Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Cronin) Moylan. Of Brookline on December 5, 2019. Betty was born in 1932 at Mercy Hospital in New York City, the second of three children, to parents Anna McCarthy and Stephen Cronin, When she was four, the family moved to County Cork, where her father had bought a farm. There she attended the National School, learned Irish, and made her first holy communion. In 1939, her Mother's health, and the world situation prompted the family to return to New York, where she attended St. Pius School in the Bronx and later St. Jean's in Manhattan. The family spent their summers happily at Rockaway Beach. Betty earned her bachelor's degree in history at College Misericordia, and her master's in guidance at Marquette and Fordham. She worked as a UN Guide for two years, and later taught seventh grade at Massapequa Junior High on Long Island. She met Dan Moylan in Syracuse at the wedding of mutual friends, and married him a year later, moving to New England where Dan had taken a job with Raytheon. Three happy children were born in Hopkinton, and then another two in Sudbury, where they had built a new house. There she was active in the church and local politics, later working in advertising sales for the community newsletter. She supported Dan in his fife and drum activities, proudly carrying the flag for the Sudbury Ancients, the Menotomy Minutemen, and the Bostonia Allarum Companie. In 1997 the family moved to Brookline, enjoying available public transportation as well as walking access to shops, church, and health care. She suffered a stroke in May, which affected her language capabilities, but recovered to near normalcy. However her heart was weakend and she succumbed to heart failure in December. She leaves Dan, her loving husband of 62 years, as well as her well loved five children: Sean of Woodland, California; Stephen of San Jose, California; Patrick of Monument, Colorado; and Annie and Michael of Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as grandchildren Meaghen of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and Jack, Noah, Joshua, and Nathaniel of Monument, Colorado. Visiting hours will be held on Monday December 9th in the Bell-O'Dea Funeral Home, 376 Washington St., Brookline from 4:00 – 7:00. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday morning December 10th in St. Mary of the Assumption Church, 5 Linden Pl., Brookline at 11:00. Relatives and friends are kindly invited. Interment will follow in the Walnut Hills Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations in memory of Betty may be made to the Misericordia University.