obits

John G. Power of Lincoln, formerly of Weekapaug, R.I., passed away peacefully on October 3, 2025, at the age of 92. He was predeceased by Pat Power, his loving wife of 59 years, and his youngest son, William. He leaves behind his partner of several years, Fay Boudrot.

John is survived by his son John G. Power III (Alessandra Araujo); his daughter Janet (Jan) Power (Peter Nobile); his grandchildren Eoin Power (Jelena Dokic), Nike Power, and Duncan Nobile; and his great-grandson, Lazar Power. John also leaves behind his sister Mary Power of Ossipee, N.H., his brother Frank of Marietta, Ga., and numerous nieces and nephews.

John was born in Medford and grew up in Winchester, the fourth of six children. He was a Korean War army veteran who returned home to marry Patricia Gillis and then attend college at the University of New Hampshire. John was always proud of his UNH affiliation and went on, in 1989, to become a founding board member of the UNH Foundation, which raises funds to support university programs, students, faculty, and facilities. He also contributed his time and skills as a board member of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford and Shawmut Bank in Boston, and as a trustee of the Weekapaug Foundation for Conservation.

A graduate of the Wharton School of Business, John spent his career, post-grad school, working for The Hartford Insurance Group in Hartford. While raising his family with Pat in Simsbury, Conn., John rose to senior vice president of the Investments department at The Hartford.

While John was serious about investing, he had a wry sense of humor, was an enthusiastic storyteller, and will be remembered by many for his readiness with a vintage song snippet. He was naturally curious about people and the world and had a strong belief in the importance of education. His serious and sometimes imposing demeanor belied a warmth that made guests feel welcome in his home, which he and Pat opened to many friends and family. A big sports fan, John would engage family in the annual “Bowl Picks” competition to choose the most winners of the college football bowl games on New Year’s Day. Winners received only bragging rights, but John (and Pat) zealously tracked the results and announced the winner each year with a modicum of fanfare.

John was someone who showed up — for his children’s and grandchildren’s many sports games, plays, or musical performances, and for friends and family who were going through important life passages. He will be greatly missed by those who knew him.

Relatives and friends will gather for a period of visitation on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 10:00–11:30 am at Dee Funeral Home (27 Bedford St., Concord). A memorial service will follow at 11:30am in the funeral home, followed by a reception.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in John’s memory to the UNH Foundations. Arrangements are entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary. Share a memory or to offer a condolence on John’s tribute page.

Robert Louis Solar, a longtime resident of Lincoln passed away peacefully in the presence of family on the morning of September 17, 2025 at the age of 79.

He is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Jane; his son Matt and his wife Lauren and their children Phoebe and Tyler; and his son Josh, his wife Danielle and their children Jackson and Sadie.

Bob grew up in Brookline as one of four boys. With the family’s boat moored in Boston Harbor, he developed a lifelong love of saltwater fishing from an early age. He attended the Belmont Hill School (’64), graduated from Colby College (’68), and later earned a graduate degree from the Wharton School (’70).

After Wharton, Bob spent time as a potter in New Hampshire, where he met Jane. They married in 1974 and lived in Chocorua, N.H., for several years before finally settling in Lincoln in 1979, where Bob joined his father, Hervey, at the family business in Boston.

In Lincoln, Bob and Jane kept busy caring for horses, dogs, cats, and chickens — and tending to all the yard work that came with them. In 1985, with the goal of spending more time as a family on the water, they bought a summer home in South Bristol, Maine, where Bob spent countless hours fishing for bluefish and striped bass and driving for the kids’ water sports.

When not enjoying the outdoors, Bob was a voracious reader, often finishing several novels a week. He loved napping on the couch with his dogs and was known for his quick wit and dry, sarcastic sense of humor.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust or to Damariscotta’s Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust. A celebration of life will be scheduled at a later date. Arrangements are entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary.  To share a remembrance or offer a condolence on Bob’s tribute page, please click here.

