Mary Frances Matthews (Bucktrout Funeral Home)

Mary Frances Matthews nee Grech, age 98, passed away September 19, 2025. She resided at Dominion Village Senior Living in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Mary was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 10, 1926, to Calcedonio and Anna (nee Kryza) Grech. After her mother passed away in 1933, she spent her childhood in her father’s native country, Malta, with her paternal grandmother and four aunts. Unfortunately, World War II started before she could return to the United States. She was only able to return after the liberation Malta by Allied Forces in 1944. She traveled with a stop at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, spending an extended time recuperating from the deprivations of the daily bombings by the Germans and Italians and the food scarcitie

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