Agnes Mary “Aggie” Kilduff of Salem died on September 16, 2026 with her family around her. She was 86.
She was born Agnes Mary Higgins on June 29, 1940 and grew up in Peabody in a large Irish family. She attended St. John’s Parochial School and later worked at Daniel Low and Co. and at Collins Middle School in Salem. She and her husband, Donald Kilduff, were married 48 years; he died before her.
She leaves her children, Patti Titus of Newmarket, N.H., Donald Kilduff of Salem and Erin Rule of Marblehead, and their spouses; eight grandchildren, Katie Deery, Stephen Chambers, Hannah Dukeman, Megan Kilduff, Abbey Kilduff, Ethan Rule, Michael Lockard and Emerson Rule; four great-grandchildren, Makayla and Alyssa Deery, Michael Lockard Jr. and Riley Jade Chambers; and many nieces and nephews.
A funeral Mass is Monday, September 28 at 11 a.m. at St. Anne Parish, 292 Jefferson Avenue, Salem, with burial at St. Mary’s Cemetery, 226 North Street, Salem. Arrangements are by the Murphy Funeral Home, Salem. The family suggests donations to Kaplan Family Hospice House, 78 Liberty Street, Danvers.
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