Carolyn Hendrie Bargmann, an esteemed architect whose vision shaped spaces and whose laughter lit rooms, passed away peacefully on August 10, 2025, surrounded by her loving husband, daughters, and close relatives.

Born in Plainfield, N.J., and raised in Colorado Springs, Colo., Carolyn’s early life was marked by curiosity, creativity, and a love of adventure. She attended Kent School for Girls (now Kent Denver), Smith College, and Williams College, and earned a master of architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Carolyn co-founded Bargmann Hendrie + Archetype in 1987 alongside her husband, Joel Bargmann. Together, they built a practice renowned for its design excellence, collaborative spirit, and enduring impact.

Carolyn distinguished herself as an industry leader in the design of corporate headquarters and office buildings — designing spaces that encouraged movement, fostered collaboration, and created the chance encounters that reconnect people across an organization every day. Over the course of her career, she designed more than twelve million square feet of office interiors for clients nationwide in financial services, law, entertainment, and technology, and earned numerous AIA and industry design awards. She was especially proud of her work in downtown Boston for Bain Capital and Goodwin Procter. Carolyn brought to every project a rare blend of ambition, artistry, and personality — qualities that continue to resonate in her work today.

She will be remembered not only for her professional achievements, but for the light and laughter she brought to all who knew her. She had a magnetic personality, boisterous laugh, quick wit, and gift for friendship. She loved hosting gatherings with family and friends, carrying on family traditions, engaging in clever wordplay, spending time in nature, and living an active lifestyle. Carolyn’s life was one of creativity, connection, and joy.

In recent years, Carolyn lived at Bridges, a memory care home in Lexington. Her family is deeply grateful for the devoted caregivers and team at Clear Guidance who surrounded her with compassion through her final days.

Carolyn is survived by her devoted husband of 45 years, Joel; her daughters and their husbands (Jane Bargmann and Nate Akers, Sarah and Jake Fay, and Leslie and Mason Brunnick); four cherished grandchildren; and her sisters Ann (a.k.a. “Funny),” Ellie, Laura, and Jane Hendrie.

A celebration of Carolyn’s life will be held on October 18, 2025 from 1:00–4:00pm at the deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln. A remembrance ceremony will be held starting at 1:30pm, reception to follow. 

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Codman Community Farms, 58 Codman Road, Lincoln MA 01773 near Carolyn and Joel’s home. Arrangements are entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary. To share a remembrance or to offer a condolence on Carolyn’s tribute page, click here.

A celebration of her life will be held at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln on Saturday, July 19 at 2:30pm for Mary Allen Griffing Spindler, who died on July 11 with her two children, David and Henry, by her side.

Mary was a thoroughly invested resident of Lincoln starting in 1968. In 1986, she was part of the successful effort to revert what was then called Sandy Pond, where Thoreau first had a cabin, to its earlier name of Flints Pond. She was a member of the Lincoln Historic District Commission and was active in the Lincoln Historical Society, serving as its president for a time. Instead of “historic” or “historical,” in conversation with family or close friends she insisted on using “hysteric” or “hysterical.” As a member of the commission, she was sometimes in the minority, writing dissenting opinions on the side of preservation.

Mary never stopped learning. When her son Henry was majoring in chemistry in college, she pulled out her own college chemistry textbooks and tried to get up to speed. Books, NPR, magazines, and newspapers were her source materials, the latter two of which she would clip to create voluminous piles (known in the family as “rubble stacks”) for the further edification of her sons.

When her sons were young, she built for them from scratch a full-sized carpentry workbench and a child-sized faux sink and stove kitchenette. She kept the kitchenette for her grandchildren to use, along with a comprehensive collection of artifacts from her own past and those of her family members.

She was quick to express gratitude in speech and writing. Most of the postage stamps that she used were for thank-you notes, birthday wishes, and anniversary commemorations. She was modest to the point of not mentioning her accomplishments, making this obituary difficult to write with the accuracy that she would demand, even for her sons. Her husband had to tell her sons about her efforts to rename Sandy Pond, because she did not mention this episode to them. She liked to joke with her husband that plaques and monuments had been erected to commemorate places that he had visited, even as a child.

