Jean M. Brennan Topsham, Maine Jean M. Brennan , 79, died May 16, 2010. She lived in Topsham, Maine. She was a native of Providence, RI, where she met her husband of 37 years, Thomas J. Brennan, who predeceased her on Septemebr 16, 1992. A retired paralegal, she considered her four children her greatest accomplishment. The daughter of a school teacher and a mail carrier, Jean Marie Riley was born on July 12, 1930 to Madeline E. and William J. Riley; her only sibling, William, was born 15 months later. She graduated from St. Xavier Academy in Providence in 1948, and from the Katherine Gibbs School, also in Providence, in 1950, and quickly landed a legal secretary job at the city's top law firm, Edwards & Angell, now Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. She met her future husband Tom, a Providence College grad and aspiring salesman, after Mass one Sunday at St. Mary's Church on Broadway in Providence, the same church where they were married on June 4, 1955. They made their first home in Castleton, NY, and later moved to Clinton, a small town outside Utica, where they raised their four children until a job transfer for Tom led them to relocate to West Chester, PA. Before moving to Maine three years ago, Jean worked as a plaintiff personal injury paralegal at law firms in Media, PA, and Utica, NY. In the 1980s, she worked on behalf of Philadelphia Navy Yard workers dying of asbestos exposure. Clients praised her fierce advocacy skills and deep sense of fairness. In addition to her brother Bill and sister-in-law Ann, of Laurel, MD, she is survived by four children and seven grandchildren; daughters, Lisa, of Glen Ridge, NJ, and Michaela, of Ann Arbor, MI; sons, Thomas, of Yarmouth, ME, and David, of St. Johnsbury, VT; sons-in-law, Scott Raab and Peter Linebaugh; daughters-in-law, Charlotte and Jolene; grandaughters, Riley, Isabel, Molly and Fionnuala; and grandsons, Judah, Darby and Daniel. There will be a memorial mass at 10 a.m. on June 4 at St. Mary's Church, 538 Broadway in Providence, RI, and she will be buried next to Tom at St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Ann Arbor-based community health clinic Packard Health, 3174 Packard Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48108. Arrangements are in the care of the Brackett Funeral Home, Brunswick, Maine. Condolences can be expressed at www.brackettfuneralhome.com.