obits

Eoin W. Trevelyan

Eoin William Trevelyan, age 87, died in Concord on August 5, 2026. A long-time resident of Lincoln, he was predeceased by his devoted wife, J. Ann Devitt Trevelyan, and is survived by his children, Fiona S. Trevelyan and Stuart E.D. Trevelyan and their families, as well as his sister, Anna Trevelyan Stoker and her family.

Born in Yorkshire, England, on July 23, 1939, to Margaret Mary Edith Gardiner Montgomery Trevelyan and Percy Trevelyan, Eoin was educated at St. Peter’s School (York) and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Leeds before joining Ford Motor Co.(U.K.). He and his new bride then crossed the Atlantic so both could attend graduate school at Harvard University; he received his MBA in 1967 and his doctorate in 1972 from the Harvard School of Business. Eoin then joined the faculty of Harvard Business School before moving to the Harvard School of Public Health, where he remained for the rest of his career. 

Having served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Spelman College in Atlanta between his MBA and doctoral programs, Eoin maintained a close affiliation with the college, including serving as a trustee for many years. He and his wife were also active members of Trinity Copley Square.

A private service will be held at a later date. Donations may be made in Eoin’s honor to Trinity Boston Connects, 206 Clarendon St., Boston MA 02115. Arrangements are under the care of Concord Funeral Home, which provided this obituary.

Joan Seville

We celebrate the life of Joan (Hemstreet) Seville, born December 12, 1941, who passed away on June 10, 2026, in the presence of her children in Lincoln. She leaves behind a world made more beautiful by her art, her gardens, and her generous spirit—evident in the warmth and kindness she showed to friends and family alike. Known as MorMor to her beloved grandchildren, Joan was an artist, a gardener, a gourmet cook, and an advocate for community—a woman with a contagious smile who easily made friends wherever she visited or lived. Her spunk and positivity will be missed by all who knew her.

The oldest of four children, Joan grew up in Milton, Mass. She played basketball at Milton High School and, outside of school, was active as a Rainbow Girl. After graduation, she attended Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School. On one of her first jobs, at APT Associates, she met Alfred Seville at a business function and they were married in 1967. Having grown up as a beach girl, playing with her cousins at Humarock beach, she became a mountain girl when they married. Skiing in Zermatt on their honeymoon started years of adventures that included skiing at Glen Ellen, Vt, wh.ere Al built a small cabin, as well as in Europe and Scandinavia.

After her children were born, Joan dedicated her time to raising them and creating a welcoming home for all. She loved hosting family gatherings, especially the Swedish Christmas Eve celebration, and her door was always open to neighbors and friends. As an avid gardener, she created beautiful gardens surrounding their home in Lincoln, Mass. She always had fresh flowers in the house, including magnificent African violets.

Joan discovered a love of art during high school and continued to develop her talents through the years, both attending and teaching classes throughout her community. The walls of her family’s homes and multiple art shows are a testament to her talent and joy in capturing the beauty of the world—especially flowers—on canvas. Her grandchildren fondly remember art projects with her, and several of them seem to have inherited her artistic talent.

Joan was actively involved with Weston United Methodist Church over the past four decades, and we extend our gratitude to the church and its members for their support during the years she could no longer attend in person. Thank you also to the incredible staff at The Commons in Lincoln for their compassionate care and love over the last 11 years, especially through the later stages of Joan’s life.

Joan is survived by her children, Michelle Seville (Mike Basel) and Don Seville (Colleen Lannon); her grandchildren, Nic and Erik Lawrence and Finn and Caitlin Seville; her brothers, Edward Hemstreet (Alyce Hemstreet) and Lawrence Hemstreet (Fran Hemstreet); several cousins; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Alfred R. Seville, and by her brother, Donald Hemstreet.

A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, June 28 at 2:00pm at the Weston United Methodist Church, 377 North Ave. (Route 20), Weston, Mass., with a reception to follow. Flowers or donations in Joan’s memory may be made to Weston United Methodist Church or Lincoln Parks and Rec Open Studio.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary. To share a remembrance or a condolence on Joan’s tribute page, click here.

Lewis Lloyd

Lewis Lehmann Lloyd died of natural causes on June 8, 2026, at the Miriam Boyd Parlin Hospice Residence in Wayland. He was 87.

Born in November 1938, to John and Lillian Lloyd, Lew grew up in and around Atlantic City, N.J., with his brother, John, and two sisters, Joan and Nancy. As a teenager, Lew worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club, sparking a love of the White Mountains and the AMC. After a summer working at Pinkham Notch in 1954, he returned as a hutman at Lakes of the Clouds hut in 1955. Lew followed his brother John to the Lawrenceville School before matriculating at Yale University in the fall of 1956. He found his community in the theater at Yale, and became president of the Yale Dramatic Association (the undergraduate theater organization), kindling a life-long passion for theater and the arts.

