. Ellie was the beloved wife of 55 years to Richard Mangerian. She was the loving mother of Christine and her husband Paul Gumbrecht. She was the step grandmother of Paige and Jenna Gumbrecht. She was the caring sister of Marilyn Walsh and the late Joan McSweeney. Sister in law to the late Jack Walsh and Brian J. McSweeney, Jr. She was also the loving sister in law to Berge and his wife Elisabeth, and Queenice Stewart. She is predeceased by George, Hemenyaq, Hiak, Arpeen, Irene, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth. Family and friends are kindly invited to gather and share memories with the family on Saturday OctoTHE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021 BHRC | FROM PAGE 21 ber 16, 2021 in the Barile Family Funeral Home 482 Main St. (RT28) STONEHAM from 8:30 am to 9:30 am followed by a Funeral Mass Celebrating Eleanor’s Eternal Life in St. Patrick Church, 71 Central St. Stoneham at 10am. Interment Glenwood Cemetery, Everett. Please consider donations in memory of Eleanor to the Dementia Society of America Post Office Box 600 Doylestown, PA 18901 https://www.dementiasociety. org/donate. Mary T. (Mylott) McLaughlin and we must work to improve the efficacy of this system before we implement sweeping measures.” “After thoughtful debate on the floor of the Senate, I am thrilled that we have passed this landmark legislation to make voting more accessible than ever for all citizens of Massachusetts,” said Sen. Mike Rodrigues (D-Westport), Chair of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means. “I am proud of the collective effort of this body to improve the bill through the amendment process to ensure safe and secure access to the ballot box.” “Democrats in the State Senate are quick to rush through a very controversial election bill without bi-partisan support because many of their members are either seeking higher office or considering higher office,” said Paul Craney, spokesman for Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. “They want this to help them in Democratic primaries. There is no good reason why something this momentous and controversial needs to be rushed without support from both parties and without buy-in from groups with differing ideological viewpoints.” (A “Yes” vote is for the bill. A “No” vote is against it.) Sen. Sal DiDomenico Yes DROP BOXES FOR VOTERS (S Mary entered eternal rest on Saturday afternoon, October 9, 2021 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers, surrounded by her loving family. She was 82 years of age. Born in Williamstown County Galway Ireland, she is the daughter of the late Thomas and Ellen (Reilly) Mylott. Mary grew up in Ireland and attended school there. She graduated from Williamstown High School. When Mary turned 18 she came to the United States. She dedicated her working career as a homemaker, taking care of her home, her husband and their 4 children. Mary liked to remain active and devoted her time to her family, especially her grandchildren. She was a long time Everett resident but moved to Wilmington three years OBITUARIES | SEE PAGE 25 2545) Senate 13-25, rejected an amendment that would require each city and town to have at least one ballot drop box for voters to deposit their ballots from the day the ballots are printed and available to voters until the polls close on Election Day. The amendment requires municipalities with more than 25,000 voters to provide one drop box per 25,000 voters and requires the boxes to be in a public location that is accessible to voters for at least 12 hours per day. “During the 2020 election, we witnessed how the expanded use of ballot drop boxes provided a safe, convenient and accessible way of voting amid a global pandemic,” said amendment sponsor Sen. Becca Rausch (D-Needham). “However, in some of our largest cities and smaller towns, drop boxes were not a viable voting option because they weren’t accessible, weren’t open or didn’t even exist. We can fix that problem setting baseline standards for municipal ballot drop box accessibility.” “Mandating that municipalities maintain one ballot drop box per 25,000 residents would create substantial new costs and obligations,” said Sen. Cindy Creem (D-Newton).“Not only would municipalities have to purchase and deploy the drop box, they would have to devote staff time to the periodic collection of ballots and to collecting ballots on Election Day when they are already stretched thin and concerned about the work they have to do. (A “Yes” vote is for the ballot drop box requirements. A “No” vote is against them.) Sen. Sal DiDomenico No PERMANENT VOTING BY MAIL OPTION (S 2545) Senate 7-31, rejected an amendment that would allow voters to choose to become a permanent voter by mail for all future elections, a temporary voter by mail for all elections in a calendar year or a temporary voter by mail for one specific election. The measure automatically enrolls voters who voted by mail in the 2020 state primary and general election as permanent mail voters. Voters would also have the option to change their status at any time. Sponsor Sen. Becca Rausch said that the state does not require voters to reregister every year and should not require voters to sign up for various voting methods each year. “By allowing voters to choose automatic delivery of a ballot in every election, we tear down unnecessary barriers to exercising the right to vote,” said Rausch. “Every extra step we add to the process of voting—including forcing people to opt into vote by mail annually— places another burden on the voter in their exercising of this fundamental right. Elections must be accessible for all voters, plain and simple. Expanding voting options to include a permanent vote by mail status is one way we can empower voters to exercise their fundamental right to vote.” “We do feel that it is important that each voter opt in to vote by mail on a regular basis is going to count for any address change, etc.,” said Sen. Barry Finegold (D-Andover). “People do move and this amendment would have ballots sent to their former address in perpetuity.” (A “Yes” vote is for the amendment. A “No” vote is against it.) Sen. Sal DiDomenico No WORKERS GET PAID TIME OFF TO VOTE (S 2545) Senate 12-26, rejected an amendment that would require all employers to give each worker two hours of paid time off per election to vote. The employee could use that two hours to vote early in-person, vote by mail or vote on Election Day. The amendment would replace a current law that is narrower and requires the worker to apply for a leave of absence in order to vote and only allows the worker to vote during the two hours after the polls open on Election Day. “Workers should not have to choose between earning a paycheck and exercising their fundamental right to vote,” said sponsor Sen. Becca Rausch. “Where Massachusetts should be a leader in the nation on the issue of granting paid time off to head to the polls, we are notably far behind. Twenty-three other states and the District of Columbia already enacted paid time off for voting, and our commonwealths’ citizens deserve the same.” “I think if we really want to have a discussion about how we really want to help people that are working two, three, four jobs, we should have that discussion,” said Sen. Barry Finegold. “But I don’t think this [amendment] solves that. There is a problem out there, that we did not have enough people in lower social economic communities take advantage of vote by mail, because they don’t trust the post office and there’s a lot of misconceptions up there. That is something I believe we need to work on, but I don’t think this is going to be the solution to get people from lower social economic communities to come out to vote even more. I do think that with some of the things we have passed, having a better public relations campaign explaining the benBHRC | SEE PAGE 23

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