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Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., 87

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. Passes At 87

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., 87, a longtime Framingham resident died Friday, July 27, 2018 after a brief illness. Born in Brookline, the son the late Thomas J. &...
James “Jim” A. Robison

James Robison Passes At 90

James “Jim” A. Robison, 90, of Barters Island, Boothbay, Maine passed away July 7 at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough after a...
James M. Fisher, 59

James M. Fisher Passes At 59

James M. Fisher, age 59, passed away in rural Grand County on Friday, June 8, due to heart failure. James was born on July 14,...
Leon Trilling, 93

Professor Emeritus Leon Trilling Passes At 93

Leon Trilling, a professor emeritus in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and co-founder of the...
Judy Moses

Judy Moses Passes At 64

An unlicensed 17-year-old teenager has been charged with drunk driving in the death of a Winthrop native. Judy Moses, 64, of Chestnut Hill and a...
Vera Hill

Vera Hill Passes At 92

Vera Hill died peacefully Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at her home. She was 92. Vera June VanTassel was born April 1, 1926, in Halifax,...

David Bonetti Passes At 71

David Bonetti, an incisive and passionate art critic for the Post-Dispatch from 2003 to 2009, was found dead Wednesday in his apartment in Brookline,...

Rabbi Emeritus Robert M. Miller, D.D.

Rabbi Emeritus Robert M. Miller, D.D., of Dedham, formerly of Newton, on Friday, March 16, 2018. For 54 years, he was the loving husband of...
Richard T. "Dick" Leary

Richard T. “Dick” Leary, Brookline’s First Town Administrator, Passes At 85

The Town of Brookline mourns the loss of its first Town Administrator, Richard Leary. Dick Leary passed away on March 11 after a life...

Isaac Saki Passes At 16

A Brookline High School Student died suddenly on December 10. And now friends and community members are rallying to help support his family. A...

James P. Fallon Passed

James P. Fallon, of S. Yarmouth, formerly of Brookline, passed away on January 7, 2018. He was Chief of the Brookline Fire Dept. (ret.). He...
Peter P. Harper Sr.

Peter P. Harper Sr. Passes At 77

Peter P. Harper Sr., 77, of Old Orchard Beach, Maine and former longtime resident of Northborough, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018 at his home....

Edward “Ned” Michael Merrick Jr. Passes At 72

Former Plainville Police Chief Edward “Ned” Michael Merrick Jr., 72, peacefully passed away on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018 at his home in Plainville after...

William McGourty Passes At 73

William McGourty passed away at Rose Monahan Hospice in Worcester Thursday, January 4, 2018, after a valiant struggle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 73...

Betty M. Donahue Passes At 89

Betty M. (Michelini) Donahue of Westwood, a former resident of Mashpee, died October 2, at the age of 89. She was the widow of Thomas...

Constance Alice Connor Passes At 74

Constance Alice Connor, 74, of the Town of Jacksonport, WI, formerly of Massachusetts, fell asleep in the loving arms of her family and awoke...

Remembering Brookline’s Sonia Paine: Survivor, Businesswoman, Fighter

She fled from the Nazis with her parents in 1939, fended off career criminal “Little Nick” when he tried to rob her, and distinguished...

Sarah C. Eastman Passes At 82

Sarah Chapman Eastman, 82, of Fryeburg, passed away on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Brookline, MA. She was a beloved wife, mother, sister, aunt, and...

Brookline’s First Woman Police Officer To Make Lt. Dies

The first woman to ever make the rank of Sargeant and then Lieutenant in the Brookline Police Department passed away suddenly May 12. June...

The Passing Of Edmond Murphy

Edmond Gerard Murphy, of Pocasset, passed away peacefully on Friday morning at the McCarthy Care Center in Sandwich. He was the loving husband of...

Bob McKay Passes At 91

Bob McKay had no illusions that his work would be easy when he arrived in Boston in 1967, fresh from 15 years as a...

Elizabeth Riely Passes At 71

In her food articles, Elizabeth Gawthrop Riely took readers inside a Cambridge bistro that served venison, to a Maine island inn whose menu featured...
Karleton Fyfe

Karleton Fyfe Killed At 31

Karleton Fyfe's mother had to be bedridden for the six months before he was born; he seemed to be in a hurry to get...
Christine J. Barbuto

Christine J. Barbuto Killed At 32

Christine J. Barbuto was one of those people whom everyone else wanted to be around. Her friends from the University of Rhode Island recalled...