GEORGE LAWSON WRENN

1928 - 2016

WRENN, George Lawson Died January 28, 2016, at age 87, at Rivercrest Long Term Care in Concord, Massachusetts. He was born August 21, 1928 in Boston. His parents were George L. Wrenn and Mary Trotter Goodman. He grew up in Dedham, MA and graduated from Groton School in Groton, MA. He graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in 1950 and enlisted in the Army Reserves that fall. He returned to Harvard, where he received a law degree in 1954, and a Masters in Architecture in 1960. He worked in the field of historic preservation first for the National Park Service in Philadelphia and in the Boston area, where his work included working on the restoration of the Adams mansion in Quincy, and later for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities in Boston, where he was an Associate Director. Subsequently he and his partner Bill Gordon moved to Costa Rica where they lived for about ten years. Following their return, they lived in Freedom, New Hampshire for 25 years. He opened the Freedom Bookshop in 1988. He loved to travel and visited every continent including Antarctica, inviting family members to join him on several trips. George was predeceased by his brother Robert of Dedham and Needham, MA, and also by his partner of more than four decades, William Gordon, originally from Philadelphia. He is survived by his sister-in-law Patricia Wrenn and by his nieces, Sousa and Edith in MA and Patricia in FL, by his nephews Robert, Jr. and George in CA, and by six grand nieces and grand nephews. Interment will be private at Walnut Hills Cemetery in Brookline.

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