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Laverne E. Woods
Mar 12, 2016
LaVerne Woods passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 12, 2016 in the V.A. Hospice unit in Bedford, Massachusetts. He was 95 years old. Verne was born January 27, 1921 near Hazen, Arkansas. He lived with his grandfather for several years before moving to Memphis, Tennessee. Verne remembered very well the small cabin with its dog run, and the fireplace with...
Margaret Lanphier Wengren
Mar 8, 2016
Margaret (Marnie) Lanphier Wengren, formerly of Lincoln MA, died peacefully at her home in Lexington MA on March 8, 2016, six weeks before her 100th birthday. Marnie was introduced to Nantucket in the summer of 1936 when she was dating DeWitt Smith who she married in 1938. Marnie and DeWitt continued coming to the island, in the 1940s and 50s...
Jean E. Houck
Mar 7, 2016
Jean E. (Cousins) Houck, 53, of Littleton, formerly of Concord and Lowell, died Monday, March 7, 2016 at Norwood Hospital in Norwood. She was the beloved wife of Martin "Marty" Houck. Born in Concord on June 7, 1962, she was the daughter of the late Ashley B. Cousins, Jr. and Doris A. (Heath) Cousins. She attended Concord public schools, Concord...
Brenton J. Allen
Mar 6, 2016
Brenton J. Allen, age 50, of Carlisle, died unexpectedly on Sunday, March 6th at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington. He was the devoted husband of Elizabeth Lee (Breed) Allen. Born at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina on September 29, 1965, he was the beloved son of Ronald Charles and Elizabeth Jo (Buckley) Allen of Vienna, VA. In his youth,...
William De Krafft Burton
Mar 6, 2016
William de Krafft Burton, 89, of Concord, formerly of Lincoln and Winchester, died Sunday, March 6th after a brief stay at the Sawtelle Family Hospice House in Reading. He grew up in Winchester attending the Mystic School, was a graduate of Winchester High School in 1944 and later, Hobart College. In 1956, he married Priscilla March and moved to the...
William H. Camley
Mar 6, 2016
William H. Camley , 79, of Maynard, died Sunday, March 6, 2016 at his Maynard home. He was the beloved husband of the late Nancy A. (Scherer) Camley. Born in Leominster on October 20, 1936, he was the son of the late Harold and Ruth Camley. He attended Townsend public schools, graduated from Townsend High School and later attended a...
Raymond Tomlinson
Mar 5, 2016
Raymond Tomlinson, 74, the inventor of modern e-mail and pioneering American computer programmer died Saturday, March 5th in Concord. Survivors include his children, Brooke Tomlinson McKenzie and her husband Hector of St. Petersburg, FL and Suzanne Tomlinson Schaffer and her husband Dan of Cambridge, MA, his grandchildren, Brie and Mieka Schaffer, his brothers, Gary Tomlinson and his wife Carol and...
Carroll Potter Griffith, Jr.
Mar 4, 2016
*Please Note: A graveside committal service will take place on Saturday, July 2nd at 4 pm in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA. Carroll Potter Griffith Jr., 84, passed away on Friday, March 4, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. Known also by nicknames "Grif" or "Peter," he is survived by his wife of 58 years, Patricia Griffith, of Dallas, Texas. Born March...
Dimite Joanne Rasmussen
Mar 3, 2016
Dimite Joanne (Buckley) Rasmussen, 86, of Concord, died Thursday, March 3rd at the Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton. She was the beloved wife for 46 years of David Rasmussen of Concord. Born in Washington Courthouse, Ohio on March 23, 1929 she was the daughter of the late Robert and Eleanor (Seeburger) Buckley. In her youth, she attended...
Virginia E. Warren
Mar 1, 2016
Virginia E. (Venti) Warren, 81, of Nashua, NH, formerly of Concord, MA died Tuesday March 1, 2016 in Groton, MA. She was the beloved wife of 23 years of the late Charles Stewart Warren who died in 2002. Born in Concord, MA on May 30, 1934 she was the daughter of the late Antonio and Loreta (Marsili) Venti. She attended...
