Adeline Rose Crave of Wareham, a long-time Provincetown resident, died on July 6, 2021 at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. She was 86.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on Sept. 24, 1934, she was the daughter of the late Angelo and Lillian McAdams Pesce.

Soon after moving to Provincetown in the mid-1940s, she went to a carnival with June and Anthony Martin, who remained lifelong friends. There she met her late husband, Isadore. They married in 1947.

She was a talented needlework crafter. She knitted, sewed quilts, and made dresses for girls celebrating their first communion. She taught those skills at the community center, where over time the kids she taught came to call her “Mom.”

Over the years she held many jobs: she packed fish at the cold storage facility on MacMillan Pier, served as a chambermaid at the former Hank and Arnold’s on the corner of Pearl and Commercial streets, and worked at Hubert’s Restaurant and at the Stephen Charles Leather Co.

Despite that heavy and varied workload, she also volunteered with the Campfire Girls and the Girl Scouts. She earned many certificates documenting her work over many years with the local Civil Defense agency, the first responders of the time. She was also a member of the Portuguese-American Civic League and a communicant at St. Peter the Apostle Church.

Her children remember her great sense of humor and especially how she would participate in all their play, from jumping rope and sledding to ice skating; she was always in the middle of the fun, they said.

Adeline leaves a son, Frank Crave of Beckett, and a daughter, Almeida Pesce of Chattanooga, Tenn. She also leaves five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Her husband of 50 years, Isadore Crave, died in 1997.

Family and friends are invited to visiting hours on Monday, July 19 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Gately Funeral Home, 94 Harry Kemp Way, Provincetown. A Funeral Mass will follow at 11 a.m. at St. Peter the Apostle Church, 11 Prince St., Provincetown.

She will be buried next to Isadore, her daughter, Adeline Mary, and her mother, Lillian McAdams, in St. Peter’s Cemetery following the Mass.

To share a memory or leave an online condolence for the family, visit gatelyfuneralservice.com.