Jane Venckauskas Reported that our classmate, William (Bill) McKeown passed into eternal life on April 4, 2025. The following is his obituary:

William M. McKeown of East Bridgewater passed away peacefully on April 4, 2025 at the age of 82. William was raised and educated in Brockton and attended Brockton High School with the class of 1960. After graduating he worked at Randy’s Shoe in Randolph. He later served in the United States Army, stationed in Germany as a radio repair technician. William was a bar manager for many years at various restaurants in the Brockton area. He worked at Shaw’s warehouse and also enjoyed many side jobs as a painter.

William enjoyed reading, especially mysteries and detective stories. He took pride in working in his yard and on his 1979 MG Midget while listening to classical music and enjoyed taking walks with his dog, Chick. William loved playing cribbage with friends and was a member of the Enterprise Club of Brockton and a lifetime member of The Commercial Club of East Bridgewater.

William was the loving father of Stacey McKeown of East Bridgewater, Danielle (McKeown) Gaffney, her husband Mark of Rockland and the late Michael McKeown. He was the cherished grandfather of Hunter and the brother of Sandra Lacy and Patricia Arapoff.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a visitation in memory of William on Sunday, April 13, 2025 from 1-3PM in the MacKinnon Funeral Home, Whitman. A private burial will take place at a later date in the Massachusetts National Cemetery.

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Judy Higgins Donohue reported that our classmate, Marie E. (Therrien) Dunham has passed on to eternal life. The following is her obituary:

Marie E. (Therrien) Dunham, 83, longtime resident of Avon, passed away on March 18, 2025. Born and raised in Brockton, oldest daughter of the late Arthur and Helen (White) Therrien, she graduated from Brockton High School in 1960 and from Northeastern University in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. For 40 years Marie was employed in the hematology department as a laboratory supervisor at Good Samaritan Medical Center.

In addition to being a devoted homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother, Marie was an active parishioner and CCD teacher at St. Michael Church, longtime PTA/Booster member with Avon Public Schools, and a member of the Avon Council on Aging. She also enjoyed sewing, reading, and caring for her many pets.

Marie was the beloved wife of Alan R. Dunham for 59 years, loving mother of Michelle E. Dunham of Brockton, Greg Dunham & his wife Loida of Mansfield, Christopher Dunham & his wife Paola of Newton, and Stephanie Lind of Avon, dear grandmother of Olivia, Alec, Maya, Jessica, and Matthew, and close sister of Jeanne Gadless of Florida and Janet Miele & her husband John of Plympton, and an aunt of many nieces and nephews.

All are welcome to calling hours Tuesday March 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Waitt Funeral Home, 850 North Main St. Brockton, her funeral Wednesday March 26 at 9 a.m. from Waitt Funeral Home, funeral Mass at 10 a.m. at St. Michael Church, Avon and burial at St. Michael Cemetery, Avon. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Livestreaming of Marie's funeral Mass will be available.

Judy Higgins Donohue reported that our classmate Robert D. Studley Jr., has passed on to eternal life. His obituary follows:

Robert D. Studley Jr. of East Bridgewater, passed away on March 5, 2025 surrounded by his loving family.

Judy Higgins Donohue found that our classmate, William (Bill) St. Lawrence has passed on to eternal life.... The following is his obituary:

William (Bill) Francis St. Lawrence of Sonoma, Calif., passed away on Jan. 30, 2024 after a long illness. He was born in Brockton, Mass., on Jan. 17, 1941, the youngest of four children of the late Margaret (Lynch) St. Lawrence and Charles St. Lawrence. Following the early death of his father, he was raised in Brockton by his mother and three of her siblings, Mary, Catherine, and Lawrence Lynch.

After graduating from Boston University with a BS in Engineering, he earned an M.S. in Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MS and PhD in Earth Science from Montana State University with research focused on avalanches. He worked at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), in Hanover, New Hampshire, before moving to California, where he founded and ran Polar Alpine, Inc., an Arctic and alpine-focused research, engineering, and environmental monitoring company in Berkeley for more than 45 years-without ever losing his Boston accent.

In his younger years, Bill was an exceptional powder skier, and rock and mountain climber. The peaks he summitted included Denali in Alaska and multiple mountains in South America. In the late 1960s, with a battered blue VW van as his home base, he regularly scaled the sheer faces of El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. In more recent years, Bill and his wife Ana Maria divided much of their time between Ana Maria's native El Salvador and their home in Sonoma, where they enjoyed making and consuming wine from their backyard vineyard and olive oil from their own olive trees.

Bill is survived by his beloved wife of 30-years, Ana Maria Dueñas of Sonoma and Berkeley; his son Andrew, wife Megan Kennedy and their daughters, Clara and Arden, of Bow, Wash.; his daughter Nicole and partner Scott Hargis of Oakland, Calif; his stepchildren Ximena Arestizabal and sons Tyler and Marcus; Gonzalo Arestizabal and his wife Kalene and their children Marcelo, Wallace, and Vivi; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his brother, Leo, and sisters, Margaret S. Carey, and Elizabeth (Betty) Walsh.