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Honoring Lives: Obituaries and Tributes

E. Crawley Cooper

E. Crawley Cooper

Oct 25, 2014

Retired architect E. Crawley Cooper died on October 25, 2014 at the age of 81. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana; he and his surviving wife and childhood friend, Jane (Peek) Cooper had been married for nearly 58 years. Crawley graduated in architecture from both the University of Cincinnati (AIA Student Medal) and MIT (scholarship). In 1957, he was the...

Elena A. Spera

Elena A. Spera

Oct 24, 2014

Elena A. (Libertini) Spera, 88, of Concord, died Friday, October 24, 2014 at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley, in Littleton. She was the beloved wife for 48 years of the late Benjamin W. Spera. Born in East Cambridge on August 11, 1926 she was the daughter of the late Rocco and Esther Libertini. She attended Medford public schools and...

Howard M. Maher

Howard M. Maher

Oct 22, 2014

Howard M. "Howie" Maher, 78, of Concord, formerly of Lincoln, died Wednesday October 22, 2014 at his Concord home. He was the companion and friend of forty years of the late Ann (Farley) Rebillard. Born in Lincoln on December 19, 1935, he was the son of the late Raymond P. and Gertrude (Weeks) Maher. He attended Lincoln schools and was...

Godehard A. Guenther

Godehard A. Guenther

Oct 16, 2014

Godehard A. Guenther of Concord, MA, and Reno, NV, physicist and home electronics entrepreneur, died on October 16, 2014, at the Miriam Boyd Parlin Hospice Residence in Wayland, MA, following an inspiring battle with gastric cancer. Born on April 9, 1939, in Bochum, Germany, he demonstrated an early acumen for engineering, building transistor radios out of scrap metal during the...

Joseph Palumbo

Joseph Palumbo

Oct 15, 2014

Joseph Palumbo, 95 of Concord, died October 15, 2014 at his Concord home. He was the beloved husband of the late Aleksandra "Alice" (Soroka) Palumbo. Joe was Concord's oldest living farmer. Born in Watertown, New York on September 11, 1919, he was the son of the late Antonio and Francesca (Puccia) Palumbo. He came to Concord in 1925 to begin...

Richard B. Campobasso

Richard B. Campobasso

Oct 13, 2014

Richard B. Campobasso, 67, a lifelong Lincoln resident, died Monday October 13, 2014 in Natick. He was the beloved husband of LouAnn (Hatch) Campobasso. Born in Waltham on September 3, 1947 he was the son of the late Anthony B. and Dora M. (Iannuzzo) Campobasso. He attended Lincoln schools and was a 1965 graduate of Lincoln-Sudbury High School. During the...

Doris Ann Carr

Doris Ann Carr

Oct 2, 2014

Doris Ann (Park) Carr, 90, a resident of Concord died Thursday Oct. 2, 2014 in Concord. She was the beloved wife of 62 years of the late Arthur L. Carr and mother of Robert E. Carr and his wife Nancy of Concord and Nancy A. Robinson and her husband Arthur of Dracut. She was also the grandmother of Robert Carr...

Giovanni "John" Cucinotta

Giovanni "John" Cucinotta

Oct 2, 2014

Giovanni "John" Cucinotta, 89, of Concord, died Thursday, October 2nd at his Concord home. He was the beloved husband for fifty-three years of Mary (Giocobbe) Cucinotta. Born in Messina, Sicily, Italy on June 7, 1925 he was the son of the late John and Anna Cucinotta. Mr. Cucinotta attended schools in Italy and arrived in the United States on July...

Richard M. Fereshetian

Richard M. Fereshetian

Sep 29, 2014

Richard Fereshetian, 92 of Carlisle, formerly of Concord, MA passed away on Sept. 29, at Emerson Hospital Hospice, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was the loving husband of Helen Craig Fereshetian He is survived by his wife Helen , and 4 daughters, Wendy Fereshetian of Nantucket , MA; Pam and David Ziehler of Carlisle, MA; Sandy...

Jean M. King

Jean M. King

Sep 28, 2014

Jean M. (Blakeney) King, 86, of Concord died Sunday September 28, 2014 in Littleton. Born in Newton of July 27. 1928 she was the daughter of the late John W. and Sadie M. (Wing) Blakeney. She attended St. Jean L'evangelist parochial school in Newton, graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Newton Centre in 1946, and received a Bachelor of...

