Submitted by the Family
CHATHAM, MASS. — Dr Pauline “Polly” Barbra Warren passed away unexpectedly on July 11, 2025, at the age of 92. She was born in Seekonk, Mass., on August 25, 1932. The daughter of Albert Francis Warren and Bertha P. Tivey Warren, she attended Rehoboth schools and later East Providence High School.
With her scintillating personality and movie star good looks, she began doing television commercials in Boston and Providence to promote her father’s business, Warren’s Turkey Farm, during the infancy of television in the 1950s and early 60s. She became an instant success, leading to her own cooking show and a stint as a newscaster and weather reporter. With her new celebrity status, she befriended the likes of Olympic gold medalist and professional athlete Jim Thorpe and was taught how to fly fish by Ted Williams, the “Splendid Splinter” of the Boston Red Sox.
Polly was proud of her Yankee heritage, being a relative of Richard Warren who came over on the Mayflower in 1620 and was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. She was a direct descendant of Dr Joseph Warren, a Founding Father and Revolutionary War soldier who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. She was also related to six US presidents.
Polly was a loving mother of two children and curtailed her earlier career to pursue a new one in the teaching profession, graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a master’s degree in education and psychology, and shortly thereafter a doctorate degree in psychology from Boston University. She worked as a teacher, guidance counselor and school psychologist in the Attleboro, Mass., school system for many years.
She was an avid antiques collector with a love of early Sandwich Glass and especially carved decoys. After retiring from teaching, she helped build her son Ed’s antique auction business, now known as Americana Auctions in Rehoboth, Mass. Polly was quite knowledgeable and enjoyed greeting customers and assisting in various ways during the auctions.
She is survived by her son, Edmond A. Warren Tessier, and her daughter, Susan Taylor, and her two grandchildren, Tessa and Jesse, as well as two great-grandchildren. Her son Edmond said, “I will never say in grief ‘I’m sorry she is gone,’ rather say in thankfulness, ‘I’m grateful that she was here.’”
