Frances Kingsford Clark
Jan 18, 2018
Frances (Franny) Kingsford Clark, 95, died January 18, at Brookhaven in Lexington Mass. with her daughter, Frances H. Clark, beside her.Frances K. Clark loved fun; her laugh would make a party. She celebrated her family, her heritage (she was a lineal descendant of Alexander Hamilton) and her community. Everything was merrier still if there was a horse, a dog or...
Donald Roger Barron
Jan 12, 2018
Donald Roger Barron age 86 of Concord passed away on Friday, January 12, 2018 at Emerson Hospital.Born in Cambridge on October 26, 1931 he was the son of the late Walter O. and Elsie (Porter) Barron.Don earned a BA from Tufts University and a MA from Boston University. He was employed as an art teacher for the Bedford Public Schools;...
Richard George Furth
Dec 27, 2017
Richard G. Furth, age 89 died on December 27, 2017 in Concord. He was born in 1928, the son of George W. and Carolyn (Furth) Cohen. Raised in Los Angeles, California, Dick graduated from the University of California-Berkeley. After college, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, where he served as a radar observer for the 339th fighter squadron...
Dorothy Ruth (Purinton) Bockoven
Dec 21, 2017
Dorothy Ruth (Purinton) Bockoven age 102 of Lincoln passed away peacefully on Thursday, December 21, 2017 surrounded by her loving family and beloved pets. She was the wife of the late Dr. John Sanbourne Bockoven. Dorothy Ruth Bockoven was born on November 18, 1915 to Ralph and Shirley (Morse) Purinton in their hilltop farmhouse, Bristol, Vermont. Dorothy had two brothers...
Edward F. "Ted" Downey
Dec 20, 2017
Edward F. "Ted" Downey, age 87, of Lincoln and Sanibel, FL passed away on December 20, 2017 with his family by his side. Ted was raised in Quincy, MA. He is survived by his loving wife Elizabeth, brother Jack Downey, son Alexander Downey, daughter Kate Roth and favorite grandchild Mandy Roth.Family and friends will gather to honor and remember Ted...
Phoebe Dare Anderson McCarthy
Dec 13, 2017
Phoebe Dare Anderson McCarthy of Lincoln died unexpectedly on the evening of December 13, 2017 at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was born in Troy, New York, on May 24, 1947 to Prof. Sven A. Anderson and Mrs. Phoebe D. Anderson. She received her A.B. in Music magna cum laude from Vassar College and an A.M. from Harvard University, focusing on...
Gale Smith Mayfield
Dec 12, 2017
On December 12, 2017, Gale Smith Mayfield passed away peacefully in Concord, MA, just two months shy of her 90th birthday. Gale was born on February 23, 1928 in Arlington, MA to Priscilla Gale and Samuel Abbot Smith. Her father was a well-known champion of New England small businesses and the Chief Executive and owner of the Thomas Strahan Co....
Karl Fairbank Peterson
Dec 10, 2017
Karl Fairbank Peterson of Naples, Florida and West Gardiner, Maine died peacefully in his sleep Sunday December 10th at the North Hill Rehabilitation Center in Needham, Massachusetts after a brief illness. His beloved wife of 60 years, Nancy Libby Peterson, predeceased him in 2011. He leaves his daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Kevin Bentley of Concord, Massachusetts; his two granddaughters,...
Harrison Pearce Durant
Dec 8, 2017
Harrison Pearce Durant, age 23, passed away on Friday, December 8, in Elon, North Carolina. He was a senior at Elon University majoring in computing sciences with a minor in math.A resident of Arlington, Massachusetts, Harrison was born on November 3, 1994, the eldest son of Elizabeth Simons Durant and John Laighton Durant and brother of Liam Woods Durant (age...
Charles Carteret Fenno
Dec 7, 2017
Charles Carteret Fenno, 78, of Shrewsbury, died peacefully on November 22, 2017, at Rivercrest, a skilled nursing facility in Concord, after a short battle with brain cancer. He was the second of three children born in Boston on March 13, 1939, to John Brooks Fenno, Jr. and Virginia Chapman Fenno of Chestnut Hill.After graduating from St. Mark's School, Harvard University,...