David-Jeffery-Obituary

David Jeffery

St. Michaels, Maryland

1937 - 2020

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DIED
March 17, 2020
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St. Michaels, Maryland

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He loved family, books, and boats. He was quiet and kind, self-effacing but with a dry wit that cracked up his family and caregivers until the end. "I know one thing," he said upon being told that he had a few weeks to live, "I don't want to die in the Days Inn." And so we brought him home from...

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For the past ten years, David was a Board Member of the Yale Record Corporation, an alumni group of writers, artists, and magazine devotees. In that role he was able to advise and support young writers and staffers of the campus humor magazine, where he himself as a Yale undergraduate in the late 1950s where his first published writing augured his bright and productive career. Yes, his wry smile and quiet humor endurs.
D. Watson

Dave lives in any of us lucky enough to have worked for him and with him. I feel his praise when I write a decent sentence, and I share his wisdom when I edit others. Just the other day I quoted him to a writer, saying, "My former boss would call this a 'fact bomb.'" That Davism still makes me laugh. I mourn his loss and grieve for the family, but more important, I celebrate his life and cherish his memory.