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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...
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...

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...
U.S. Army Air Forces pilot 1st Lt. Allen R. Turner

Brookline Pilot Who Crashed During WWII Accounted For

A U.S. Army Air Forces pilot from Massachusetts whose plane crashed during World War II has been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced...

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...
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...

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...

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...
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,...
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...

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...

Mark Robinson Passes At 78

Mark L. Robinson, 78, a resident of Milton, passed away peacefully on August 29th, 2019, at McClure-Miller Respite House in Colchester, VT. Mark was a...

Joseph M. Quinn, Sr. Passes At 102

Joseph M. “Joe” Quinn, Sr. passed away peacefully on November 09, 2020, just 20 days shy of his 103rd birthday. Retired 36-year veteran of the...
Anne Babine Klapfish

Anne Babine Klapfish Passes At 69

Anne Babine Klapfish had a big heart, which unexpectedly stopped working June 20, 2019, in her home in Tenants Harbor. Anne is the daughter of...
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...
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. &...

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...

Janet Ralph Has Passed

Janet F. Ralph, of Brookline, MA, formerly of Cranston, passed away on June 05, 2019. She was the loving wife of Samuel “Sam” Scott...

Jane Sweet Passes At 54

Jane Sweet of Hyannis died unexpectedly on August 8. She was 54.She was born on January 23, 1965, and grew up in Fairfield, CT. She attended...