Debbie Rumble Flanagan

Profile Updated: November 1, 2025
Residing In: cohasset, MA USA
Spouse/Partner: John Flanagan
Children: Josh Flanagan, MD
Molly Flanagan Murphy
Occupation/Interests: financial advisor (retired); golf, tennis, skiing, yoga, and hiking
Additional residence:

VeroBeach Florida - Sea Oaks

Together how long?

44 years

Grandchildren:

John Joseph Flanagan IV ( called "JJ")
Callan Murphy
Maeve Murphy
Will Murphy
Connor Flanagan

Siblings and where they live:

Ray Rumble, Atlanta, GA
Rosemary Rumble Ridal, N. Canton, OH
Ed Rumble Jr, Poland OH

Where did you go to grade school?

Glenwood?

Teacher(s) you enjoyed:

Mr Dykins

What college(s) did you attend?

Cornell University; BA, MBA also at Cornell

What were some of your jobs and positions held?

First job after finishing my MBA was at Allied Chemical in a program developed to train potential executive leaders by hiring MBA's from top B. Schools. I was the only woman out of 10 MBA's in the country hired. My stint at Allied included working in their textile business on 7th Ave. in NYC, evaluating the viability of the coal and coke operations in WV. and leading marketing research for new products for a chemical they produced.
Took maternity leave when my first child was born, and then decided to stay home until the kids were in Middle School. I then worked at BCBS as head of the credentialing unit and later head of the Small Business group.Retired again till the kids grew up and then began a career as a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones until retiring 4 years ago.

Past and/or Present activities/organizations:

I have been active in the churches we have attended in NJ and MA. I have also led women's Bible studies for over 40 years, both in my home and as the Director of Women's Ministry at my church in NJ and MA.
Outside of church activities I have been involved with teaching aerobics in my younger years, fund-raising and volunteering for a number of non-profit entities in our town, writing a blog, and my book group.

Proud moments:

I am very proud of my children who have turned out to be lovely, kind and thoughtful adults and are raising lovely grandkids.
But right now I'm I'm bragging about my son Josh, who wasqualified for the xTerra World Championship in Hawaii. It is a very difficult triathlon that is limited to 200 professional athletes and 200 amateurs from the world. Josh qualified as one of those 200 amateurs and came in the 4th in his age group for the race.

What is your favorite listening music these days?

classical

What's on your bucket list?

African safari. We have traveled extensively, and have been in N. Africa, but never on a safari! Last item on my bucket list.

Comments:

We are retired now and are Florida residents in Vero Beach in a tennis community call Sea Oaks. We also have a ski house in Jackson, NH on Black Mountain and are in our Cohasset, MA house in the summer/fall.
I don't ski anymore but the kids and grandkids love to ski and it is only 3 hours from our home in Cohasset were are Daughter Molly who is a teacher and her family live a 5 minute drive to our house. We are blessed.
Son Josh and his wife are having their 3rd child in 3 months. Josh is a doctor at a hospital Alton, New Hamshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. It is a beautiful place in the fall in the mountains.

School Story:

I never finished my high school in Boardman! My parents moved to Liberty in the end of the last semester of school. They bought me a car to drive to Boardman, buch it was a drag to get from Liberty to Boardman. So I started skipping class!
Whoops.....,the school called my parents asking why I am not showing up! So I lost my car and finished in Liberty High Shcool for the end of my high school.
Someone from Boardman who I can't remember his name bet me I could not get into a Ivy League college. At that point, Cornell was the only Ivy that accepted women in the Arts and Science college, so I applied there. Suprise I got in! It was a wonderful education with people from all the world. I stayed for a MBA degree and I met my husband, John, who worked as a trader on the NY exchange on Broadway.

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Last summer trip to Nantucket with our grand babies! What fun, our oldest son Josh was doing the Nantucket triathlon and rented the house for a great family reunion. Josh is an elite triathlete (the means he races against the pros but has no sponsor) . He came 4th in his age group in a world extreme triatholon in Hawaii last winter - of course we had to go see him race and stay a for a week!

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Happy Birthday! Hope you were ok with the terrible storm. We have bought a place in Vero Beach and will be there for the winter - would love to see if we could meet halfway perhaps, or if you are ever on the Atlantic side.

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So sorry to say I won’t make the reunion. I am in a clinical trial for an ALZ drug and just had the first infusion. I’m not sure how I will react to the treatment so my husband and I have decided not to do the very long car ride from Boston. Fortunately I am being treated by a consortium made up of Harvard Medical, MIT and Brigham And Women’s Hospital doctors and scientists. It is the leading research group in the world for ALZ so I am very fortunate to be able to be one of their human guinea pigs. This is the last trial to be done before the drug can go out to the public. There is no treatment or cure for Alzheimers at this point so I would appreciate prayers! I have a strong faith in God and am at peace with what is going on. I have a website www.debsdevotionals.com if you are interested in some of my musings on faith.

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