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PostHeaderIcon DONALD M. STOCKWELL of GROTON, MASS, April 16, 1918 – November 4, 2016

 

 

Leverett, Donald M. Stockwell, 98, of Groton MA, formerly of Leverett MA, passed away peacefully on November 4, 2016 after a long and courageous battle with Alzheimer’s. Born in Springfield MA on April 16, 1918, he grew up in various locations including Amherst NH which he considered his boyhood home. He lost his father William Stockwell to influenza when he was an infant and was raised by his mother Florence Beechler Harris. After attending boarding school at St. Bernard’s School for boys in Gladstone NJ, he went to the University of New Hampshire where he played freshman football and graduated with a B.S. degree in civil engineering. He was a veteran of World War II where he was a Technical Sergeant in Gen. George Patton’s Third Army. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and received five battle stars and a bronze star. He was honorably discharged on November 30, 1945.  

 

 

 

He engineered dams for the USDA Soil Conservation Service and lived in Washington DC, Amherst NH, Havertown PA, and Boylston and Leverett MA. He was proud to have designed a farm pond for President Eisenhower. While in Washington DC, he met his first wife Dorothy Edna Shapland, a captain in the US Marines to whom he was married for 35 years.  After Dorothy’s death in 1982, he married Patricia Dubuque Cook, who passed away after twenty years of marriage in 2004. He sang in the Leverett Congregational Church choir, was a church deacon, and a volunteer fireman in Leverett. He loved traveling around world, hiking, skiing, singing, and playing his harmonica. He also enjoyed camping and RVing throughout the United States and wintered at Fun n Sun RV Resort in San Benito TX for many years. 

 

 

 

He is survived by his two daughters, Marjorie Bibeau and her husband Thomas of Broad Brook CT and Nancy Stockwell-Alpert and her husband Andrew of Sudbury MA. He has three grandchildren, Robert Bibeau and his wife Megan of Lexington Park MD, Timothy Bibeau and his wife Michelle of Glastonbury CT, and Erica Stockwell-Alpert of Medford MA. He has four great-grandchildren, Samuel, Kiera, Giuliana, and Thomas. He is also survived by two stepchildren, Alison Kyne of Shrewsbury MA and George Cook of Scituate MA.  

 

 

 

Donald had a love of life, a great spirit of adventure, and was loved by family and friends, including the entire staff and the residents of RiverCourt Residences, the assisted living community in Groton MA where he resided for the 12 years prior to his death. 

 

 

 

A memorial service is being planned at the First Congregational Church of Leverett MA, date to be announced. Private interment will take place in Amherst NH at a later date for the immediate family. In lieu of flowers, a donation in Donald’s name may be made to the First Congregational Church of Leverett, MA. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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