Lew moved to New York after graduating, and while working at CBS in live television production, purchased the Pocket Theater, an off-Broadway venue on 13th Street and Third Avenue. He produced and managed shows, including the first documented marathon performance of Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” which ran for over 18 consecutive hours on September 9 and 10, 1963. Among the relay team of pianists were John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, John Cale, and David Del Tredici. This relationship with Cage grew to include a role for Lew as the manager of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He coordinated and tour managed the Cunningham Company’s first world tour in 1964, and was a founder, with Jasper Johns and others, of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 1963.

Following a period as the manager of the Brooklyn Academy of Music during its renaissance in the late 1960s and time at the New York State Council on the Arts, he moved with his family to Boston in 1974 to pursue a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Lew then took a position as the chief financial officer of the WGBH educational foundation and went on to work for various radio and television interests through the rest of his career before retiring in 1994 to attend to his wife, Linda Coyne Fosburg, as she battled terminal lung cancer.

Throughout his career, he continued to serve the dance organizations he loved. In the 1970s and 80s, he was on the board of directors of the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation; for 13 years he was on the board of trustees of Boston Ballet; and in 1998, he joined the board of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, becoming co-chair in 2004.

He remarried in 1999 to Rosemary Suozzi Lloyd and lived out his last 18 years in Lincoln, happily spending time with his grandchildren (who called him LewLew), doting on his loving dog Eddie, and sampling ice cream and pastries.

In addition to Rosemary, he is survived by his children Ben Lloyd, Amy McCarthy, Nick Lloyd, and Julia Johannsen; step-children Maurya Datka, Chris Mancini, and Annie Buckmaster; 14 grandchildren; his first wife Barbara Dilley; his second wife Theresa Dickinson; and his sister Nancy Lloyd.

A service will be held in his honor at 3:00pm on Tuesday, June 30 at First Parish in Lincoln. In lieu of flowers, gifts in his honor can be made to the Appalachian Mountain Club and First Parish Church in Lincoln.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord.  To share a remembrance or a condolence on Lew’s tribute page, click here.

Sharon L. King

A celebration of life will be held for Sharon Louise Kling on Monday, June 8 at 11:00am at the Concord Funeral Home (74 Belknap St., Concord).

Sharon  lived a vibrant 73 years and was beloved by her family and friends. Her life was spent in service to others, particularly supporting her passion for teaching children and caring for the elderly. She passed away on May 31, 2026, due to complications from a short battle with lymphoma.

Sharon was born in Malden on July 12, 1952, and was adopted shortly after by John and Louise Kling. Sharon spent her childhood between Lincoln and Long Beach in Rockport, where she enjoyed skiing, surfing, and anything water-related.

Sharon worked as an eye technician at Lexington Eye Associates before retiring, but her true passion was early childhood education. She received her associate degree in early childhood education at Lasell College and became a preschool teacher at Green Acres before her love of children transitioned into starting a family of her own by adopting two children from South Korea, Christopher and Joslyn Tarr. Sharon was overjoyed when her grandson was born, and her inner teacher came out as she played with him.

She is survived by her son Christopher and daughter-in-law Melissa, daughter Joslyn, grandson Kai, companion Rosemary Sammarco, and a handful of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. 

Family and friends will gather to honor and remember Sharon for a celebration of her life on Monday, June 8 at 11:00am . In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations in Sharon’s name to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN  38105, 800-805-5856.

Arrangements are under the care of Concord Funeral Home, which povided this obituary.  www.concordfuneral.com

Tim Barclay

Tim Barclay of Lincoln passed away peacefully at home on April 7, 2026. He was raised in Scarsdale, N.Y., and spent his summers in Mantoloking, on Barnegat Bay in New Jersey.

Upon graduation from Princeton in 1951, Tim served three years in the U.S. Navy, including six months in Korea. In 1954, he was the navigator of the winning Navy Academy yawl “Lively” in the Newport to Bermuda sailing race. In 1959, he received his Ed.M. in science education from Harvard University.

In his career, Tim was an enthusiastic science and math educator. He taught math and physical sciences at Darrow School in the Berkshires (1954-58) and at Commonwealth School in Boston (1958-71). In 1971, he became headmaster of Cambridge Friends School, a K-8 school.

As Sputnik spurred science and math curriculum reform in the early 1960s, Tim became an original member of the Elementary Science Study program at MIT, developing curriculum and teacher training. Starting in 1980, he worked at the Technical Education Research Center.

Tim was an active member of the Cambridge Friends Meeting, an avid writer, bird watcher, tennis player, sailor, baroque recorder player, and activist for environmental and social justice. He was a warm and welcoming person who took an active interest in others.

He is predeceased by his first wife and mother of his four children, Ann Arter Barclay; his partner, Antonia Stone; and his second wife, Elizabeth Taylor. He is survived by his four children, William, Mary, David, and Jeanne, his sister Barbara Ritter, and five grandchildren. He will be buried in the Lincoln Cemetery. 

