S. Donald Gonson has died on Feb 18, 2023, following a long struggle with bladder cancer at 86. Don was a beloved member of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, community, where he remained after moving to attend Harvard Law School in the mid-1950s.
North Cambridge’s Mussie Nirayo will be remembered Saturday with a memorial, burial and reception. The 22-year-old died Monday in Woburn in a shooting.
Former Cambridge city councillor, mayor and state representative Alice Wolf, whose political career began in 1974, died Thursday after a brief battle with leukemia.
Peter Valentine, the artist and eccentric whose Cambridgeport home became a landmark for its bright colors and otherworldly wisdom, died Tuesday at his home, according to Michael Monestime of the Central Square Business Improvement District.
Patricia Ann Dumont, 80, of Cambridge, passed away March 14, 2022. Born Jan. 23, 1942, in Island Falls, Maine, to Wilbert Dumont and Goldie (Dumont) Davis. Pat spent the better part of her adult life living in Cambridge.
James W. Swan, a recently tenured associate professor of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died Nov. 5 after what the school describes as “a medical event.”
The civil rights and education champion Bob Moses has died at 86. “He’s on the Mount Rushmore of civil rights activists,” one local leader said Sunday.
Former mayor Francis H. Duehay died Friday of complications from leukemia. He was elected to 14 terms on the City Council, starting in 1971, and served as mayor three times in a career in city politics that spanned 36 years before a 2000 retirement from public service.