Herbert Bingham Mead

HERBERT BINGHAM MEAD, 86, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at the Sky View Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. A direct descendant of the founders of the Town of Greenwich, Mr. Mead was born in 1924 and raised in Greenwich, attending local schools. He was the son of the late Stanley Bingham Mead and Gertrude Wester Mead. Mr. Mead lived in back country Greenwich for most of his life until moving to Wilton, and then Croton-on-Hudson in December 2008. He was a World War II veteran serving as a radioman in the U.S. Marines 1st and 4th Marine Divisions from 1943 to 1947, at Guadalcanal, Peleiu, the front lines in the Battle of Okinawa, and stationed for several years in Tianjin and Beijing, China after the Japanese surrender. For many years, he was employed in the Clairol research division of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut. After his retirement, he started and operated a garden design and landscape business until six years ago. Mr. Mead was an active and passionate volunteer for more than 40 years in Greenwich's fire department services including serving as chief of the Round Hill Volunteer Fire Department and the Amogerone Volunteer Fire Company, contributing his time and energies. He was also a proud supporter of various U.S. Marine Corps organizations. Surviving are his children, Gail Mead Fletcher of Greenwich; Deborah Mead Danielsen of Fairfield; Jeffrey Bingham Mead of Honolulu, Hawaii; Tracy Ann Mead of Paris, France; and six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Family and friends will be received on Friday, March 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Knapp & Son Funeral Home, 267 Greenwich Ave., Greenwich. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 20 at Christ Church Greenwich, 254 East Putnam Avenue, followed by burial in the First Congregational Church Cemetery, Old Greenwich. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent in memory of Herbert Bingham Mead to Sky View Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, 1280 Albany Post Road, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520.