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12 Globe South Natalie Haley, 52; pharmacy worker WALPOLE Natalie J. (Poor) Haley, 52, a pharmacy technician, died March 24 at the Caritas Norwood Hospital. Mrs. Haley was born in Nashua, N.H. She graduated from Westwood High School in 1969, and attended Salem State College.

She moved to East Walpole 22 years ago from Belmont. She was a member of the Union Congregational Church in East Walpole, where she served on many committees. Mrs. Haley recently was working at a CVS store in Medway. She leaves a husband, Thomas N.

of Walpole; a father, Roger A. Poor of Danvers; two daughters, Melanie G. of Newport, R.I., and Eileen of East Walpole; a son, Peter of East Walpole; a sister, Elizabeth Jordan of Danvers; a brother, Roger A. Poor Jr. of Beverly; and two nephews.

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Mrs. Harwood was born in Boston. She graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Milton in 1948, and Boston Teacher's College in 1952. She was a third-grade teacher at the Blessed Sacrament School in Walpole for more than 18 years until her retirement in 1991. She also was a volunteer for the Blessed sed Sacrament Church, teaching CCD classes and serving as a Eucharistic minister.

She also was a Girl Scout leader. She leaves three daughters, Kathleen R. Hutchinson of Norfolk, Virginia A. Hummel of Perkasie, and Ruth M. McDonough of Walpole; three sons, Robert F.

Jr. of Mansfield, Richard J. of Plainville, and Christopher M. of Fairbanks, Alaska; and 12 grandchildren. Irene Kelley, 79; was a receptionist HANSON Irene M.

(Carpenter) Kelley, 79, a retired receptionist, died March 26 at the Bay Path Nursing Home in Duxbury after a long illness. Mrs. Kelley was born in Woodsville, N.H. She was raised in Dorchester and educated at Randolph High School. She had been a resident of the Hanson area for the past 55 years.

She worked at the Barbour Welt Co. in Brockton until her retirement. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Hanson and was a former member of the Hanson Democratic Town Committee. Mrs. Kelley leaves a husband, Clifford E.

of Hanson; two daughters, Karen Kelly-Bouchard of Montpelier, and Joan Donovan of Pembroke; a brother, Robert Grady of Clinton; four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Bettina Holbrook, retired librarian WEYMOUTH Bettina (Jones) "Betty" Holbrook, 88, a former librarian, died March 27 at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. Mrs. Holbrook was born in Hull and grew up in Plymouth. She lived in Buffalo and in Wethersfield, in the 1940s, and moved to Weymouth in 1950.

Thomas and Gloria Sullivan, devoted pair By David Auguste GLOBE CORRESPONDENT BRAINTREE Just 11 days after the death of her husband, Gloria Grassa English Sullivan, a retired special education teacher, died March 31 at a family home in Falmouth from cancer. She was 77. Her husband, Thomas F. Sullivan a World War II veteran and retired Boston police officer, died from respiratory arrest March 20 at Falmouth Hospital. He was 78.

The couple met in Braintree, where they had lived on the same street. At the time, Mrs. Sullivan was married to Luciano English, and Mr. Sullivan had a wife, Mary. The families began to spend time together, and after Luciano and Mary died in the 1980s, the relationship blossomed between Gloria and Tom, family members said.

"The two were married for 14 years and did almost everything together," said Anne English of Falmouth, Mrs. Sullivan's daughter-in-law. "He was very easygoing, loved to laugh, and never asked for a lot; he was a real regular Joe," said Mr. Sullivan's son Michael, who lives in Milton. "She was a very strong woman, even in her illness, she was his caretaker for years.

She was chronically ill, but she fought it," said Anne English. Mrs. Sullivan was born in Dorchester. She worked as a special needs assistant at Braintree High School until her retirement in 1989. She also worked for the Raytheon Co.

in Boston. She graduated from Plymouth High School in 1932 and from the Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters in 1936. She worked as a librarian at the Abigail Adams School and the Homestead School in Weymouth, and at the East Weymouth branch library from 1961 to 1972. A family photograph shows Gloria Grassa English and Thomas Sullivan, who died just 11 days apart. "She loved to go ballroom dancing along with Tom," said Anne English.

"She also enjoyed tenpin bowling at the alleys in Braintree. "Due to their failing health, we had to move from Bourne to Falmouth to add an in-law suite to the house to take care of them," said English. The couple would travel from Sarasota, to Braintree or Falmouth to receive medical attention. Mr. Sullivan was born in Boston and educated through Boston public schools.

He lived in South Boston before moving to Braintree in 1973. During World War II, he was a private with the 19th Infantry, serving in the Pacific Theater of Operations. He was involved in the invasions of Luzon and New Guinea during the liberation of the Philippines, his son said. "After the war, he came back to Boston and joined the police force, serving at Station 5 in Hyde Park," said Michael Sullivan. Detective Mary McInness, with the Bureau of Field Services at Boston police headquarters, said Mr.

Sullivan was appointed to the Division 17 police force in West Roxbury in 1950 and served in the Roxbury area and the South End. He retired in 1979 She was a member of the Pi Kappa Epsilon Society at BU, an active member of the Weymouth Garden Club, and a 52-year member of the First Church in Weymouth, where she was an elder deaconness, a former president of the Ladies Benevolent Society, and a Couple seeks permit for a farm stand By Christine Wallgren GLOBE CORRESPONDENT HALIFAX Theresa and William Nessralla plan to ask the Zoning Board of Appeals tomorrow to allow them to return, at least on a small scale, to the occupation they love best: selling fruit and vegetables from a farm stand at Routes 106 and 58. The couple has requested a special permit allowing a 20 by 40 feet stand and 1 two greenhouses to be built on the family-owned property at 320 Monponsett near the major crossroad. If they secure the permit, they plan to open for business by next month. While the couple hopes past Dining Out NEW DAILY SPECIALS! WEDNESDAY GOLDEN FRIED CLAM DINNER Fresh Chatham soft shelled clams.

