Ann Bresnahan

LEOMINSTER -- The Julie Country Day School held parent-teacher conferences Monday, an event stay-at-home mother Ann Bresnahan never failed to attend.

Teachers -- who were used to seeing Bresnahan's familiar, smiling face as she dropped off her 10-year-old daughter Margaret -- instead prayed for the Fitchburg woman Monday morning.

Bresnahan, 55, of 679 High Rock Road, Fitchburg, was pronounced dead at the scene of a three-car accident on I-190 Saturday evening.

The school held a prayer service in her memory early Monday morning.

They also prayed for Bresnahan's four orphaned children -- her three teenage sons Patrick, Michael and Kevin also graduated from the school.
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Nugent remembered Ann Bresnahan as a constant giver, who would do anything for her children.
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"She loved her children to pieces," Nugent said Monday afternoon of Ann Bresnahan.
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"Ann never missed a concert, a basketball game, teacher conferences.Every day you saw her. ...She was a wonderful volunteer, who would never say no. ...Both John and Ann served a greater purpose."

Bresnahan had just finished watching her son's football game at Portsmouth Abbey School, a private school in Portsmouth, R.I., and was going to another son's St. Bernard's High School game when the accident happened.

Police said Bresnahan was driving slowly -- and may even have been stopped -- in the left travel lane of I-190 North in West Boylston when a tractor-trailer collided with her GMC Suburban, sending her vehicle spinning into another car.

Bresnahan was not wearing a seat belt.

Police continued to investigate the crash Monday, and no charges had been filed, according to the State Police.

Bresnahan, who grew up in Newton, is a 1972 graduate of Boston College.She taught English at Everett High School for 10 years before becoming a stay-at-home mother.

She resided in Fitchburg for 20 years.