obits

The March 8 Obituaries article included an incorrect link and age in the obituary of Ray Tomlinson. The article has been updated to reflect this correction.

Mary Alice Boyce

Mary Alice Boyce, 93 (January 17) — worked in Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson administrations; St. Joseph’s communicant

James Jhun (January 17) — 2012 alumnus of Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School

Doris Garabedian Carlson, 88 (November 13, 2015) — resident of The Commons

Steven Lo, 97 (December 6, 2015) — architect and MIT alumnus

Allanson Sturgis, 96 (December 12, 2015) — teacher and part-time Lincoln Police officer

Judith Gross

A funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m on Saturday, Nov. 14 at St. Anne-in-the-Fields Church in Lincoln for Judith Cogswell Fiske Gross, who died on November 9 at the age of 91. She was active with the Pierce House, the Lincoln Nursery School and St. Anne’s. Click here for her obituary and memorial page.

Other obituaries

• Virginia E. Kennedy, 80 (November 5)
• Jane Thankful Smith, 74 (August 21)

Charles A. Hales, M.D., 74, of Lincoln died on October 31. He was the beloved husband for 50 years of Mary Ann (Little) Hales; the loving father of Sam, Chris and John; and brother of the late Mary Elizabeth “Betsy” (Hales) Carter. He is also survived by seven grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at the First Parish in Lincoln, where the guest minister Reverend Dr. John Lombard will officiate, at 11 a.m. on Friday, November 6. There will be a private interment in Lincoln Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to the  Recompense Fund, c/o The Maine Community Foundation, P.O. Box 42, Chebeague Island, ME. 0401 or the Home Base Program, which is dedicated to caring for veterans and their families. This organization is supported by the Massachusetts General Hospital and Emory University. Dr. Hales was a Navy veteran (Vietnam era).

Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord. To share a remembrance in his online guest book, visit www.deefuneralhome.com. A more detailed obituary is expected next week in the Lincoln Squirrel.

Gwen Morgan

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. at the First Parish Church in Lincoln for Gwen Morgan, who died on September 4 at the age of 90. She was a long-time advocate for and authority on quality child care and early childhood education. You can read her obituary here and a tribute here by the president of Wheelock College, where Morgan taught and was director of the Center for Career Development in Early Care and Education. That piece has links to several more tributes, including one by Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute.

Wesley Frost

A celebration of the life of Wesley Frost will be held on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 3:30 p.m. at the Pierce House. His obituary was published in the Lincoln Squirrel on July 8.

To the editor:

To all the friends and neighbors of Peggy Schmertzler, thank you for the many emails and cards expressing your fond memories of Peggy, condolences, empathy and emotional support for our entire family.

We’re resorting to this method of saying “thank you” to make sure that you know as soon as possible that we received and appreciated your messages. Hopefully, we will be in touch more directly in the not too distant future.

Sincerely,

The Schmertzler, Clapp and Bridgman families

Letters to the editor must be signed with the writer’s name and street address and sent via email to lincolnsquirrelnews@gmail.com. Letters must be about a Lincoln-specific topic, will be edited for punctuation, spelling, style, etc., and will be published at the discretion of the editor. Letters containing personal attacks, errors of fact or other inappropriate material will not be published.

Peggy Schmertzler

A service will be held in Lincoln on Sunday, August 30 for Peggy Schmertzler of Lincoln, who passed away peacefully on August 28, 2015. She was the beloved wife of Alvin Louis Schmertzler; mother of Francis Brooks Belford of New Zealand, Caleb Cushing Clapp of Gloucester and Margaretta Story Phillips of Santa Monica; and stepmother of Amy Anisimov of Newton and Michael Schmertzler of New Canaan, Conn.

Née Margaretta Stewart Bridgman, Peggy was born on November 17, 1931, the youngest daughter of Eveleth Wilson Bridgman, MD and Mary Cushing Whitridge Williams, both of Baltimore, where Peggy grew up. After graduating from the Bryn Mawr School in 1949, Peggy attended Radcliffe College, where she obtained in an AB in history in 1953. Shortly thereafter, Peggy married Samuel Francis Clapp, a Boston lawyer. The couple settled in Swampscott, where their children were born.

Following her divorce, Peggy moved to Cambridge and worked for the next 15 years in the nonprofit sector including positions at Children’s Hospital in Boston and Jobs for Youth, where she was Director of Employment and then Director of Fundraising. During that time, Peggy also received her MA in Continuing Education from Boston University. She married Al in 1974.

Peggy helped found in 1988 the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard. She was the organization’s first president and continued working until 2014 to promote the status of—and opportunities for—female students, faculty and alumnae at Harvard University.

After moving to Lincoln in 1985, Peggy was also involved in numerous local civic, social and political organizations including the Lincoln League of Women Voters, the Lincoln Democratic Town Committee, and the Council on Aging.

Peggy is the beloved grandmother of Claire Bridgman Belford of New Zealand and Austin Bridgman Clapp, Lida English Clapp and Elizabeth Clapp of Boston; and step-grandmother of Ian Michael Schmertzler and Ethan Jared Schmertzler both of New York, and Jenny Soo Jung Anisimov of Newton.

A memorial service for Peggy will be held at First Parish Church of Lincoln (14 Bedford Road, Lincoln) at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 30. Private family burial is in Lincoln Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity.

Arrangements are under the care of Susan M. Dee and Charles W. Dee, Jr., Dee Funeral Home of Concord.  To share a remembrance or send a condolence in Peggy’s online guestbook, please visit her obituary page on the Dee Funeral Home website.