Mary Allen Griffing was born on July 24, 1939, in Harrisonburg, Va., to M. Scudder Griffing, originally of Shelter Island, N.Y., and A. Mildred (Allen) Griffing, originally of Somerset, Ky. At the time, her family was living in Luray, Va.; soon after, the family moved to Richmond.

While the family lived in Virginia, her father was employed by the National Park Service. In the mid-1950s, the family moved to Shelter Island, where nearly all of her father’s siblings lived. There she started high school before attending Friends Academy in Locust Valley, N.Y., with tuition assistance from a family friend. She majored in American Studies at Stanford University (a “junior university,” as she sometimes called it). She felt fortunate to benefit from classes with the novelist Wallace Stegner, and other professors whose names and classes she long remembered. She played on the women’s basketball team, which was not recognized as a legitimate varsity team until many years later, when she was honored with a varsity letter.  Alongside her coursework, she held a job as a tour guide and pulled out bits of her spiel when the family visited the campus decades later. She graduated in 1961. The following year, she graduated with a master’s degree in education from Harvard.

Mary met James W. Spindler of Middletown, Ohio in 1957, and they were married in Shelter Island in 1964. He died in 2019 after living for many years with Parkinson’s disease, and she was an extraordinarily diligent and indefatigable caregiver for him in his later years. She is also predeceased by her sister, Barbara Wagner, who lived much of her adult life in Darien, Conn. In addition to her two sons, she leaves behind five grandchildren.

She worked as an elementary school teacher at Hanscom Air Force Base before getting married, and tutored reading at the Carroll School in Lincoln for much of the 1990s and the early 2000s. As an elementary school teacher, one of her favorite classroom teaching techniques was to have her students listen to music and draw what came to mind. She worked at the Lincoln Library in the latter part of the 1980s and the early 1990s.

Mary loved music. She was active in the St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church choir for decades, serving for a time on its committee to hire an organist. She played the piano avidly. She organized activities for her children and others, including a concert band conducted by Ken Keyes and a soccer team coached by John Walker. To the delight of her sons, she did all that was humanly possible to have her family’s cocker spaniel, Kabuki, give birth to three litters of AKC-approved puppies, one of which grew up to be Jacqueline du Pré.

In her young adulthood, she had always wanted to live in an old house. She realized this ambition in 1974, when she and her family moved into a house built at various times during the nineteenth century. She derived joy from researching its history from oral and written sources and in working in the gardens, fields, and woods around it. Her father had studied landscape architecture in college; from him she learned a vast set of plants names and the sense for which trees to cut down. She actively participated in the clearing of field-encroaching trees and bushes through her late 60s, and hauled firewood for her wood stove into her 80s. She moved to Carleton-Willard Village in Bedford in 2023.

A celebration of her life will be held at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln on Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 2:30pm. A reception will follow.

Donations in her memory may be made to St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church’s Music Fund or P.O. Box 6, Lincoln MA 01773; or the Lincoln Historical Society, P.O. Box 6084, Lincoln, MA 01773.

Nancy Campbell Hammond of Lincoln died at her home on April 23, 2025 after two years of living with cancer. She was 87.

A native of Fremont, Neb., Nancy graduated from the University of Nebraska and moved to Pasadena, Calif. There, she embarked on a diverse career of work with children that ranged from researching childhood development, to teaching deaf children, to contributing to the nascent Head Start program to working as a children’s librarian.

She met and married John Hammond in California, and together they moved to the Boston area, purchasing a fixer-upper farmhouse in Lincoln that would be their home for the next half-century. While raising their two daughters, Sarah and Kate, Nancy completed a master’s degree in children’s literature at Simmons College. Later, Nancy reviewed children’s books for the Horn Book Magazine and worked as a children’s librarian at the Maynard and Cambridge Public Libraries, introducing countless kids to the joys of books.

