Birth Date: 1946-07-18

Deceased Date: 1995-08-03

Birth Date: 1946-10-13

Deceased Date: 2012-04-01

Obituary:
Richard Lee “Shtix” Adelman

October 13, 1946 - April 1, 2012

Richard Lee Adelman died peacefully of natural causes on April 1, 2012 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was in his wife’s arms and in the presence of one of his closest friends, Ken Eisenstein, at the time of his passing.

Richard had two great loves throughout his life: his devoted wife, Janice Adelman, and his music. Richard started playing drums at age 8 and studied under several Boston-area teachers, including percussion legend George Stone. A staple of the Boston music scene from a young age, Richard went on to play in bands with music greats including Donna Summer, Jonathan Edwards, Rita Coolidge, the Hues Corporation, Martin Mull, and Billy Vera and the Beaters. Richard’s role as Donna Summer’s drummer on her album "Live and More" earned him a Platinum Record and his role on Jonathan Edwards’s hit single "Sunshine" earned him a Gold Record.

While Richard was at Brookline High School, he met the love of his life, Janice Sokoloski, a Saint Mary’s Catholic School girl with a soft spot for the Jewish drummer at her high school dance. Despite the social and religious prejudices against such relationships in the early 1960’s, the two formed a life-long bond and went on to marry and raise a family together. The strength of that bond endured through significant hardship over the years, including an automobile accident in 1985 that left Richard quadriplegic and ended his career as a touring musician overnight. Richard remained active in the music scene following this accident, including as a performer and as an advocate for disabled musicians.

Born in Brookline, MA on October 13, 1946 to Dr. Norman and Mrs. Ruth Lewitus Adelman, Richard was a Massachusetts resident for most of his life. Richard first left Brookline for Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he studied business at the University of North Carolina from 1965-1968. Richard and Janice started their family in 1965 with the birth of their first son, Eric Lee. As a young family, Janice and Richard followed Richard’s early music career around the Northeast. In 1977, two years after their second son, Zachariah Emile, was born, Richard and his family moved to Los Angeles, where Richard’s music career flourished. Richard and Janice moved back to Massachusetts year-round in 1997, building their dream home on Cape Cod. After residing in Eastham for over a decade, Richard and Janice relocated to Hillsborough, NC in early 2010.

Richard was a warm, soft-spoken man who embraced all he met with his kind heart. He will be remembered best for his gentle spirit, his devotion to family, his incredible musical talent, his love of sports (he was a fervent Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox, Celtics and Tar Heels fan), and his astonishing resilience. Whether performing for sold out arenas of fans, working as an advocate for disabled musicians, or playing percussion and dancing during evening “music hour” with his beloved granddaughters, Richard shared his love of music with many people throughout his life. Richard’s capacity for spreading joy and remaining positive throughout the most challenging times of his life served as an inspiration to all who knew him.

Richard leaves behind a large circle of family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Janice Adelman; parents, Norman and Jeri Adelman; son, Eric Adelman, his wife, Beverly, and their daughters, Ashley and Haley; son, Zachariah Adelman and his wife, Caroline; brother, Michael Adelman, his wife, Sharyn, and their children, Craig Adelman and Rachael Pelletier and their families; brother, Allen Chin, his wife Linda, and their sons, Adam and Andrew; sisters, Leslie Chin and Suzanne Martel; sister-in-law, Arleen Turk, her daughters, Julie Rizzo, Robyn LaFrance, Sarah Johnston, and their children.

Deceased Date: 2015-09-10

Obituary:
Phyllis R. Lyman
January 16, 1947 – September 10, 2015

Phyllis R. Lyman, of Peabody, MA passed away on September 10, 2015 at Kaplan Family Hospice in Danvers, MA surrounded by her family. She was the loving wife to Joe, wonderful daughter of Lillian and Barney Bebchick, sister to Stan and Sandy, mother to Michelle, Andrew and Matthew, aunt of many nieces and nephews, mother-in-law to Greg, Christine and Ruth, grandmother to Abby, Claire and Lewis.

