Family and friends came together at the D’Youville Manor Nursing Home in Lowell, to celebrate the February 12, 2018, 100th birthday of Anna Dragon, who lived in Nahant from 1953 until recently and grew up in Lynn. Anna’s husband, William, died in 1983.
Dragon graduated from Lynn Classical School in 1935, and immediately went to work for Araban Coffee in Boston as an order clerk. After marrying and having four children, she later obtained her auto insurance sales license while also working at Sylvania in Lynn, and then “hung her shingle” at the Kilgore Insurance Agency in Lynn. From 1967 through 1990, she was the assistant administrator at the Jesmond Nursing Home in Nahant. After retiring, she worked as the volunteer assistant manager at the gift shop at Salem Hospital for 10 years.
Her passion is for her three sons, Bill, Jim and Greg, daughter Terri and their spouses, as well as for her many nieces, nephews and grandchildren and, of course, the Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots, who she continues to watch without fail.
In addition to many family members attending the celebration from all over the country, local friends joining the festivities included Dave Solimine, long-time family friend of Lynn, Toni Spinucci and daughter Linda Peterson of Nahant, Penny Maravelias of Lynn, Irene “Frangos” Decoulos and daughter Elaine of Boxford, Bruce Tarney of Swampscott and Bob Allard and girlfriend Betty of Nahant.