Helen Malik Boyle

Age 92
Bridgewater

Helen Malik Boyle, wife of 43 years to the late Hugh Francis Boyle, died March 10 surrounded by her family. Mrs. Boyle, a Bridgewater resident for many years, was employed at Ethicon retiring in 1984. A communicant of St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church in Bridgewater, where she was a member of the Prayer Shawl Ministry, the Golden Stewards and served as an Eucharistic Minister. Her hobbies included endless knitting, which she learned at the age of 10, reading two newspapers everyday, watching football on Sundays, especially her beloved Giants and then as the season ended, looking forward to cheering for Dam Yankees. For the last 2 ½ years, Mrs. Boyle lived with Karen and Mark, where she enjoyed sitting by the koi pond in warm weather listening to the waterfall and watching the fish. When her grandson Evan visited or called with tales of school, skateboarding, and snowboarding, BMX rides, his dogs and his interests in cars those were the times that made her days full. Her siblings Bernadine, John, Elizabeth and Martha predeceased her. Surviving are her daughters Karen Boyle married to Mark Horvath and Susan Zakovic her husband Gary, a grandson Evan Zakovic and step-granddaughters Alexis and Brittney Horvath. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 10am on Thursday, March 14, at St. Bernard Church, Bridgewater. Mausoleum Entombment to follow at St. Bernard Cemetery, Bridgewater. Visiting hours from 4pm-7pm on Wednesday, March 13, at the Cusick Funeral Home, Somerville