Nair Bastos Braga was 42 years old and resided in Marlborough Massachusetts for the past 21 years. She passed away August 11, 2023 at Tufts Medical Center after a seven year battle with lupus. She was born in Minas Gerais Brazil to Juvenal Marques and Adguimar Braga where she lived for her first 21 years of life. She leaves behind her husband Gilmar Ferreira and her daughters, Ana Carolina Silva 19 and Alice Ferreira 8, and a multitude of family and friends who will miss her dearly. She was a woman full of faith, joy and kindness that never allowed her diagnosis to set her back but rather used it as motivation to live everyday to its fullness. Her strength has blessed all those who have met her to be left with many memories of her happiness.