Ellen Daly, 60

• Nickname: Aunt Ellen
• Added: 04-08-2026
• Died: Jul 30th, 1996

• Hometown: Westfield, MA
• Occupation: Professor of Nursing

About Ellen: Ellen Daly is my aunt, my mother's younger sister. Aunt Ellen was strikingly beautiful, brilliant, very energetic and very hard working. Her life was an incredible triumph over adversity. Aunt Ellen's mother died when she was only 4 years old, and then her father died when she was 17. There were 7 kids in their family, and those kids stuck together through thick and thin and pulled each other through. At the time of her father's death, Aunt Ellen had two younger brothers who were both 13, and she helped to raise them to adulthood. She also entered nurse's training at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MA. That was the start of her lifelong career as a nurse. She would eventually become head nurse at Beth Israel Hospital, and then a Professor of Nursing at Northeastern University. We never understood how successful she was in her career until after she died, because she never talked about it. All she ever relayed to us about her very successful career was that she was a college professor, although we learned later that there was far more to it than that. Aunt Ellen loved to tell us funny stories about funny things that happened when she worked as a nurse, and she would have us rolling around on the floor laughing. She was and still is so beautiful, both inside and out. more... less...