
Obituaries Editor
Bryan Marquard has written obituaries since 2005 for the Globe , where he has worked since 2000. For more than 35 years he has been reporter and editor at publications including Newsday on Long Island and smaller newspapers in New England, where he has lived most of his life.
Charlie Davidson, 93, of Cambridge, who died Dec. 2, was the longtime proprietor of the Andover Shop, selling menswear in Harvard Square where he was known as the “Baron of Bespoke.”
Dorothy Brown, 112, who moved to Framingham earlier this year, was the state’s oldest resident when she died Nov. 26.
The former Boston College baseball star popularized the Ice Bucket Challenge on social media as a way to focus attention on ALS, from which he suffered.
Howard Cruse, 75, of Williamstown, was a pioneering artist in LGBTQ comics and was known as “the godfather of queer comics.”