Peter Booth Nichol
Feb 6, 2022
Peter Booth Nichol, age 59, died at home on February 6th after a 19-month battle with glioblastoma. He was beloved in his community as a teacher, neighbor, friend, activist, husband, and father. He was guided in all his actions by a deeply held certainty in the interconnectedness of all people and the planet. From this belief grew a commitment to...
Richard W. Wright
Feb 4, 2022
FORT MYERS - Richard W. Wright, 88, died on February 4, 2022. He was born October 16, 1933, in Huntington, West Virginia, the son of Leo and Marie (Moruney) Wright. After serving in the United States Army, Richard graduated from Marshall University, Class of 1957, and was married to the love of his life, Avis U. Joseph, for 64 years....
Sally Smith Cross
Feb 2, 2022
Sally Smith Cross died on February 2 in Concord, MA. Born in 1929 in New York, the daughter of F. Harold Smith and Pauline V. Curtiss, she rapidly developed a broad affection for any person who traversed her path: her city and country neighbors, her classmates at The Chapin School and Vassar College (1951), and her colleagues in the administration...
Carmela "Millie" Arena
Feb 2, 2022
Carmela M. (Barbaro) Arena, age 93, longtime Concord resident, died peacefully in the comfort of her home with loving family by her side on February 2, 2022. Affectionately known as Millie, her long life was marked by unwavering love, faith, and dedication to family. She has been reunited with her beloved husband, Angelo Arena, who died in 1995, and her...
Patricia A. Ruggiero
Feb 1, 2022
Patricia Ann Ruggiero (née Marcey), of Ashby, passed peacefully in her sleep on February 1, 2022. Raised in Maynard, she lived and raised her family in West Concord for almost twenty-five years. She was the loving and supportive wife of Lawrence Ruggiero for forty-nine of her seventy-one years on this earth. She was predeceased by her parents, John and Barbara,...
Edward P. Miller
Jan 30, 2022
Edward Peter Miller, a long-time resident of Concord Massachusetts (1977) and Brewster Massachusetts (1962) passed away peacefully on Sunday evening, January 30th, 2022. Born April 17, 1939 to Eleanor (Martens) and Edward Miller. Husband of Anne Margaret Miller (Vogel), and brother of David Miller of Lynnfield, MA and Glenn Miller, Mi-Wuk Village, CA. Edward grew up in Arlington MA, graduated...
Dale S. Antanitus, Md
Jan 30, 2022
Dale S. Antanitus, MD, 72, of Carlisle, MA, passed away at home on January 30, 2022 after a 4-year battle with bladder cancer (initially doctors gave him only a few months!) Dale Stanley Antanitus was born October 28, 1949 in LaSalle, Illinois, to parents Phyllis and Stanley Antanitus. Â From an early age he demonstrated a never-ending curiosity and interest in...
Beatrice R. Page
Jan 30, 2022
Beatrice R. Page passed away peacefully on January 30, 2022. A life-long resident of Massachusetts, she attended Miss Mills School and Pittsfield High School. She was a graduate of the Katherine Gibbs School in Boston. Bea worked at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill as a Secretary to the Head of School. Bea lived in Lincoln, MA from 1952...
Kathryn L. Gosselin
Jan 30, 2022
Kathryn Lee (Graf) Gosselin, age 78, daughter of the late Kenneth Graf and Juliet Graf Howard, died peacefully at Edgewood LifeCare Community, North Andover, MA on January 30, 2022. Kathryn's formative years in Detroit, Michigan were surrounded by a strong family of aunts, uncles, and cousins. She studied journalism and communications at Michigan State University, then moved to Boston in...
Paul Puschak
Jan 27, 2022
Paul Puschak, age 84, of Acton, died peacefully on January 27, 2022, following a brief illness. Paul was the devoted husband of Elaine (Schoeman) Puschak for 52 years. Paul was born on July 3, 1937 and grew up in Coaldale, Pennsylvania. As the son of the late Wash and Mary Puschak, Paul was the youngest of four boys, and came...
