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Mary Ellen Amberg died September 7, 2009. She was 78. Mary was born Sept. 6, 1931 to Margaret Helen and Ray M. Amberg at the University of Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn. She attended Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in public nursing. She married classmate H. Mikkel Kelly in February 1954. The couple moved to Albuquerque in 1961 and raised three children. Mary was president Junior League of Albuquerque in 1972-73. She worked for the Office of Senior Affairs for 14 years. She was director of Highland Senior Center from 1984 until 1990 when she became the first director of the Los Volcanes senior center on the West Mesa.She became president of the Southwest Society on Aging in 1989, and she was honored for her body of work when she was named MS Achievement Award Winner at the Dinner of Champions at the Albuquerque Country Club in 1993. She is survived by her brother John Amberg and his wife Poo Wyer of La Jolla, Calif.; son Mikkel Kelly and his wife Suzanne Kelly of Westminster, Colo.; daughter Ann Kelly and her husband John Neas of Denver, Colo.; son Thomas B. Kelly and his wife Maureen Keleher Kelly of Albuquerque, who now live in Johnston, Iowa; and grandchildren Jackson, Paul, Andrew, Joseph, Johanna and Julia, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. A Rosary will be 7:00 p.m. Friday, September 25, 2009 at the chapel at Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande Blvd. N.W. A funeral Mass will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Aquinas Newman Center, 1815 Las Lomas Road N.E.
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