Audrey C. Hurley, a longtime resident of Milton, passed away on January 8, 2025, at the Neville Center in Cambridge. Born in Boston, she grew up in Dorchester in the Johnson family of five kids, James, Joan, Audrey, Edward and Robert during the Depression years. She was always surrounded by a warm family and this love of family continued her entire life when she started her own with her beloved husband, Timothy F. Hurley. She graduated from Hyde Park High School during the war years and went to work right away. Women were needed in the workforce in those days, and she was happy to play her part.

It was at the First National Bank of Boston where they were both employed after the war that she would meet her late husband, Timothy F. Hurley. Theirs was a love story that started with dancing and lasted for more than seventy years of marriage. She would raise her daughters Diane Juliano of Sudbury and Jayne Morgan of Melrose, and this was the job she most took pride in until she became a grandmother. She had high expectations for her children. She always made sure they knew what was most important and that it was love and caring for each other and everyone in the family. For many years, she nurtured us along with her nephew James Joyce of Foxboro who she cared for with the same love she showed her daughters.

She later returned to work as a Senior Account Clerk in the Boston School Department. She took pride in what she accomplished in this job, but most of all she took pride in the relationship she had with her Tim and with her daughters. The births of her four grandchildren, Audrey Becker, Edward Juliano, James Morgan, Diana Morgan, and then her seven great grandchildren, brought her joy. She shared that joy with all her family. She hosted many St. Patrick’s Day dinners that her sons-in-law Edward Juliano and Paul Morgan so loved. The Christmas Eves at the house on Rowe Street were legendary.

She loved to tell the family she was “the luckiest girl in the world” and to reflect on a story in the Dorchester Reporter many years before that said, “she was the prettiest girl in Dorchester.” She loved traveling with Tim and with her grandchildren. She was Nan to the grandchildren, but maybe Mame would have been a better name for her. She showered them with love, and they so enjoyed their time with AudandTim (One word, not two.) She was the irrepressible half of this pair.

She loved the Red Sox, her Church, and Democratic politics and she loved to dance with Tim. Here’s hoping they are dancing now. Funeral Services will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated to the Poor Clare Nuns of Boston, Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare, 590 Gay Street, Westwood, MA. poorclarenunsboston@gmail.com