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Evelyn E. Houck
Apr 8, 2013
Evelyn E. (Hanford) Houck died peacefully on April 8, 2013 at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Mass. after a brief illness, with her family close by. She was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 31, 1919 and lived in Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Creek, Michigan until moving to Concord, Mass. in 1954. She lived in Concord until retirement to South...
Rose Mary Mcmurtry
Apr 7, 2013
Rose Mary McMurtry, 97, of Dennis, formerly of Lincoln, died April 7th at Concord Healthcare in Concord. She was the beloved wife of the late G. Carleton McMurtry who died in 1972. Born in Boston on October 28, 1915 she was the daughter of the late Frederick W. and Mary A. (Rose) Meagher. She attended Secretarial School in Boston. During...
Kathleen A. Vecchio
Apr 7, 2013
Kathleen A. (Sheehan) Vecchio, 63, of Concord died Sunday, April 7, 2013 at Emerson Hospital in Concord. She was the beloved wife for 38 years of James J. Vecchio. Born in Marlborough, Mass. on August 13, 1949 she was the daughter of the late John E. and Laura (Valmus) Sheehan. She attended Rose Hawthorne Elementary School in Concord, graduated in...
Robert T. Sanford Jr.
Apr 7, 2013
Robert T. Sanford, Jr. of Concord Mass., formerly of Lexington, Harwich, and Burlington Mass., passed away on April 7, 2013. Funeral Service will be held Thursday April 11, 2013 at 1 pm at the Duvall Chapel, 80 Deaconess Road, Concord, MA, next to Emerson Hospital. The service will be followed by an interment at the Knoll, which is located approximately...
Ruth C. Casey
Apr 2, 2013
Ruth C. (Moore) Casey, 90, of Plymouth, formerly of Concord, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center in Quincy. She was the beloved wife of 53 years of the late Robert J. Casey who died in 1998. Born in Boston on January 26, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Henry L. and Catherine...
Thomas Allen Jones
Mar 29, 2013
Thomas Allen Jones, 77, of Chelmsford, MA, beloved husband and best friend of Suzanne (Wearly) Jones for 45 years, passed away on March 29, 2013 due to complications following surgery. Tom was born in Covington, KY on May 9, 1935 to Harmon and Myrtle Jones. He worked hard on the family farm, tending tobacco fields and raising sheep and cattle....
William Roy Cummings
Mar 25, 2013
Cummings, William R. - of Lincoln, MA and Pompano Beach, FL, formerly of Everett, MA, March 25. Beloved husband of 57 years of Palma (DiMinico) Cummings. Father of William R. Cummings Jr. of Lunenburg and Thomas R. Cummings of London, England. Grandfather of Lisa A. Cummings, Carrie L. Cummings and Kimberly M. Hayes. Brother of Walter Cummings and Marjorie DiCicco....
Wayne D. Mount
Mar 25, 2013
Wayne Mount, 85, Atmospheric Physicist Wayne Delano Mount, a pioneer in using chaos theory to predict the weather, and one of the foremost experts in remote probing of the atmosphere from space, died on March 25, 2013. He was 85. Born in West Allis, Wisconsin, on December 15, 1927, Wayne grew up on a dairy farm where he rode his...
Marion Boyd Dietzgen
Mar 19, 2013
Marion Boyd Dietzgen, (Peg) 91, of Cotuit, MA, died March 19, 2013. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 1, 1921 to Thomas Kenneth and Elizabeth Allbright Boyd and was raised in Winnetka where she attended The North Shore Country Day School. She attended Wellesley College for two years prior to her marriage to Theodore Donaldson (Ted). She eventually...
Michael A. Leclair
Mar 17, 2013
Michael A. LeClair, 56, of Billerica and North Andover, formerly of Concord died Sunday March 17, 2013 in North Andover. He was the devoted father of Kyle, Kara and Brian LeClair of Billerica and cherished son of Patricia LeClair of Concord and the late Roger LeClair. Born in Richland, Washington on February 27, 1957, he attended Concord, Mass. schools and...
