Nurse, cared for premature infants

Dorothy (Kirkwood) Milley McDaid, 83, of 65 Gormley Avenue, Portsmouth, formerly of Aquidneck Place, Portsmouth, died Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, at the Grand Islander Health Care Center after a long illness. She was the wife of the late Jack Milley and the late John McDaid.

Born in Fall River on Sept. 7, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Stephen P. and Elizabeth (Flood) Kirkwood.

Mrs. McDaid grew up in Portsmouth. She graduated from Rogers High School and the Newport Hospital School of Nursing and went on to her nursing career in New York's Kings County Hospital, where she spent more than 30 years caring for premature infants.

She met her first husband, Jack, in Newport, and she moved to New York City when he returned to a Naval Hospital there following World War II. After his death, she remained in New York and earned her BSN at St. John's University. In 1953, she met and married her second husband, John, who passed away in 1979.

After retiring, she moved back home to Portsmouth, where she was a communicant of St. Anthony's Church.

She leaves a son, John McDaid of Portsmouth; a daughter-in-law, Karen McDaid of Portsmouth, a grandson, Jack McDaid of Portsmouth, and several nieces and nephews. She was the sister of the late Arthur Kirkwood, Stephen B. "Buddy" Kirkwood and Rita (Kirkwood) Hoyt, and the grandmother of the late Maxwell McDaid.

Her funeral will be held on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at 10 a.m. in St. Anthony's Church, 2836 East Main Road, Portsmouth. Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery in Fall River.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Newport Hospital Birthing Center, 11 Friendship Street, Newport, RI, 02840.