George Maccormack

George Maccormack

Sep 27, 2014

George F. MacCormack, 78, of Carlisle, formerly of West Newbury and Newton, died Saturday, September 27, 2014 at Lahey Hospital in Burlington. He was the beloved husband for forty-five years of Yvonne (Tobin) MacCormack. Born in Boston on January 4, 1936 he was the son of the late Hugh Douglas and Mary (MacDonald) MacCormack. He attended Our Lady's Parochial schools...

Elliot Ring

Elliot Ring

Sep 27, 2014

Elliot Ring, retired Chief Engineer of the Raytheon Company, died Saturday, September 27, 2014 at his Concord home. He was born in Manhattan, N.Y., of immigrant parents and lived most of his youth in the Bronx. In his teen years he became fascinated with mechanical drawing and a friend introduced him to drafting, giving him the tools. He frequented the...

John W. Walton

John W. Walton

Sep 24, 2014

Jack (a.k.a. John Wesley) Walton departed this world unexpectedly on Wednesday, September 24 at his apartment in Concord, MA. His permanent home was in Oak Bluffs, MA where he enjoyed entertaining guests and relaxing on island time. He spent his childhood in Romansville, PA where he still frequented to visit family and purchase giant quantities of hoagies from the Italian...

John J. Arena, Sr.

John J. Arena, Sr.

Sep 22, 2014

CONCORD – John J. Arena, Sr., 87, the second-generation owner and operator of Arena Farms and a lifelong Concord resident died peacefully Monday, September 22nd surrounded by his loving family. He was the beloved husband for 61 years of Josephine T. "Bobbie" (Amendolia) Arena. Born in Concord on July 26, 1927 he was the son of the late Natale Sr....

Peter J. O'Malley Jr.

Peter J. O'Malley Jr.

Sep 16, 2014

Peter J. O'Malley, Jr. 89, passed away on September 16, 2014. He was the son of the late Peter J. O'Malley and Mary (Monagle) O'Malley. Devoted husband of the late Mary T. (Lawton) O'Malley. Beloved father of Peter C. O'Malley of Santa Cruz, CA, Michael R. O'Malley and his wife Sharlet Trilling of Arlington, MA, Timothy J. O'Malley and his...

Marillyn Fairhurst De Mott

Marillyn Fairhurst De Mott

Sep 14, 2014

Marillyn (Fairhurst) De Mott, 85, of Carlisle died Sunday September 14, 2014 in Concord. She was the wife of 62 years of the late James Mitchell De Mott who died in November, 2013. Born in New Jersey on April 16, 1929 she was the daughter of Thomas C. and Lillian Fairhurst. She attended schools in New Jersey and was a...

Marianne Povell Mellnick

Marianne Povell Mellnick

Sep 13, 2014

Marianne Povell Mellnick died in Mass General Hospital on September 13 at the age of 69 after having been struck by lightning one week earlier. Marianne was the daughter of the late Samuel and Marian Povell. She was born in New York City; grew up in Pittsfield, MA; and lived in Concord, MA for the past 41 years. She leaves...

Stephen H. Brown

Stephen H. Brown

Sep 6, 2014

Stephen H. Brown, of Chelmsford, formerly of Wellesley, died Sept. 6, 2014. He was the dear husband of 33 years of Judy M. Cohn and father of Andrew H. Brown of Newburyport and Katherine D. Brown of Boston. Also survived by his brother Will S. Brown III of Raleigh, NC. and by many dear brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law and nieces and...

Loretta Jane Sheehan

Loretta Jane Sheehan

Aug 29, 2014

Loretta Jane Sheehan, 94, of Concord, MA died Friday, August 29, 2014 in Concord. Born in Concord on November 20, 1919, she was the daughter of the late John J. Sheehan, Sr. and Margaret (Toomey) Sheehan. She attended Concord Public Schools, graduated from Concord High School in 1937 and Radcliffe College in 1941. For thirty-two years, Ms. Sheehan worked for...

Dr. Evelyn Lacson Ramos

Dr. Evelyn Lacson Ramos

Aug 24, 2014

Dr. Evelyn Ramos, 87, of Concord, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 at Emerson Hospital. She was the wife of the late Pol Ramos.Born in Manila, Philippines on November 16, 1926 she was the daughter of Gaspar Lacson and Victoria Manahan. As a teenager she survived World War II. She was a graduate of Arellano University in Arts and Sciences and...

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