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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Matthew Stein Passes At 63
Matthew Stein, the longtime Brookline resident and Police Auxiliary Officer passed away at age 63, on Monday, August 05, 2019.Beloved son of Bluma (Glickstein)...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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...