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 John F. Corridan III
July 11, 2004
John F. Corridan III, 50, of Walnut Road, Holliston, died Sunday at home after a long battle with cancer.
His wife, the former Linda Bowler, is a native of Pittsfield.
Born in Chicopee on Sept. 6, 1953, son of John F. Corridan Jr. and Margaret Shea Corridan, he graduated from Cathedral High School in Springfield and from St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. He obtained his master's degree in criminal justice from American International College.
Mr. Corridan was chief operating officer of Alliance Health, a nonprofit health care company he helped co-found in Newton in 1999. Alliance now operates in eight states and generates revenues in excess of $100 million.
He also was a director of nonprofit health companies in North Carolina and Texas, and had worked for Olympus Healthcare Group as head of its hospital division and, before that, as CEO of New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn for Advantage Health.
He had started his career as a case worker with state Department of Youth Services and, in 1979, became executive assistant to its commissioner in Boston, and later head of its administration and financial activities. In 1987, he became assistant commissioner of the newly created Department of Mental Retardation, which he left in 1991 to become director of Middlesex County Hospital.
He coached youth basketball and was a member of the Holliston Youth Soccer Association board of directors, as well as an active member of the Holliston Lions Club. He had been a member of the board of the Massachusetts Hospital Association.
Besides his wife, he leaves two daughters, Elizabeth Corridan, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross, and Anna Corridan, at home, and a son, John F. Corridan IV, at home.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- Family and friends are invited to celebrate the life of John F. Corridan III, who died July 11, 2004, in a Funeral Mass at St. Mary's Church in Holliston on Friday, July 16, at 10.
Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery, Holliston. Calling hours will be tomorrow, July 14, at CORRIDAN FUNERAL HOME in Chicopee from 3 to 7 and again on Thursday, July 15, at CHESMORE FUNERAL HOME in Holliston from 3 to 8.
In lieu of flowers, the Corridan family asks that memorial contributions be sent to the Colon and Rectal Research and Education Fund at the Lahey Clinic, ATTN: David Schoetz, MD, 41 Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01805, or Metrowest Hospice, 85 Lincoln St., Framingham, MA 01702.
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