Obituaries

Bomber Pilot, Longtime Hingham Resident Passes

Death notices and funeral announcements from Hingham funeral homes for Monday, Dec. 30.

Downing Chapel

Pyne Keohane Funeral Home

"By late 1944, Bill Lord, now a B17-G pilot, was assigned to the Eighth Air Force, 1st Air Division, 40th Combat Bombardment Wing, 306th Bomb Group near the town of Thurleigh. ... 

"When he returned from the war, Bill attended Wesleyan University on the GI bill, graduating in 1948. While there, he courted and married his sweetheart from summers at Groton Long Point, Barbara “Bobbie” Bailey, on September 7, 1946 at a ceremony in Waterbury, Connecticut. Bobbie and Bill made their home in Hingham, Massachusetts from 1951 to 2012, where they raised four children.."


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