Janet Smith Dore

Feb 18, 2025

Janet was born on February 6, 1949 in Washington, D.C. and spent her childhood in McLean, Virginia. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from Mount Holyoke College. The Saturday after her college graduation, she married the person who would be her husband for almost 54 years. She leaves her husband, Robert F. Dore, Jr. (“Bob”) and four children: Jason...

Walter Damrosch Littell

Feb 11, 2025

Walter Damrosch Littell, whose career began during the golden age of network television news, was followed by a distinguished tenure in university public relations, most notably advising A. Bartlett Giamatti during his visionary tenure as president of Yale University, and ended as a poet in the birthplace of American Transcendentalism, died in his home in Concord, Mass., February 11, 2025....

Malcolm G. Caldwell, III

Feb 6, 2025

“Loving Husband, Stepfather, Papi, Brother & Uncle”

Malcolm G. Caldwell, III, 62, of Waterbury, died peacefully on February 6, 2025, at VITAS Inpatient Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital with his loving wife Beth (Mahaney) Caldwell and stepson Christopher Doyle by his side. 

Malcolm, known affectionately to friends and family as “Trip” or “Mal” was born on March 20, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts...

Nancy M. Giragosian

Feb 6, 2025

Nancy Giragosian of Nantucket and Boston died February 6, 2025 at Massachusetts General Hospital from complications of amyloidosis. She was 68.

Born in Troy, New York, she was raised in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Concord, Massachusetts, where she attended Concord-Carlisle High School. She graduated with an economics major from Ohio State University and went on to show a remarkable acumen for...

Rosario Vito Tomaselli

Feb 5, 2025

Rosario Vito Tomaselli, affectionately known as Tom, left us on February 5, 2025, at the age of 94. His heart was full of love for his family and friends, and his spirit was vibrant until the very end. Tom was the devoted husband of the late M. Frances (Carlstrom) Tomaselli, who passed away in 1992, and P. Betty (Martinelli) Tomaselli,...

Mary Lucena Hanna Cowgill

Feb 4, 2025

Mary Lucena Hanna Cowgill passed away in her sleep on February 4, 2025, at age 92, in Concord, MA. She was born on November 20, 1932, in Newton, Kansas, the daughter of George David Hanna and Marian Axtell Hanna. She was descended from English settlers who landed at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640.

In the mid-19th-century , her maternal ancestors...

Jacqueline V. Wool

Feb 3, 2025

Jacqueline V. Wool, a longtime Concord resident, passed away on February 3, 2025, at the age of 86. 

Born in Toulon, France, on August 8, 1938, Jacqueline was a gracious and giving friend, a loving mother and grandmother, an adventurous traveler, and an inveterate lover of books, birds, and Asian art. With her late husband, Sheldon Wool, she enjoyed watching the...

Carol Elizabeth Gupta

Feb 3, 2025

Carol Gupta passed away peacefully at home in Concord on February 3, 2025. She was 77.

The life she led, the work she did, was an inspiration to all whose lives she touched – and she touched many. Over a period of thirty-some years, Carol fought off inflammatory breast cancer, metastatic brain cancer, recovered from two brain surgeries, and later, a...

Dan Dimancescu

Jan 31, 2025

Dan Dimancescu, who has died age 81 1/2, came from a long line of storytellers, and throughout a long, well-lived, lively, and engaging eight decades, he excelled in inspiring people to go out into the world and to be curious explorers, not passive observers of life. He excelled in bringing people together from different countries, faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities and...

Tai-Sheng Pan

Jan 24, 2025

Tai-sheng Pan, 73, of Concord, Massachusetts, passed away on January 24, 2025. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and was a beloved father, husband, brother, uncle, and grandfather. He was predeceased by his wife, Barbara, who was his devoted partner in life.Tai-sheng moved to Massachusetts in 1975 and was a structural engineer as well as a passionate Tai Chi teacher....