CATEGORY: Event TYPE: Obituary NOTE: ROSE SHAHEEN, 86, of Amity Street, a retired seamstress, died yesterday in St. Anne's Hospital.
Born in Fall River, a daughter of the late Joseph and Sabat (Kalil) Shaheen, she had lived on Quequechan Street for many years.
Miss Shaheen was a seamstress for the Tioga Mfg. Co. for 30 years, retiring in 1985. She was a parishioner of St. Anthony of the Desert Church.
She enjoyed knitting and playing cards.
She leaves two sisters, Lillian Ameen of Fall River and Adele Simon of Danbury, Conn., and a brother, George Shaheen of Norwood, Mass. She was the sister of the late Helen Sahady, Shaheen Shaheen and Maroon Shaheen.
The funeral will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Cherry Place Home of Waring-Sullivan, Ashton, Coughlin, Driscoll, 178 Winter St., with a funeral Mass at 10 in St. Anthony of the Desert Church, Eastern Avenue. Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery.