After the Aug. 9 death of Peter Valentine, an artist and eccentric whose Cambridgeport home became a landmark for its bright colors and otherworldly wisdom, Cathie Zusy submitted this because “it might inspire others to share their thoughts of this remarkable Cambridge figure.”

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.

Cambridge police officer Lawrence Hudson was found unresponsive at his Woburn home early Monday and declared dead, police have announced with “deep and profound sadness.”

A late resolution Monday honored legal scholar, civil rights champion, Harvard educator and Cambridge resident Lani Guinier, who died Friday.

Bell hooks, the prominent feminist scholars and author, died Wednesday at 69 in Kentucky. “Heartbreaking” doesn’t fully depict the enormity of her passing. 

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.

A Somerville doctor with ties to Harvard and the Cambridge Health Alliance, and on the brink of announcing a local Center for Immigrant Health Research, died Nov. 3 after being hit by a car.