Award-winning rug hooker enjoyed golfing, painting, times with family

Published January 21, 2021

METHUEN — Mildred L. (Dalton) Lafferty, 90, of Methuen and formerly of North Reading, died at her home on Thursday, January 14, 2021. She was the beloved wife of the late William L. Lafferty Jr.

Born in Waltham on February 12, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Arthur E. and Helen Elizabeth (Thayer) Dalton. She attended school in North Reading and was a graduate of Reading High School, Class of 1948.

Mildred won awards for her rug hooking. She enjoyed playing golf with her husband Bill and she loved painting and crafts. Mildred especially loved parties and touring with friends and family.

Family members include her loving daughters, Lorraine Lafferty Farelli and her husband Robert, and Jo-Anne Lafferty Pratt; her son, Andrew Dalton Lafferty and his fiancé Christiana Lizardo; her brothers, Walter J. Dalton and his wife Joyce, the late Donald A. and Warren E. Dalton, and her late sister, Lillian H. Dalton Whitton and her late husband Ed; her sister-in-law, Jeanne Dalton; seven grandchildren, Kristan Herbst, Kerrie Macdonald and her husband Glenn, Frank Korn and his wife Amy, Amy Fleming and her husband David, George Keough, Kara Kantar and her husband Volkan and William Lafferty; eight great-grandchildren, Sydney and Benjamin Herbst, Andrew and Elise Fleming, Henry and Sadie Korn, and Charlotte and Bridget Macdonald.

Graveside services will be held on Saturday, January 23 at 11 a.m. at Riverside Cemetery in North Reading. Calling hours will be private. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in her memory to the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements are under the direction of the Croswell Funeral Home, 19 Bow Street, North Reading. To leave an online message of condolence, please visit: www.croswellfuneralhome.com