Local Obituaries
R. Bruce Bobbitt
May 14, 2022
Richard Bruce Bobbitt, a lifelong resident of Dedham, died Saturday, May 14, 2022 at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Needham after a brief illness. He was 70. Bruce was born June 11, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, a son of Richard Beverly and Natalie Grace (Belyea) Bobbitt. He is survived by two sisters, N. Susanne Bobbitt of Dedham,...
Florina Morelli
May 9, 2022
Florina M. (Parillo) Morelli, of Norwood, passed away on May 9, 2022 in Boston at the age of 94. She was born on July 7, 1927 in Dedham, MA, and was the daughter of the late Frank and Maria (Denegris) Parillo. Florina was the beloved wife of the late Albert C. Morelli and was the dear mother of Donna...
Mildred L. Haynes
May 7, 2022
Mildred L. (Brown) Haynes, a longtime resident of North Attleboro, died Saturday, May 7, 2022 at her daughter’s home in Mansfield. She was 92. Millie was born June 1, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Myron A. and Ruth E. (White) Brown. She retired in 1993 after twelve years as a clerk for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in...
John Nash
May 5, 2022
The Nash family is sad to announce that John died on May 5, 2022. He died peacefully in his sleep as he wished. John Nash was born in Boston Massachusetts on March 6, 1932. His father was Otis Cushing Nash; His mother was Theodora Roberts Nash John attended Proctor Academy in Andover New Hampshire. His years there had a...
Evelyn F. Hudson
Apr 25, 2022
Evelyn Frances (Wilson) Hudson, a longtime resident of Dedham, died Monday, April 25, 2022 at her home in Dedham. She was 76. Evelyn was born May 24, 1945 in Everett, Massachusetts, one of the four children of Robert Harvey and Mary Agnes (Keenan) Wilson. During the pre-computer age Evelyn worked as a filing clerk at Tufts Medical Center in...
Eleanor Ng
Apr 23, 2022
Eleanor Ng, a resident of Dover, died Saturday, April 23, 2022 at Winate Assisted Living Center in Needham. She was 99. Eleanor was born December 15, 1922 in Toishan, China , the daughter of Lauman and Fay Hing (Wong) Hong. She was the wife of the late Leong Ng and is survived by her son, Francis Ng, and her...
Patrick J. Douglas
Apr 16, 2022
Patrick Joseph Douglas, a resident of Boston, died Saturday, April 16, 2022 at his home in Boston. He was 50. Patrick was born July 1, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of the late Arthur J. Douglas, and Marion (Marriott) Gaw of Norwood. Patrick worked in the roofing and landscaping industries. In addition to his mother he is survived...
Marneffe Francis De
Apr 15, 2022
Francis Laurent Armand de Marneffe, a resident of Fox Hill Village in Westwood, and formerly a resident of Cambridge, died Friday, April 15, 2022 at the Mass General Hospital in Boston. He was 97. Francis was born May 7, 1924 in Brussels, Belgium, the son of Armand and Esther Magdalene (Loveday) de Marneffe. Francis was a psychiatrist and the...
William A. Davis
Apr 13, 2022
William Arthur “Billy” Davis died Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville, Georgia. He was 64. Billy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of the late Robert S. and Marie E. (DeCoste) Davis. He grew up in East Dedham and was in the last graduating class of St. Mary’s School in Dedham. Billy...
Alfredo Figueroa
Apr 4, 2022
January 28, 1958 – April 4, 2022
Alfredo Segundo Figueroa, a resident of Dedham, passed away Monday, April 4, 2022 at BIDH in Needham, MA, at the age of 64. Alfredo was born January 28, 1958 in San Felipe, Venezuela. The son of the late Domingo Segundo Figueroa and Flor Maria Aponte de Figueroa. Alfredo came...
Vassilios “Bill” Alex
Mar 22, 2022
March 16, 1943 – March 22, 2022
Vassilios “Bill” Alex of Brockton, Massachusetts, age 79, passed away on March 22, 2022 after a valiant four-year battle with blood cancer. Bill was born in Boston on March 16, 1943 and happily spent his early years in the Dorchester section of the city. The son of immigrants whose...
Patricia T. Oakes
Mar 11, 2022
Patricia Theresa (Mercier) Oakes, a longtime resident of Hyde Park, died Friday, March 11, 2022 at Newbridge on the Charles in Dedham. She was 96. Patricia was born February 1, 1926 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joseph and Alexina (Gaudette) Mercier. She trained as a nurse for three years at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester from where she...
Charles Sr. Obin
Mar 10, 2022
Charles Edward Obin, Sr., a resident of Dedham, passed away on March 10, 2022 at the age of 86. Born in Boston, the son of George and Bernice (Mackey) Haar. Mr. Obin was the beloved husband of Carol E. (Masters) Obin and dear father of Charles E. Obin, Jr. of Canton, Carl Obin and his wife Teresa of Randolph,...
Edwin E. “Bud” Waite
Mar 6, 2022
Edwin Eugene Waite, know by all as “Bud”, died Sunday, March 6, 2022 at the Sophia Snow House in West Roxbury. He was 96. Bud was born October 22, 1925 in Millis, Massachusetts, one of the five children of Eugene Edwin and Flossie (Saltmarsh) Waite. He was inducted into the Army in 1944 and served for two years as...
A. Louise Baker
Mar 4, 2022
Anna Louise Baker, a resident of New Pond Village of Walpole for the past eight years, formerly of Medfield for nine years and Westwood for almost fifty years, died Friday March 4, 2022. She was 96 years old. Louise (known to close friends as Squeak) was born October 19, 1925, in Glenridge, NJ, the daughter of Michael K. and...
Adrienne L. Parsons
Mar 3, 2022
Adrienne Lorraine (Reid) Parsons, a 60 year resident of Dedham, passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 3, 2022 at the Ellis Nursing Home in Norwood. She was 93. Adrienne was born May 3, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, a daughter of George T. and Anne F. (McIntosh) Reid. She graduated from Roslindale High School with the Class of 1945 and...
Walter C. “Butchie” Nee
Mar 1, 2022
Walter Charles Nee, a lifelong Dedham resident, died Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at Wind Rose at Weymouth. He was 87. Butchie was born August 31, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts, a son of Francis Joseph Sr. and Ida K. (Schnell) Nee. He enlisted in the Navy in 1952 and served on the USS Coral Sea until his honorable discharge in...
Lawrence Healy
Feb 27, 2022
March 29, 1933 – February 27, 2022
Lawrence J. Healy, of West Roxbury and formerly of Dedham, Jamaica Plain and Hyannis, passed away on February 27, 2022. He was 88. Larry was born in Boston on March 29, 1933, and was the son of the late Thomas A. Healy and Gertrude E. (Donnelly) Healy. He grew...
Suzanne Lapham
Feb 22, 2022
Suzanne (Hervey) Lapham of Canton passed away on February 22, 2022 at the age of 78. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to William A. and Mabael (Braheney) Hervey. She was the loving mother of Glen Lapham and his wife Debra of Medway and Shawn Lapham of Canton. Sister of Joanne Harald and her husband Albert of California. She was...
John J. Finn
Feb 18, 2022
John Joseph Finn, a resident of Boston, died Friday, February 18, 2022 at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston. He was 89. John was born November 8, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the six children of William J. and Mary (Donaughue) Finn, immigrants from Ireland. He grew up in Boston’s South End and graduated from Cathedral High School in...
