THE LIVES THEY LIVED

About the issue

It is our tradition to reserve our last issue of the year to remember some of the Springfi eld-area people who have died in the past year. Those we write about here are people who have come to the attention of our writers, and others brought to IT by readers answering our call to contribute their personal essays to “Remembering.” These people were not all prominent or wellknown in the community – although some certainly were – but they were all prominent to their families and in the circles they inhabited. Each life has a story. The 23 lives chronicled here remind us that each one makes a contribution to the community fabric and each one will be missed. We urge you to read them all. Together these remembrances can represent all the hundreds who departed in 2016 having made Springfi eld a better place by the manner of their living.

–Fletcher Farrar, editor and publisher