Phyllis’ greatest pleasure was to be a parent to her three kids and grandma to her three wonderful grandkids. She took that love of children, went back to school and started her 20 year career as a preschool teacher – first at Temple Ner Tamid and then moved on to Tot Spot at Landmark School in Beverly. Unfortunately she was forced to retire after being diagnosed and treated with lymphoma in 2005.

Her hobbies were her friends that she has made over 68 years from Dorchester, Brookline High School, Chandler School and of course all her Peabody friends. All these relationships have given her an amazing outpouring of support and a constant stream of visitors recently as her condition worsened. Her family and many friends and frequent visits by her loving grandchildren Abby, Claire and Lewis and the support of her three kids and their always supportive spouses helped her travel this tough journey.

Birth Date: 1946-08-08

Deceased Date: 1965-11-16

Obituary:
Accidental death in South Vietnam

Birth Date: 1946-09-09

Graduation year: 1964

Deceased Date: 2024-06-22

Obituary:
Susan Finer Obituary
Susan B. Finer

Norwich, VT - Susan B. Finer, 77, of Norwich died on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, about a year after being diagnosed with late-stage esophageal cancer.

She was surrounded by family, which was the most important thing to her throughout her life. She is survived by her husband Chad, their four children Jon, Ben, Emily and Dan, her grandkids Addie and Lewie, and her sisters Ellen and Elizabeth.

Susan and Chad, who were both raised in Brookline, Mass. and were in the same high school class, celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary on June 16.

They were married a few weeks after graduating from college in 1968–Susan from Smith, like her beloved late mother Sylvia. Less than a month later, they moved to Sierra Leone for two years, where they served as Peace Corps volunteers, a defining experience in their lives.

Susan then began a long career as an educator, starting at the Putney School in Putney, Vermont, in the early 1970s. She later taught social studies at Hanover High School, before serving as Principal at the Richmond Middle School from 1986 until her retirement in 2007.

She loved her colleagues on the Richmond School staff and took great pride in her students, whom she enjoyed reconnecting with throughout their lives. While her own kids, all of whom attended the Norwich and Hanover public schools, had more mixed feelings about having their mom at school, they grew to appreciate it later in life.

Susan, who lived on Brigham Hill in Norwich for more than 40 years, loved a house teeming with friends, neighbors, children, pets, and lively conversation. She had a unique ability to whip up incredible meals from whatever she happened to have on the shelves or in the fridge, for however many hungry guests showed up, at whatever hour of the day or night. Everyone was always welcomed with warmth and personal attention, even when they arrived on no notice, and especially at holidays like Thanksgiving, whether they were an old friend or someone who would become a new one.

Susan loved reading novels, making pies, and, in recent years, even after she got sick, reading stories to her grandkids and playing bridge with many of her closest friends from the Upper Valley. She had a gift for forming countless close bonds with people all over the world, including some she may have only met briefly and long ago.

Throughout her life, her most cherished roles were wife, mother, mother-in-law, and perhaps most joyously, grandmother. She and Chad, a retired emergency room doctor, were equal and loving partners in all things and a world-class model of how to build and live a good and decent life.

They traveled the world together, often to visit their far-flung kids-to India, China, Italy, Mexico, England and to national parks across the western United States.

As devoted, working parents of four, they poured themselves into raising their children, spending decades of nights and weekends at hockey, soccer and football, lacrosse and tennis practices and games. Susan always told her kids, often after one of their occasional intra-family squabbles, that they would eventually be each other's closest and most important friends.

While they might have rolled their eyes at the time, her children now acknowledge that she was right about that and so many other things. Her family will miss her more than they can put into words.

Birth Date: 1947-01-07

Deceased Date: 1967-05-08

Birth Date: 1945-12-07

Deceased Date: 1994-12-09

Birth Date: 2023-08-29

Birth Date: 1946-11-29

Deceased Date: 1970-09-05

Birth Date: 2023-08-29

Deceased Date: 2009-09-16