Molly Matson, 88, died at home on Oct. 5.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she was the daughter of Elsa Zuern and John C. Hoffman. As a teen she wrote to the jazz magazine Metronome and offered to be their Cleveland correspondent. She soon received a press pass which allowed her to meet Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and others. Little did the magazine know, she was 16 and had to have her parents accompany her to the few venues she could enter.

During WWII she worked in the public relations department at Cleveland’s Crile General Hospital for wounded soldiers. She was a graduate of the University of Michigan, Rutgers University library school, and held a Master’s in English from Boston College.  She loved her reference work with students and colleagues at Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she was employed for 25 years.

A resident of Duxbury for 31 years, Ms. Matson was past chair of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society’s Library and Archives committee and relished the readings and discussions at the Duxbury Free Library’s Tuesday Night Book Club.

She was the wife of the late Kenneth Matson; mother of Lucy Hudson and her husband Peter of Germantown, MD, Kate Matson and her husband Mark Harvey of Arlington and Martha Matson and her husband Cove Britton of Santa Cruz, CA; grandmother to Catherine Matson-Grosser, James Hudson, Nora, Mae, and Eve Britton.

A celebration of life service will be held mid-November.