NORTH READING, MA — Dorothy B. “Dot” Paicos, died Thursday, May 7, 2020 at Sutton Hill Center Skilled Nursing Facility in North Andover, at the age of 93.
Born in Everett, MA on December 9, 1926. She graduated from Everett High School, Katherine Gibbs Business School, Harvard University Public Speaking course, and lived in North Reading at 22 Sunset Avenue, for over 40 years prior to moving to an assisted living facility in recent years.
During WW II she served as a volunteer member of the Air Spotter Corps and the Boston USO.
Dot was an Executive Secretary and worked for the Massachusetts Department of Education, Phillips Academy Andover and Raytheon Corp.
She was a past member of the North Reading Water Commission, President and long-time member of the North Reading Garden Club, an Arthur Murray Studio dance instructor, champion water skier, and received many juried awards for flower arranging and perennial gardening.
She organized several Garden Club fashion shows and was the North Reading Fund Raising Campaign Chairman for the construction of the Wilmington Regional Health Center.
Dot was married to Bill Paicos prior to his passing in 2003 and is survived by her son Kevin and Wife Ann, son Christopher and wife Molly and son Alex and her three grandchildren and two great grandchildren, all of whom she loved dearly.
Dot also had many additional relatives and dear friends who visited with her in the last few months of her life and she expressed her desire that they know how precious they were to her.
Her funeral will be at graveside, Wednesday, May 15, 2020.
Due to Corvid-19 restrictions, only a small number of family may attend.
In lieu of flowers Memorial donations may be made in her name to the New England Home for Little Wanderers, by visiting their website at www.thehome.org.
Arrangements are by the Croswell Funeral Home, 19 Bow Street, North Reading.
(NOTE: The above obituary is from Croswell Funeral Home.)
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