Harvard Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of William Butcher
William Sherman Butcher, PhD passed away on December 5, 2013 in Concord, MA at age 91. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by loving caregivers, after a long battle with Parkinson's. Born January 26, 1922 in Cambridge, MA, the son of the late William Laramy and Annie Dean (Sherman) Butcher and brother to the late Marion Clarke, he graduated from Belmont Hill, Harvard University, and received his doctorate from the Scripps Institution. Bill had a life-long love of the ocean. He earned his...