Obituaries
Thomas E. Wyatt of Fitchburg died on March 24, 2015 at his winter home in Spring Hill, FL. He was born on the Williams farm in Groton on June 30, 1942 son of the late Alfred and Mary (Williams) Wyatt. He grew up in Groton and attended Groton High School. Tom worked at Hollingsworth & Vose Co. for 45 years. He loved his job, and rose through the ranks to become a consultant engineer and finally Plant Superintendent in Hawkinsville, Georgia....
A Celebration of Life Reception will be held in the MacNeil Lounge, Fred Gray Building at The Lawrence Academy on Powder House Road, April 4, 2015, from 2 - 6 PM. All who knew Ben are cordially invited to attend.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you might consider honoring Ben's memory with a donation to: The Fort Devens Museum, 94 Jackson Rd., Suite 305, Devens, MA 01434. Condolences may be left on The Badger Funeral Home online...
Bennett Raddin Black, 92, passed away on March 22, 2015 at his home in Groton. He was born on October 26, 1922 in Everett, MA.
Bennett, "Ben," graduated from the Lawrence Academy at Groton in 1941 and from the University of New Hampshire at Durham in 1947. After graduation, he went to work for Hardware Mutual in Boston where he met and married Mildred Elizabeth Morris in November 1949 and with whom he shared and enjoyed 64 years of marriage,...
Peter Moller, 65, died Tuesday, March 24, 2015 after a brief illness. He was born October 23, 1949 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, son of the late Edith and Borge Moller. He moved with his family to Acton when he was five and attended Acton-Boxborough High School. He and his wife Marva (Lewis) were married in 1978 and moved to Groton in 1980. He was a carpenter for 40 years, specializing in old house renovations.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his...
Aldo Luca, 94, of Groton passed on March 23, 2015 with his loving children, Linda and Tim and his son-in-law, Jerry Tarpey by his side.
Born in New York City on June 25, 1920, Aldo was the son of Italian immigrants Domenico Luca and his wife, Maria Monetucci. Raised in Brooklyn, he graduated from James Madison High School in 1937. After graduation, he began working for the Certified Dry Mat Corporation of New York and West Groton. At night he...
Nancy J. (McGrath) Tyler of Cumberland, R. I., and West Harwich, formerly of Worcester, died Saturday, March 14, in Providence, R.I., after a brief illness. She was 85. Her husband, Dr. Robert J. Tyler, a Worcester dentist, died in 1989.
Born in Boston, she was the daughter of the late John J. and Mary A. (Kane) McGrath. She leaves six children, Maryfran, wife of Harry J. Kelly III, of Alexandria, VA; Nancy, wife of Scott J. Schoen Sr., of...
Irene M. (Richard) Collette, 91, formerly of Emery Road, Townsend, died Sunday, March 15, 2015, at RiverCourt Residences, West Groton.
Her husband of 63 years, Richard O. Collette, died in 2009.
She leaves three sons, R. Lee Collette and his partner, Lee McTighe of Townsend, Stephen J. Collette and his wife, Michelle, of West Groton, and Peter A. Collette of Townsend; her brother, Norman A. Richard of Fitchburg; three granddaughters, Caryn L....
Allan Thomas Friedrich, age 62, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 12, 2015.
He was born in Ayer, MA on December 9, 1952, the son of John R. and Eileen Friedrich and
lived most of his life in Groton. He was the beloved husband of Donna (Drew) Friedrich.
Allan attended Country Day School in Groton, graduated from Groton High School and went to University of Massachusetts, where he decided his avocation was in the building...
William Howard "Tonto" Grennell, 85, passed away January 19, 2015 at the VA Medical Center, West Roxbury after battling heart disease.
He was born in Philadelphia, PA November 19, 1929 to the late Ruth Ann Flewelling and William Edward Grennell. He was raised in Belmont and attended Northeastern University after leaving the army in 1955 and taking up work with Earl D. Allen Builders.
Married in 1957 to wife Patricia A. (Staffon) eventually...
Richard Homère Gagné, longtime teacher and coach at the Lawrence Academy in Groton, died of natural causes in Arlington, VA on March 7, 2015. He was 85.
Mr. Gagné was born at home in Franklin, NH, on February 5, 1930, second child of Romeo Omer Gagné and Marion Edna Cate Gagné, and brother to Corinne and Kenneth. He attended the Franklin schools as a child, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1948 and Dartmouth College in 1952. At...