Jean (Coppinger) Gaffey of Scituate and Pocasset passed away peacefully   at home in the company of her family on  Wednesday June 29, 2011. Born in Medford she summered in Scituate and after her marriage made her home there for the last 60 years. She was a graduate of Regis College with a BS in Accounting. An avid golfer and sailor she was a Distinguished Member at Hatherly Country Club and a Life Honorary Member of the Scituate Harbor Yacht Club. She was also a member of the Satuit Boat Club, Hyannis Yacht Club and Blue Water Sailing Club.

She was the beloved wife of the late.  J. Raymond Gaffey Jr.  Devoted mother of Joyce Ferris and her husband Richard of Montpelier; Martha Sawyer and her husband John of Scituate; J. Raymond, III and his wife Beth of No. Hampton N. H.; Ann Madden and her husband Mark of Scituate; and Thomas and his wife Lori of Scituate. She is also the grandmother of the late Nicholas G. Ferris and sister of the late Eleanor Chisholm, the late Catherine Monahan, and the late Thomas Coppinger. Sister-in-law of Eugene E. Gaffey of Keene, NH. Loving grandmother of 12 grandchildren.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, July 2, 2011 at 10 am in St. Anthony Church, 10 Summer St., Cohasset. Visiting hours Friday, July 1 from 4-7 pm in the McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home, 1 Summer St. (across from St. Anthony Church), Cohasset, MA. Interment Cudworth Cemetery, Scituate. Donations in her memory may be sent to Camp Ta-Kum-Ta (a camp for children with cancer)  PO Box 576, Waterbury VT, 05676; www.takumta.org.

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