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Article: Constance Carey, 83; fought for the needy at aid agency
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 18, 2007
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During her almost 30 years of working with a nonprofit aid
agency, Constance (Prendergast) Carey, helped to provide food, fuel,
medical care, and hope to tens of thousands of low-income families
in Boston, Brookline, and Newton.
When neighbors called Action for Boston Community Development, or
ABCD, with concerns about elderly residents who stayed in bed all
day to keep warm, Mrs. Carey saw to it that they got blankets and
heat. When a newly arrived Vietnamese family was found sleeping in
their car one frigid night, Mrs. Carey persuaded a Dorchester fuel
company to provide fuel given by donors at discount prices for the
rest of the winter.
Mrs. Carey, who retired from ABCD in 1990 but was ...