Nancy’s curiosity about the birds at her backyard feeder developed into a lifelong interest in birding and the environment. She and John, often with Sarah and Kate and later their grandchildren, traveled the world to see birds, wildlife, and explore other cultures. Nancy worked tirelessly to remove exotic, invasive species from the family’s eight acre property. She was an avid supporter of Drumlin Farm, Mass Audubon, the Conservation Law Foundation, and the Boston Nature Center.

Nancy was a Boston and Nebraska sports fan, a reader, a naturalist, and a cultural explorer, always trying new restaurants, museums and music happenings in the Boston area with John and sharing her finds with friends. She was wonderfully dedicated to the causes she believed in, and to her family and friends. She was independent, stubborn, loyal, and warm-hearted.

Nancy was predeceased by her husband, John, and her brother, Kent Campbell. She is survived by her sister, Mary Pedersen, her daughters Sarah (Tim) and Kate (Geoff), and four grandchildren.

Services for Nancy will be private. Interment will be at Lincoln Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please do something for the environment. Arrangements are entrusted to Dee Funeral Home & Cremation Service of Concord, which provided this obituary. To share a remembrance or offer a condolence on Nancy’s tribute page, click here.

(Editor’s note: This obituary was updated with corrections on April 25.)

Jeannie Mallary — beloved mother, wife, and friend — passed away peacefully on April 1, 2025, overlooking the Connecticut River, as it ran by the property of her late husband’s family farm. She was surrounded by her loving family. Even though her 89- year-old mind was still sharp as a tack and her interest in politics, art, and all manner of intellectual pursuits was as vibrant as ever, she knew her body was failing her rapidly. She courageously chose her own death with dignity, thanks to Act 39 — a bill she and her late husband worked hard to have passed here in Vermont.

Jeannie was the daughter of John and Mary Loud and raised in Lincoln, Mass., in a household filled with music. She was predeceased by her parents and brothers, John (Jock) and Rob. Not long after graduating from Radcliffe, she fell in love with and married Jonathan N. Brownell and they moved to Maple Corner in Calais, Vt., where they raised their three children. Jeannie was an active member of each community she lived in: volunteering, hosting, and generally being involved. She was the very first librarian at the brand-new Calais Elementary School, a role that brought her passion for stories and literature to that place, and inspired many young people’s curiosity thereby.

Music filled her life and she passed it on whenever she could. Jeannie most enjoyed directing and singing in numerous local choirs. It was the Old West Church in Calais that was closest to her musical heart. Another lifelong passion was her love of horses and horsemanship. In the second half of her life, Jeannie married her second great love, Richard Mallary, with whom she spent 32 wonderful years before his passing. Her professional life expanded. Among her many endeavors, Jeannie served as director of the Vermont Ethics Network, championing all manner of concerns ethical with a particular emphasis on end-of-life issues.

In her final years, she lived in Hanover, N.H., first among many friends at Willow Springs Circle and then at Kendal at Hanover, where she was warmly welcomed and cared for. She leaves behind her three loving children, eight grandchildren, two (soon four) great-grandchildren, and many, many beloved relatives and friends. We will all miss her very much. Goodbye, Mum. Goodbye, Didi. Goodbye, Jeannie. We love you!

A celebration of life was held on April 18, 2025 in the Gathering Room at Kendal at Hanover. Memorial contributions may be made to the Old West Church in Calais and the Big Life Foundation. Arrangements are under the direction of Day Funeral Home in Randolph, Vt. To leave a message for the family or to send flowers or plant a tree in remembrance, click here.

David once wrote, “My career has had a consistent inner theme and purpose — a calling, perhaps — that has been with me while being a university chaplain, an urban planner, and a county attorney Fairfax, Va.”

