Born in
Montreal, Quebec, to Edward Mason, a physician, and Loretta O'Reilly, Dougherty studied at
The Study, a private girls' school, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and a Masters in
histology in 1950 from
McGill University. She did post-graduate studies at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in biophysics. Dougherty represented
Jacques-Cartier in the
National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1987. She died from
COVID-19 during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec. ==References==