Mr. Speaker. I rise today to recognize Julia Marie Donovan on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday this month. Mrs. Donovan. or June. as she is referred to by her many friends. was born on December 30. 1925. the oldest child of the OBrien family of North Cambridge. The daughter of Irish immigrants. June recounts that as children she. her two younger siblings. Cornelius and Rita. and her parents were a very close knit family. After losing her father at the age of thirteen. at the height of the Great Depression. June became even more involved with helping her mother.
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