Mary Anne (Moran) Kinsella died peacefully at her home in Fayetteville on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. She was 89. Born in Syracuse, Mary Anne was the daughter of James and Vanna Moran. In 1955, she married James P. Kinsella of Fayetteville. Her husband predeceased her in 1999.
Mary Anne attended Convent School in Syracuse. She was among the first students to attend and graduate from the then-newly opened LeMoyne College, where she received a bachelor’s degree in English. She subsequently attended and received a master’s degree in education from Syracuse University.
After graduating from LeMoyne, Mary Anne taught at the Minoa School in Minoa, which later was absorbed into the East Syracuse-Minoa School District. While teaching at Minoa, she met the fellow teacher who would become her husband, James P. Kinsella.
Mary Anne returned to teach in the late 1960s in what then had become the East Syracuse-Minoa School District, working in elementary schools including Park Hill and Heman Street before retiring in the 1990s.
She loved to travel, visiting friends who were in warm places during the long Syracuse winter. When her son moved to Cape Cod for work in 1983, she would visit him in the summers, where she was a devoted beachgoer.
Survivors include her son, James Peter Kinsella and daughter-in-law, Anne Kirby of Barnstable, MA; her sister-in-law, Dian Moran of Camillus; her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Daniel and Joan Kinsella of Fayetteville; and many nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces.
Calling hours are scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 23, at the Eaton-Tubbs Funeral Fayetteville Chapel, 7191 E. Genesee Street (Route 5,) Fayetteville.
A funeral mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Church, 400 Salt Springs St., Fayetteville. The funeral mass may be accessed through a LiveStream broadcast at https://icfayetteville.org/funerals/
A private burial service will be held at a future date.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her name to the Assumption Church Food Pantry, 808 N. Salina St., Syracuse, NY 13208 or Francis House, 108 Michaels Ave., Syracuse, NY 13208.
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