Visitation: TUESDAY: 3-7 pm at The Dietrich Funeral Home, Inc., 2480 Kensington Ave., Amherst
Service: WEDNESDAY: A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 amat St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church. SWEENEY – Nina
(nee Dorey)
December 7, 2013, age 102, loving
wife of the late Arthur E. Sweeney; loving
mother of Holly (Randy Dievendorf)
Sweeney, Candee (Jerry Wilson)
Sweeney; loving grandmother of Laura
(Roger) Mazikowski, Otis Montgomery,
Rachel Mazikowski, Geoffrey Montgomery,
Keith Montgomery and the late
Roger Mazikowski; great-grandmother
of Eliza, Connor, Paige, Zachary and
Sophia; grandmother-in-law of Emily
Mazikowski; predeceased by two sisters
and three brothers; also survived
by nieces and nephews. Friends may
call Tuesday 3-7 PM at the DIETRICH
FUNERAL HOME, 2480 Kensington.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be
celebrated on Wednesday at 9:30 AM
at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church, 157
Cleveland Dr., Cheektowaga. Please
assemble at church. Flowers gratefully
declined. Memorials made to
Beechwood Continuing Care. Online
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Nov. 17, 1911 – Dec. 7, 2013 Nina Sweeney, of Amherst, a nurse and physical therapist, died Saturday in Beechwood Continuing Care, Getzville. She was 102. Mrs. Sweeney was director of physical therapy at the Crippled Children’s Guild during the polio epidemic of the early 1940s. She later was director of physical therapy at Niagara Frontier Rehabilitation Center and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Western New York for 18 years. Born in Madison, Wis., one of six children, the former Nina Dorey was a graduate of Gowanda High School, the Buffalo General Hospital School of Nursing and the University of Buffalo. She also trained in London with Drs. Karel and Berta Bobath, originators of a rehab technique for adult stroke victims and children with cerebral palsy, in neuro-development treatment of infants. She established the first infant program at United Cerebral Palsy. She was a life member of the Buffalo General Hospital Alumni Association and the American Physical Therapy Association. She was a member of the St. Aloysius Senior Citizens. Her husband, Arthur E., died in 1964. Survivors include two daughters, Holly and Candee. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Wedneday in St. Aloysius Gonzaga Catholic Church, 157 Cleveland Drive, Cheektowaga.