After his theological degrees at Yale Divinity School, where he was heavily involved in urban poverty issues in neighborhoods, and after becoming ordained in the UCC, he became a university chaplain at Drew and Vanderbilt universities. While fighting the racial divides in our country by organizing students and participating himself with them in marches in Selma and Montgomery, including “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, he heard Dr. King calling all Americans to look beyond the moment and solve the structural problems which perpetuate poverty and racism through urban zoning, housing, and development. He then left university chaplaincy to acquire the additional skills he needed with a master of city planning degree at the University of Pennsylvania.

In the next decade he worked as an urban planner, primarily in obtaining financing for affordable housing with national law firms in Washington, D.C. In 1973 he began working for the long-range Comprehensive Planning Department of Fairfax County, and later for the Environment and Policy Division of that office.

In 1982 he acquired a J.D. degree from. Georgetown University Law School to manage the legal cases surrounding affordable housing and land use and was a county attorney for the Redevelopment and Housing Authority of Fairfax County.

He was preceded in death by his parents Walter Stroh and Betty Sampson Stroh, but his parting is deeply mourned by a large family: his brother Stephen F. Stroh and Susan Hoffman Stroh, and his sister Deborah Stroh Tezich and Greg Tezich and their families. He was married to Carol Vines Moss and they had two daughters, Sarah Stroh Jeppesen and Christine Stroh Reddy. His grandchildren are Dylan and Asa Franchak, and Alexandra, Ravi and Vikram Reddy.

After divorce he was married to Susan Mockenhaupt, who died in 2009. He was married again in 2013 to Jane Chowning von Maltzahn. His stepchildren through her are Philip von Maltzahn and Stephanie Slates, Geoffrey von Maltzahn and Maxine Sharkey Giammo, and Julia von Maltzahn. His step-grandchildren are Felix and Norris von Maltzahn; Eva Orion, Leo, Wolf and Zelda von Maltzahn; and Valentina and Carlos Rangel.

David was born in Boulder, Colo., spent most of his career in Fairfax County, Va., and lived in Lincoln the last year of his life, dying in hospice in Wayland. He spent a year at Exeter University in England and enjoyed a lifetime of holidays in Devon.

The family give thanks to the communities of St. Anne’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln and Christ Church Episcopal in Andover where he was treasurer, and to our neighbors and friends in Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Special thanks to our priest the Rev. Garrett Yates and Dr. Philip Saylor and his cancer team at Mass. General Brigham in Boston for their expert care for ten years during his bout with cancer. David volunteered for a year of experimental treatment to benefit others.

Family and friends will gather to honor and remember David for his memorial service on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 11:00am at St. Anne’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln.

Keep us all, O Lord, so awake in our calling,
So deep in service to you in the world,
So aware of our neighbors’ sufferings
That at the last day we may sleep in thy peace
and wake into thy glory, majesty and love,
Where time has vanished,
and joy shall shine in the dawn of your new day. Amen.

Donations in his name may be made to: St. Anne’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 147 Concord Rd., P.O. Box 6, Lincoln, MA 01773; Doctors Without Borders, P.O. Box 5030, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5030; or ACLU, 125 Broad St., 18th floor, New York, NY 10004; or to a civil rights or environmental cause of your choosing. Arrangements are under the care of Concord Funeral Home, which provided this obituary. Click here to write in his online guest book.

Lester Ira “Les” Gordon, of Lincoln passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

For 52 years, he was the beloved husband of Dafna Krouk-Gordon. Loving father of Ilana Gordon Brown and son-in-law Craig, and Alexis Vichniac and son-in-law Avi. Adored grandfather of Tyler, Lily, Nate, Ella, Jeremy, and Zach.

Services at the Levine Chapels (470 Harvard St., Brookline) on Sunday, March 30 at 12:30pm with livestream viewing available using the following link: www.levinelive.com/lestergordon. Burial will follow at the Shara Tfilo Cemetery, 776 Baker St., West Roxbury. Shiva at his late residence following the burial through 7:00pm and continuing Monday, March 31 from 5:00-8:00pm.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to TILL, Inc., 20 Eastbrook Rd., Dedham MA 02026, www.tillinc.org