Lynnfield Obituaries

Lifelong tennis player, golf club champion at Salem C.C.

LYNNFIELD — Edith H. O’Connor, 96, of Lynnfield died on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 at Rosewood Nursing Home in Peabody.

Born in Minneapolis, Minn. on Dec. 22, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Francis and Edith (Haines) Legro.

Mrs. O’Connor was a graduate of…

U.S. Navy Seabee in Vietnam War; engineer worked on Skylab, Voyager 1 & 2 space probes

LYNNFIELD — Mr. David L. Ross, 70, of Lynnfield, died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 at the Kaplan Family Hospice House, Danvers after a brief illness. He was the husband of Lillian G. (Foglietta) Ross, with whom he shared 45…

Enjoyed traveling, the beach and shopping

LYNNFIELD — Lynda S. (Wickey) DeCourcy, 52, of Lynnfield, formerly of Salem, wife of the late Jay T. DeCourcy, passed away on Wednesday evening, September 10, 2014 at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington following a brief illness.

She was born in Gloucester on May 22, 1962…

Mother of 3, grandmother of 4

WAKEFIELD — Ruth Weipert, 83, of Wakefield and formerly from Canton, died Aug. 26, 2014 in Wakefield.

She leaves her children, Judith Sacks and her husband Stan of Lynnfield, Sylvia Kano and her husband Igor of Wolfsburg, Germany, and Steven Weipert and his wife Edith of Alamogordo, N.M.; four…

Local resident was a talented artist

LYNNFIELD — Rose Calvo Giunta, 91, of Lynnfield passed away peacefully on Sept. 4 of natural causes, surrounded by her family.

Born in Wakefield on March 6, 1923, she was the daughter of Antonio and Sebastiana (Tine) Calvo. Rose married Armand T. Giunta, also of Wakefield, in 1949…

Former First Lady of Newburgh, N.Y.

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Madeline Dolores (Juba) Shaw, 93, a Newburgh resident for all her life and widow of George J. Shaw Jr., died on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the Wingate at Beacon Nursing Facility.
Madeline was born February 12, 1921 in Newburgh, N.Y. to John and Mary Juba…