The memorial service will be held on Saturday,  June 20 at noon at the First Parish in Lincoln (14 Bedford Road). He will be buried privately in the Lincoln Cemetery. Tim requested that any gifts be made to organizations fighting climate change.

Arrangements are under the care of Concord Funeral Home, which provided this obituary. To sign his online guest book, click here.

B-J Scheff

There will be a funeral service on Sunday, March 29 at 1:00pm for Betty-Jane “B-J” (Weiss) Scheff of Lincoln, who passed away peacefully and unexpectedly in the early morning hours of March 27 at the age of 93.

B-J was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. April 23, 1932 to Nat Weiss and Mabel (Bernstein) Weiss. She attended Brooklyn Friends School, Oberlin College, Columbia University, and Boston University, earning a bachelor’s in psychology, a master’s in education, and a doctorate in sociology.

B-J married Benson H. Scheff (dec. January 23, 1995) on May 31, 1953. Although Ben and B-J grew up blocks from each other in Brooklyn, they didn’t meet until college. They shared a love for the mountains and nature which they instilled in their four children, who grew up hiking and camping obsessively in the White Mountains and all around New England. For many years they owned a condo in Lincoln, NH that they used as a base for hiking, relaxing and enjoying the mountains.  

After a short stay and the birth of their first son in Virginia, the couple moved to Watertown, Mass., in 1956. There, B-J created a children’s theater program, teaching creative drama and dance. While the family grew, B-J worked as a social service researcher at McLean Hospital while continuing to pursue her master’s degree. In 1971, the family moved to Lincoln. There, B-J worked as a clinical Psychologist at Eliot Mental Health in Concord, and then as executive director of Wareham Area Counseling Service until she retired in 1994.

After retirement, B-J volunteered with the Massachusetts Red Cross on the Disaster Mental Health Team and provided services and support for families impacted by the 1999 Egyptian Air 990 crash and supervising support services around the 2005 Worcester warehouse fire. She also provided support for Red Cross volunteers returning to the Boston area after 9/11.

B-J was committed to finding affordable housing solutions. When she closed her father’s family business in New Jersey, she worked to sell the property to a developer specializing in affordable housing. She chaired the Lincoln Affordable Housing Commission and served on the board of the Lincoln Housing Trust. She was actively involved in coordinating the development of senior housing, the Commons (formerly the Groves) in Lincoln, where she eventually lived from 2013 until her death.

B-J was active for many years in the League of Women Voters, Women of Reform Judaism, and Temple Israel of Boston. She was committed to the women’s movement, political empowerment and involvement, and strengthening democracy. She felt her strong commitment to social justice stemmed from her experience as a Jew and the example set by her maternal grandparents who left a comfortable middle class life in Brooklyn in 1927 to go to Poland, Berlin, Paris, and then Lisbon to facilitate the resettlement of over 20,000 Jews away from the Nazi threat in Europe, founding the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). True to this spirit, in the early 2000s, she welcomed a family of young Sudanese refugees into her home.

She said of herself, “I tend to flow into empty spaces filling needs as I find them. I assume there is a way to solve the problem and so I learn new skills and develop new expertise. I trust people to deal fairly and I have never been disappointed.”

B-J was predeceased by her loving husband Benson H. Scheff, her dear daughter-in-law Faye Goldberg-Scheff, her cherished grandson Nick Scheff, and her adored older sister Diane “Dinny” (Miller) Ashe. She is survived by her children, Andrew Scheff of Lincoln, James (and Michelle) Bloom-Scheff of Wayland, Brian Scheff (and Joanne Hiromura) of West Newton, and Ann-Mara (and John) Lanza of Wellesley; and also by her grandchildren Danielle Scheff, Benjamin Scheff, Sarah Scheff (and Ted Pepe), Hannah Horan, Ben-Zion Bloom-Scheff, Mikaela Scheff (and Jake Harrington), Kyle Scheff, Rebecca Scheff, Nathan Lanza, and LK Lanza; and by her six great-grandchildren Nick Jr., Bella, Quentin, Keenan, Ashtin, and Maya. She is also survived by a large extended family, including her Sudanese “grandchildren” and many loving nieces and nephews.

The funeral service on Sunday, March 29, 2026 will be at Temple Israel, 477 Longwood Ave., Boston at 1:00pm (parking on the Riverway). Interment will be at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon. Shiva will be at the home of Andrew Scheff (137 Trapelo Road, Lincoln) on Sunday, March 29 from 4:00–6:00pm and 7:00pm–9:00pm, and continuing at the home of Ann-Mara Lanza of Wellesley on Monday, March 30 from 5:00–8:00pm.

Remembrances may be made to the Lincoln Housing Trust, 16 Lincoln Road, Lincoln, MA 01773 or HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), PO Box 97077, Washington, DC 20090-7077.