Raised in Newton, MA. In junior high school he received a full Naval ROTC scholarship to Brown University. After graduating from Brown, he trained on the battleship USS Missouri. He also trained with the U.S. Marines for amphibious training and flight indoctrination, and then cruised on the destroyer USS Harry F Bauer. After 3 years of active duty in the Pacific on the heavy cruiser USS Bremerton, he spent 18 years in the Active Naval Reserve and retired as a Captain. He married his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth "Betsy" Webber in 1958 after completing his active duty, and while he was earning his Masters of Education at Boston University and she was starting her career as a microbiologist. They lived in Brighton, Lexington, Needham, Duxbury, Mashpee and West Yarmouth. He worked for 38 years as a guidance counselor in both Wellesley and in Duxbury. He was a volunteer builder over over 250 homes for Habitat for Humanity. He received the first ever Historical Preservation Award in June 2019 from the Mashpee Historical Commission to honor him for his decade of work as School Master of the Mashpee One Room School House. He leaves his wife, Betsy; daughter, Jennifer Blum and her husband, Jonathan of Edgartown; son, Jeffrey Lord and his wife, Pamela of Plymouth; six grandchildren, Andrew, Christopher, Matthew, Michael, Mason, and Madison; and sisters, Phyllis Higgins of Framingham, and Lillian Milek of Michigan.
Raised in Newton, MA. In junior high school he received a full Naval ROTC scholarship to Brown University. After graduating from Brown, he trained on the battleship USS Missouri. He also trained with the U.S. Marines for amphibious training and flight indoctrination, and then cruised on the destroyer USS Harry F Bauer. After 3 years of active duty in the Pacific on the heavy cruiser USS Bremerton, he spent 18 years in the Active Naval Reserve and retired as a Captain. He married his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth "Betsy" Webber in 1958 after completing his active duty, and while he was earning his Masters of Education at Boston University and she was starting her career as a microbiologist. They lived in Brighton, Lexington, Needham, Duxbury, Mashpee and West Yarmouth. He worked for 38 years as a guidance counselor in both Wellesley and in Duxbury. He was a volunteer builder over over 250 homes for Habitat for Humanity. He received the first ever Historical Preservation Award in June 2019 from the Mashpee Historical Commission to honor him for his decade of work as School Master of the Mashpee One Room School House. He leaves his wife, Betsy; daughter, Jennifer Blum and her husband, Jonathan of Edgartown; son, Jeffrey Lord and his wife, Pamela of Plymouth; six grandchildren, Andrew, Christopher, Matthew, Michael, Mason, and Madison; and sisters, Phyllis Higgins of Framingham, and Lillian Milek of Michigan.
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