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Thomas Everett Black, a Harvard graduate, Navy veteran, loving husband of 43 years, father of three and grandfather of eight, died on August 25, 2026 after a battle with cancer.

Born in Boston in 1943, he grew up in Lincoln. He was the middle child of Everett and Anne Black. After attending the Fenn School and Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated from Harvard University in 1966. He served for many years as class secretary and took great pride in writing the monthly newsletter for his class until the end of his life. He was very active in planning his class reunions and was also a member of the Happy Committee for many years, serving as an usher at Harvard’s Commencement, an annual event that he always looked forward to.

He served in the U.S. Navy from 1968-1972 as chief engineer of the U.S.S. Sedgwick County, LST 1123, in Vietnam. Upon leaving the Navy, he began his career in business development, a career in which he worked with banks, developers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.

Tom grew up sailing, which became a lifelong passion. He was an avid runner and was a member of the Concord Runners for 40 years. A talented model ship builder, he crafted intricate models from scratch in his workshop, and often donated these models to various organizations and friends. Additionally, Tom was a loyal member of his book club of 30 years, reading each book cover to cover. A man of routine, he read three newspapers in the morning, enjoyed a nap each afternoon, and his evening martini was straight up with olives.

He was an active member of every community in which he lived, serving on the Finance Committees of both Lincoln and Maynard. He was treasurer on the boards of C4RJ, a restorative justice nonprofit, and Epiphany School in the critical early days of the school’s history.

Tom was baptized at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields in Lincoln and remained a dedicated parishioner for the rest of his life. He was an active member of the Wednesday morning men’s group, a one-time treasurer, a member of the Altar Guild, a lay Eucharistic minister, lector, and crucifer.

Above all, Tom loved his family. He is survived by his beloved wife of 43 years, Nancy Ellis Black; his three children, Heather Davenport, Andrew Black and Sophie Dingle; two sons-in-law, Christian Davenport and Ryan Dingle; a daughter-in-law, Jessica Black; and eight grandchildren; as well as his brother, Stanly Black and partner Beth Humstone. He was predeceased by his sister, Pamela Hay. He also leaves behind a large extended family and many friends.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct.17, 2026, at 11:00am at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Church in Lincoln. In lieu of flowers, gifts in Tom’s name may be made to Communities for Restorative Justice, PO Box 961074, Boston, MA 02196 or to St. Anne’s. Arrangements are under the care of Concord Funeral Home, which provided this obituary.

Charles “Lem” Kusik, a devoted husband and father, accomplished engineer, lifelong adventurer, and endlessly curious student of the world, died on August 14, 2026, at the age of 92.

Lem was born in New York City on April 24, 1934, and spent his early years in New York, Estonia, and Richmond, Mass. His childhood in the Berkshires helped foster a lifelong love of the outdoors. He joined the Boy Scouts at age 12 and quickly embraced camping, hiking, orienteering, and wilderness skills, ultimately earning the rank of Eagle Scout shortly before his 15th birthday. Scouting also sparked interests that stayed with him throughout his life, including mineralogy, birding, skiing, and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for adventure.

Lem possessed an extraordinary intellect and an equally strong desire to put it to use. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor of science in chemical engineering in 1956 and then a master of science in nuclear engineering in 1959. He continued his education at New York University, where he pursued graduate studies in engineering and earned his doctor of science in engineering in 1961.

While pursuing his education, Lem also served his country. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve in 1956. During the Berlin Crisis in 1961, he was called to active duty, and his service was subsequently extended during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He completed his military service as a first lieutenant in 1963. While in the Army, Lem also joined a flying club and learned to pilot airplanes — another pursuit that suited both his curiosity and his adventurous spirit.

Lem went on to build a distinguished career as an engineering and management consultant. In 1964, he joined Arthur D. Little in Cambridge, Mass, where he would spend nearly four decades. His work took him around the world and involved projects for private industry as well as major governmental and international organizations, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His consulting work spanned industries including steel, chemicals, mining, energy, and manufacturing.

For Lem, however, work was never confined to an office. His career gave him the opportunity to pursue one of his greatest passions: seeing and understanding the world. Over the course of his life, he traveled to more than 70 countries across nearly every continent. Whether an assignment brought him to Botswana, Morocco, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Peru, Australia, Japan, Russia, Nepal, or elsewhere, Lem rarely passed up an opportunity to stay a little longer, explore somewhere nearby, meet people, or discover something new.

Adventure was a defining theme of Lem’s life. He hiked mountains, skied throughout the United States and abroad, flew airplanes, and continued seeking new experiences well into later life. His adventures occasionally placed him in situations that, in retrospect, even Lem admitted were perhaps more daring than sensible. He survived close calls on mountains, ski slopes, and in the cockpit, and later recounted them with characteristic humor and an appreciation for just how fortunate he had been. Reflecting on some of those experiences, Lem once jokingly wondered that if a cat had nine lives, how many he might have left.

Behind those accomplishments and adventures was a man with an abiding curiosity about the world around him. He loved learning, traveling, nature, birds, minerals, skiing, and the outdoors. He maintained a life list of more than 200 species of birds, kept track of the countries he had visited, and accumulated a lifetime of stories along the way. As Lem himself once wrote, “My whole life has been an adventure.”

Among the most important chapters of that adventure was the family he built.

Lem married Wendy Palu in 1984. Together, they eventually made the deeply considered decision to become parents through adoption. Lem believed strongly in the importance of opportunity. It had shaped his own life through education, hard work, travel, and the freedom to pursue his many interests, and he wanted to give children the same chance to discover who they could become.

In 1999, Lem and Wendy adopted Lida and Aleksander, a sister and brother from Russia. With their arrival, Lem began an entirely new adventure: fatherhood.

He brought to being a father many of the qualities that characterized the rest of his life. He believed in education, independence, curiosity, perseverance, and experiencing the world firsthand. He wanted his children to have opportunities, to think for themselves, and to pursue lives and ambitions of their own choosing. Most importantly, he wanted them to grow up knowing they had a family that loved them and believed in what they could become.

For a man who traveled to more than 70 countries and spent a lifetime seeking out new places and experiences, some of Lem’s most meaningful years were ultimately centered on home and family. Becoming a husband and father was not separate from his life of adventure and discovery; it became one of its most important parts.

Lem leaves behind far more than a remarkable list of professional achievements, degrees earned, countries visited, mountains climbed, or adventures survived. He leaves the example of a life lived with tremendous curiosity, determination, courage, independence, and an eagerness to see what might be around the next corner.

From his early days in New York, Estonia, and the Berkshires, to the classrooms of MIT and NYU, from military service during pivotal moments in American history, to an engineering career that carried him around the globe, and from the many adventures he collected along the way to the family he and Wendy created together, Lem packed an extraordinary amount of living into his 92 years.

He will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by his wife, Wendy; his children, Lida and Aleksander; and the family, friends, colleagues, and countless others whose lives intersected with his during a long life spent exploring, learning, and embracing the world around him.

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.

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 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.

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 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.