Joseph Marshall
Jan 27, 2022
Joseph (Joe) Marshall, of Syosset, New York, passed away on January 27, 2022, at the age of 102. Joe was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 10, 1919, to Selma and Isador. He was the oldest of 3 children, his sister Rochelle, who predeceased him, and his brother Myron. In 1943, he married the love of his life, Clarice....
Mary "Kay" Schneider
Jan 24, 2022
Mary "Kay" Schneider, died in Concord, MA on January 24, 2022. Her husband Bruce; sons Matthew, Andrew, and Philip; daughters-in-law; grandchildren, sisters: Julie and Melinda; and a cousin representing her mother's family from the local area were present. Kay earned her MA in Special Education (Deaf and Hard of Hearing). Kay was a founding teacher at the Oralingua School for...
William Carruth
Jan 21, 2022
William (Bill) Kevin Carruth, age 88, passed peacefully with family by his side on January 21, 2022, after a brief illness. Bill was born in 1933 in Queens, New York, and went on to live a full and adventurous life. He graduated from Fordham University and briefly entered the seminary. Although he did not enter the priesthood, spirituality was always...
H. Bruce Mueller
Jan 19, 2022
Harold Bruce Mueller, known to all as Bruce and a longtime Concord resident, passed away after a period of declining health on Wednesday January 19, 2022 at age 83. The grandson of German immigrants, he was born July 18, 1938 in Missoula, Montana to Theodore and Helen (Hubbard) Mueller. Bruce attended Saint Anthony's parochial school and Missoula County High School...
Helen E. Cronin
Jan 19, 2022
Helen E. (Scollins) Cronin, of Acton and Osterville, passed away peacefully on January 19, 2022 at the age of 83. She was born in Boston on April 24, 1938. She was the beloved wife of Peter J. Cronin for 59 years. Devoted mother of Elizabeth M. Fogelgren and her late husband Andrew, Emily F. Ronchetti and her husband Jeffrey, Peter...
A. Jane Murphy
Jan 19, 2022
Anita Jane (Gray) Murphy, 89, of Concord, passed away at Robbins Brook Assisted Living in Acton on January 19, 2022. She was the wife of the late Richard T. Murphy who died in 2009. They were married in 1971 in Norfolk, England. Born in Whiston, Yorkshire, England on October 20, 1932, she was the daughter of the late Colin and...
Joyce (Mcphillips) Pettus
Jan 18, 2022
Joyce (McPhillips) Pettus, age 69, of Concord, passed away peacefully while surrounded by family on January 18, 2022. Born and raised in Concord, Joyce graduated from Concord Carlisle High School in 1970, followed by earning a bachelor's degree from UMass Boston, and a master's from Suffolk University. Joyce worked at the Concord District Court, first as a Clerk and then...
Lucille J. Dirubio
Jan 15, 2022
Lucille J. (Thériault) DiRubio, 87, a long-time resident of Paxton, passed away on January 15, 2022 at Life Care Center of Acton, after enduring several health challenges with grace and determination. Lucille was born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 27, 1934, the youngest child and loving daughter of Auguste and Emma (Gagne) Thériault. She grew up during the Great Depression...
Nancy Dean Kingman
Jan 13, 2022
Nancy Dean Kingman, 90, of Acton, MA, died of complications from a stroke on January 13, 2022. She was the wife of William L. "Bill" Kingman, with whom she shared 67 years of marriage. Nancy was born on November 11, 1931 in Sheffield, MA as the daughter of the late Frederic Stuart Dean and Alice Miller Dean Morse. At a...
Sarah "Sally" Griswold Leahy
Jan 12, 2022
Sarah "Sally" Griswold Leahy, Museum of Fine Arts Educator, Devoted Mother and Grandmother, age 89, of Westwood, formerly of Chestnut Hill, died at home of natural causes on January 12, 2022. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Richard "Dick" Gordon Leahy. Sally was born in New Haven, Connecticut to parents Mary Brooks and Alfred Whitney Griswold. Her father, a...
