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Honoring Lives: Obituaries and Tributes

Cheryl Elizabeth Sullivan

Cheryl Elizabeth Sullivan

Jul 26, 2018

On Thursday, July 26, 2018, after a long illness, Cheryl Elizabeth Sullivan passed away in her hometown of Concord, Mass., surrounded by the family she loved and who loved her. She was 49 years old. Born in Concord on May 22, 1969, Cheryl enjoyed and excelled at many activities. Witty and sociable, with her sister Nancy she was a member...

Beverly Barney

Beverly Barney

Jul 22, 2018

Beverly (Garrett) Barney, 76, of Concord, died on Sunday, July 22, 2018 at Miriam Boyd Parlin Hospice Residence in Wayland with her family by her side. She was the devoted wife of The Rev. David M. Barney, with whom she enjoyed 53 years of loving marriage. Born in Washington, Georgia on September 26, 1941, she was the daughter of the...

Lesley K. Noftsker

Lesley K. Noftsker

Jul 16, 2018

Lesley Kay Hampton Noftsker of Billerica, Massachusetts died peacefully on Monday, July 16, 2018 at age 74. She had endured a gradual accumulation over 45 years of neurological damage from Multiple Sclerosis. Lesley was born in Galesburg, Illinois on December 9, 1943 to Elizabeth Ritter Hampton and Howard H. Hampton. She attended University of Colorado Boulder before she married and...

Kimberly S. Dobbie

Kimberly S. Dobbie

Jul 15, 2018

Kimberly (Kim) Sue Dobbie died on July 15, 2018 from injuries sustained in a homicide in Lewiston, Maine. She was 48 years old. Kim is survived by her 11-year-old twin sons, Cole and Dylan, by her mother, Sue Dobbie of Ayer, formerly of Harvard, Massachusetts; and by her brother Christopher of Baltimore, Maryland. She is also survived by her uncle...

Richard Frederic Meyer

Richard Frederic Meyer

Jul 15, 2018

Richard ("Dick") Frederic Meyer, age 71, a longtime resident of Carlisle, Massachusetts, passed away at his home on July 15, 2018, from multiple myeloma. Richard was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 25, 1946 to Arthur and Janet Meyer. He graduated from Munich American High School in Germany in 1964; Michigan State University in 1968; and earned his JD from...

Mary Lou Fadiman

Mary Lou Fadiman

Jul 10, 2018

Mary Lou Fadiman, of Groton, formerly of Concord, passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. She was the daughter of the late Mabel Louise (Scott) and Dr. Arthur Robert Turner of Norwalk, CT. Mary Lou graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont. She received her Bachelors and Masters in Fine Arts from New York...

Jenny Phillips

Jenny Phillips

Jul 9, 2018

~ From the Boston Globe Article by Danny McDonald ~ CONCORD / NANTUCKET - Jenny Phillips, an accomplished documentary filmmaker, activist, and therapist from Concord apparently drowned on July 9, 2018 after jumping from her small sailboat to swim to shore in Nantucket. Jenny Phillips was about a quarter-of-a-mile out at most when she began her swim, said her husband,...

Charles W. Haldeman, Iii

Charles W. Haldeman, Iii

Jul 6, 2018

Charles W. Haldeman III (Chuck), age 82, of Concord, died peacefully at his home at the Lincoln Commons on Friday, July 6, 2018. He was the devoted husband for 59 years of Louise (Stephenson) Haldeman, father of two sons, and grandfather to three granddaughters. Born in Philadelphia in 1936, he was the son and only child of Charles Waldo Haldeman,...

Richard B. Marshall

Richard B. Marshall

Jul 5, 2018

Richard B. Marshall, 77, founder of Marshall Farms and a lifelong Concord resident, died at home, surrounded by family, on Thursday, July 5, 2018. He was the husband of Betty Whitcomb and the late Diane (Engebretson) Marshall. Born in Cambridge on May 7, 1941, he was the son of the late Joseph and Mary (Perry) Marshall. In the seventies, he...

James E. Murphy, Sr.

James E. Murphy, Sr.

Jul 4, 2018

James E. Murphy, Sr. died July 4, 2018 in his home in Newtonville, MA. Better known as Papa or the Old Fart as he liked to call himself, he was born on Holy Thursday, April 5, 1928 and his mother thought for sure he would become a priest. He was the youngest of 7 children born in Concord, Ma to...

