Martha A. Wise Chattin ’63

Martha A. Wise Chattin ’63, of Gardner, Mass.; Feb. 13, of COVID. After earning a master’s degree in social work from Boston College, she embarked on a 20-year career providing care and counsel to people experiencing homelessness, mental illness, and developmental disability, as well as to prisoners, veterans, and the elderly. She enjoyed singing and piano playing and was a music teacher, an organist, and choir director at the Phillipston Congregational Church. For several years she worked with her husband at the Fernald School for the Developmentally Disabled, later named the Templeton Developmental Center, where they led a choir and Christian service for residents. She is survived by four sons and their spouses, eight grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.