Margaret M. Altman
Feb 25, 2016
Margaret M. (Connolly) Altman, age 90, of Concord, died peacefully on Thursday, February 25 at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley in Littleton, MA. Marge was the beloved wife of the late Joseph Altman who died in 1996. Born in Philadelphia, PA on January 26, 1926 she was the daughter of Patrick and Mary (McFarren) Connolly. She was raised in...
Virginia "Jini" Vockel
Feb 25, 2016
Jini Vockel, age 73, of Boxborough, died peacefully after a long illness, on February 25, 2016, at her home with loved ones in attendance. She was the daughter of the late Paul T. Vockel and Ursula (Culbert) Vockel. A resident of Boxborough for many years, she is survived by her spouse Andrea Cardarelli and is remembered with much love by...
Hazel A. Macinnis
Feb 24, 2016
Hazel Alice (MacLeod) MacInnis, 93, of Silver Spring, MD and a former longtime Lincoln resident died peacefully on Wednesday, February 24th. She was the wife of the late Daniel A. MacInnis, Jr., former police and fire department chief for the Town of Lincoln. Born in Waltham on April 1, 1922 she was the daughter of the late Edward and Hester...
Melvin M. Barron, Esq.
Feb 22, 2016
Melvin M. Barron, 76, of Concord and Essex, died peacefully on February 22, 2016 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease and later cancer. Mel was the second of three children born to the late Jacob "Jack" and Ruth (Fremerman) Barron in Cambridge, MA on March 2, 1939. He attended Hyde Park High School, followed by Boston University, and George...
David Garrison Harkrider
Feb 16, 2016
David Garrison Harkrider, 84, of Concord, died on Tuesday, February 16, 2016. He was born in Houston, TX on September 25, 1931, the son of the late William Max Harkrider and Willie Mae Garrison Harkrider. He had been a resident of Concord, MA since 1995. He is survived by his wife Sara H. Brydges of Concord, his daughter Claire Harkrider...
Phyllis T. Sperandio
Feb 13, 2016
Phyllis T. (Beatrice) Sperandio, 96, of Concord, formerly of Acton and Framingham died Saturday February 13th at her Concord home. She was the beloved wife of the late Nazareth J. Sperandio. Born in Framingham on April 3, 1919 she was the daughter of the late Francesco and Giovanina (Frongillo) Beatrice. She attended Framingham schools and was a 1937 graduate of...
John Robert "Bob" Swanson
Jan 31, 2016
John Robert "Bob" Swanson, Sr., 88, of Concord, formerly of Milton, died Sunday, January 31, 2016 at his Concord home. He was the beloved husband for 29 years of Maureen (Joyce) Swanson and husband of the late Jeannette (Dion) Swanson. Born in Boston on July 11, 1927 he was the son of the late A. John and Florence (Anderson) Swanson....
Robert J. Maeda
Jan 30, 2016
Robert J. Maeda passed away on Saturday, January 30 at age 83. Robert was the Robert B. and Beatrice C. Mayer Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus at Brandeis University and was a longtime resident of Concord, MA. He is survived by his wife Nobuko, of Concord, MA, his daughter Kimi, of Columbia, SC and his sister, Edith, of Skokie, IL....
Andrew F. Keil
Jan 29, 2016
Andrew Keil, of Concord, MA, died January 29, 2016 in Boston, MA. Andrew graduated from Concord-Carlise High School in 2000. He then attended the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and graduated with a BA degree in Biology. His degree studies focused on marine life, land species, and microbiology. His did research on scallops, immunology, and oceanography out of Woods Hole. Andrew...
Joseph A. Lapusata, Jr.
Jan 20, 2016
Joseph A. LaPusata, Jr., a forty year resident of Concord, died Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at Emerson Hospital in Concord. He was the beloved husband of Dorothy I. (Lavallee) LaPusata and the loving father of Isabella and Alexander LaPusata. Born on February 4, 1970 in Revere, he was the son of the late Joseph A. LaPusata, Sr. and Helen Marie...
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