Toni Angelakis
Mar 14, 2013
Toni (Staff) Angelakis, 81, of Concord, formerly of Lynn, died Thursday, March 14, 2013 at Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington. She was the wife of the late George L. Angelakis who died in 1988. Born in New York City, New York on March 16, 1931, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Penelope (Kostoulakos) Staff. She grew...
Cynthia E. (Shea) Peake
Mar 11, 2013
Cynthia Ellen (Shea) Peake of Suffield, Ct. formerly of Malden, Ma. March 11. Wife of the late Theodore Peake. Daughter of the late John and Helen Shea. Sister of Barbara and her husband Lawrence LaFreniere of Middleton, and the late John J. Shea. Also survived by several nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews. A memorial Mass will...
Dorris Marie Fairburn
Mar 8, 2013
Dorris Marie (Carter) Fairburn, of Concord, age 95, died March 8th. She was the wife of 62 years of George William Fairburn, who predeceased her by 48 days. She was the beloved mother of Doreen McCabe and husband Dennis, of Westford, and Janice Nickerson and husband Wayne, of Kingston; and much loved grandmother of Matthew Fairburn Carr and Holly Susan...
Henry J. Deroche
Mar 5, 2013
Henry J. DeRoche died Tuesday March 5, 2013 in Natick. He was born in Egmont Bay, Prince Edward Island Canada and moved to Chelsea as a youngster, where he grew up with his 5 brothers and sisters. In 1942 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in California as an airplane mechanic before being honorably discharged. After...
Sylvia Gold
Mar 3, 2013
Sylvia Gold (Rubinstein) was born November 10, 1923. Her parents, Joseph and Fannie (Botvinick) had come to the United States as teenagers. They first met on the boat from Russia. When her parents came to America they rejected religious tradition and embraced a politically leftist philosophy, which Sylvia continued to embrace throughout her life. Her identity was Jewish. Her religion...
Beth Eaton Hill
Mar 1, 2013
Beth (Eaton) Hill, 93, of Concord, MA died March 1, 2013 in Concord. Born in 1920 in Niskayuna, New York she was the daughter of John D. and Isabella (Duncan) Eaton. Her father, not a believer in higher education for women, offered her a chance to travel around the world rather than go to college. Beth chose, instead, to attend...
Florence M. Mead
Feb 28, 2013
Florence Mildred Mead, 84, of Billerica, formerly of Concord died Thursday February 28, 2013 in Burlington. Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on August 7, 1928 she was the daughter of the late Henry and Mildred Guyer. She attended Lebanon schools and was a graduate of Lebanon High School. From 1964 until 1982 she resided in Concord where her former husband...
Dr. Samuel P. Cowardin Iii
Feb 23, 2013
Dr. Samuel P. "Pen" Cowardin III, 91, of Concord, formerly of Southborough, died Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Rivercrest Nursing Home in Concord. He was the husband for 51 years of Marjorie (Cooley) Cowardin. He was born in Richmond, VA in 1921 to the late Dr. Samuel P. Cowardin, Jr. and Ruth (Brown) Cowardin. Pen graduated from the Lebanon...
Edward Thomas Smith
Feb 22, 2013
Edward Thomas Smith, of Carlisle, MA, formerly of Concord, MA and Hartford, CT, died Feb. 22, 2013 after a long illness in the presence of his devoted family. Ed was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Edward and Kathleen Smith on October 24, 1934. He attended the Cathedral of St. Joseph School and Hartford Public High School where he excelled in...
Rosemary Stewart
Feb 16, 2013
Rosemary (Ryan) Stewart, 86, of Concord, died Saturday Feb. 16, 2013 in Concord. She was the beloved wife of 48 years of the late Charles C. Stewart who died in 2001. Born in Paterson, New Jersey on May 12, 1926 she was the daughter of the late J. Phillip Ryan and Julia (Brophy) Ryan. She was a 1944 graduate of...
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