Patricia M. Harvey

Patricia M. Harvey

Jul 3, 2018

Patricia M. (Hennessy) Harvey, 92, a longtime Concord resident, died peacefully in the comfort of her home on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. She was the loving wife of the late Charles J. Harvey who died in 1980. She was born in Woburn on March 29, 1926 to her late parents, Michael and Mary (McEnaney) Hennessy. After graduating from Winthrop High...

Pauline C. "Polly" Eaton

Pauline C. "Polly" Eaton

Jul 3, 2018

Pauline Cloutier "Polly" Eaton, 91, of Bedford, formerly of Concord, Acton, and Yarmouthport, MA and Naples, FL, died peacefully on Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington. She was the beloved wife of the late Frederick W. Eaton who died in 2004. Polly was born in Portland, Maine on September 25, 1926, the daughter of...

Doreen L. Amaral

Doreen L. Amaral

Jul 1, 2018

Doreen L. Amaral (née Harper), age 81, of Holden, beloved grandmother, mother, sister, and friend, died from leukemia on July 1, 2018. Born in London, England, Doreen married John P. Amaral in Swindon, Wiltshire and emigrated to the U.S. in 1958. Doreen and John were married until his death in 1979. After careers as a Registered Nurse and Massage Therapist,...

Rebecca L. Wilson

Rebecca L. Wilson

Jun 29, 2018

Rebecca L. (Allen) Wilson, age 38, formerly of Greenville, NH and Acton, MA, died suddenly as a result of injuries she sustained from an automobile accident in Shirley on Friday, June 29, 2018. She was born in Waltham on October 18, 1979. Despite Rebecca's life being cut tragically short, her memory and legacy will live on as a woman of...

Paul Sanford Handler

Paul Sanford Handler

Jun 28, 2018

Paul Sanford Handler, age 92, of Beverly, MA, formerly of Boulder, CO, died peacefully with his devoted wife Barbara at his side on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers. He was born in New York City in February of 1926 to his late parents, Nathan and Clara (Kantrowitz) Handler. He was raised in the...

James V. Mcgowan

James V. Mcgowan

Jun 28, 2018

On Thursday, June 28, 2018, James Vincent McGowan, accomplished New England artist, passed away at his Boxborough home suddenly at the age of 85. Jim will be forever remembered by his late wife, Frances Bullock McGowan, his children Carolyn Watt and husband Jimmy Watt, Robbin Marie Coss and husband Neil Coss, the late Maureen McGowan, James McGowan, Allison Fleming and...

Madeline E. Ohs-Sloan

Madeline E. Ohs-Sloan

Jun 27, 2018

Madeline E. (Stephen) Ohs-Sloan, of Carlisle and a summer resident of Duxbury, died peacefully, following a brief illness, on Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at Emerson Hospital in Concord. She recently celebrated her 90th birthday and was the cherished wife of James F. Sloan. Madeline was born on June 15, 1928, as the daughter of the late Edward and Madeline (Hankinson)...

Lillian "Libby" Bock

Lillian "Libby" Bock

Jun 25, 2018

Lillian "Libby" Bock, of Stonebridge at Burlington, died on June 25, 2018, just before her 97th birthday. She was the beloved wife of the late Louis Bock; dear mother of Barbara Markus and Russ Bock, mother-in-law of Jeanne Bock, grandmother of Shyam Markus, Noah Markus, Andrew Bock, and Matthew Bock, and great-grandmother of Dylan, Zoey, and Willow Markus and Ezra...

Tryntje Auer Hawks

Tryntje Auer Hawks

Jun 20, 2018

Tryntje Auer Hawks, of Concord, MA, passed away on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Tryntje, known as Trynie to her friends and Dama to her grandchildren, was born on June 8, 1921 in Ithaca, NY to Dr. Johannes Abraham Christoffel Auer and Johanna Snijder Auer. Her parents moved to the United States from Holland so that her father could pursue an...

Marjorie Ann Simon

Marjorie Ann Simon

Jun 19, 2018

Marjorie Ann Simon, 93, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Concord, MA. She was the loving wife of the late Lawrence Simon and sister of the late Richard Ticktin. She is survived by her daughters, Cathy (David Kuney) and JoAnn (Lin Tse-hsin), and her grandchildren, Daniel and Jessica Kuney, and David and Benjamin Lin. We will...

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