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Mr. Sullivan also enjoyed watching the Patriots and the Red Sox, specifically Ted Williams in his generation and Nomar Garciaparra today. Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, the St. Thomas More Church in Braintree and the Veterans of Foreign Wars of West Roxbury.

"They were caring and loving, but not a sweet gooey couple, who were both dedicated to their families," said English. In addition to Michael, Mr. Sullivan leaves two sons, Thomas F. of Tewksbury and Robert P. of Braintree; and four sisters, Ann Dinnan of Sarasota, Mary Guilfoyle of Marshfield, Gertrude Craig of Hull and Rose of South Hadley.

Mrs. Sullivan leaves two sons, Louis English of Braintree and Glenn English of Falmouth; a daughter, Donna Lund of Marshfield; and a sister, Josephine Parsons of Braintree. The Sullivans also leave nine grandchildren and a great-grandchild. cochairwoman of the Antiquers Club. She and her husband, Wesley also served as cochairs of the church's Couples Club.

In addition to her husband, she leaves a son, David of South Weymouth. Compiled by David Auguste stand rifts with the town will not affect the permit request, a recent denial by the selectmen to allow the sale of flowers from their yard on Easter weekend does not bode well for the success of the special permit application now pending before the zoning board. From the mid-1960s until 1997, the Nessralla farm was a well-known landmark, with its rolling acres of crops and flourishing farm stand at the town's main junction. In 1997, the family sold 25 acres to Wal-Mart for $1.5 million, getting rid of the crops and the stand and keeping a single acre where the home of patriarch Abdu Nessralla was located. "I know a lot of people in town weren't happy that Wal-Mart was going in," Theresa Nessralla said.

"But what are you going to do? The town is growing, and now there is going to be a grocery store. There are a lot of new people in town now." When the family farm was sold, the younger generation of Nessrallas set off on their own. Abdu a Plympton resident, started his own landscaping business and Michael Nessralla went into commercial cleaning. William Nessralla, however, did some landscaping on his own but mostly stayed and helped Abdu Sr. run a small farm stand next to the family home.

The zoning board, when it issued the permit for the stand, stipulated the permit could not pass to, any new owners. When William Nessralla bought the operation from his father in the summer of 2000, he failed to apply for a new special permit. It came to the attention of the zoning board when Nessralla submitted a proposal to significantly expand the business that November. William Nessralla backed off his expansion request and instead applied for the necessary permit to run the business as his father had done. But the zoning board denied that request and shut Nessralla down in February 2001.

Reasons given included heavy traffic at the Theresa Nessralla and her family want to build a farm stand on this parcel near the Wal-Mart in Halifax. GLOBE STAFF HERDE made it difficult for motorists to intersection, lack of adequate parking on the lot, and a history of violations by the Nessralla family. Zoning board members said the Nessrallas had been told their greenhouse was too close to a property line but had failed to move it; they built an arbor with no building permit or necessary permission from the zoning board; and they added a refrigeration unit without zoning board permission. Chairwoman Annette MacDonald said her board had originally granted the permit to Abdu Nessralla with the understanding the operation would be more of a hobby than a business. It had grown much larger than her board had envisioned, with the business use far outbalancing the residential use.

William Nessralla, who had bought more than $20,000 in plantings for the 2001 growing season, leased the former Ray's Florist property on Route 106 just over the Bridgewater line. He and Theresa Nessralla opened for business there in April of that year but shut down in June due to lack of business and high expenses. Theresa Nessralla said the Bridgewater lot had little parking, and the high-speed traffic there made it difficult for motorists to stop. "The whole back of the building was flooding, and the bills were much higher than we had thought," she said. "It just died in June.

We took the houseplants but left everything that was outside. We were selling the plants at a yard sale Routes 106 and but the town put a stop to that, too." Once a special permit is denied, an applicant must wait two years to reapply. That deadline has now passed, and the Nessrallas hope the zoning board will be receptive to their new plan. The stand in this plan is considerably larger than the one previously on the site. Two smaller greenhouses would take the place of the single, large one.

This time, the Nessrallas have made provision for adequate parking on the lot, identifying 25 spaces on their plan, a number that meets the town's parking requirement. Building Inspector Tom Millias said the plan looks fairly solid to him. "The plan appears OK on paper, but it's by special permit only in the business district, so it's up to the Zoning Board of Appeals," he said. Zoning board members are reserving comment until after the hearing Monday. "I want to wait and see what's presented and what they have to say, and then I'll go from there," said member Jean Reilly.

"I can't give an opinion until I hear the plan." Theresa Nessralla hopes the board will react favorably, and she promises the project will improve the looks of the intersection. "We're going to power-wash the house and do some repainting and landscaping," she said. "It will look beautiful." While the family no longer owns or leases land they farm, Theresa Nessralla said would love to start farming again, along with running the stand. "We miss it," she said. "We've been married almost 22 years.

I worked on the farm, and it became part of me. I love to do it. And my husband, it's in his blood." 12 S1 4.