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John Myers Reed

Brookline, Massachusetts

Jan 28, 1930 – Feb 4, 2012 (Age 82)

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BORN
January 28, 1930
DIED
February 4, 2012
AGE
82
LOCATION
Brookline, Massachusetts

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REED, John Myers Died Saturday, February 4, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born to the late Paul R. and Elizabeth B. Reed on January 28, 1930. John was graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in 1947, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, and from the Harvard Law...

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My sincere condolences for your loss. John was a kind, gentle & pleasant man and I enjoyed working with him. May he rest in peace.

John was my cleint and I have many fond memories of my time with him. listening to his stories of his love for poetry and word. I will miss him.

Dennis McGovern
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John was one of the most interesting people I worked with in my 15 years at Sherin and Lodgen. I loved to go to his office with bills as he would end up telling me great stories of England.

What I most loved about John was his openness and humility. He learned so much in his life - a staggering amount by my measure, and never lost his appetite for learning more. And despite all he knew, and all I did not, he did not lose his humility. John took wisdom where he found it, not just from great poetry and the Classics and ancient political and legal scholarship, but from the writing on the bottom of a family member's ashtray, glimpsed by John when he was young: "Better alone than...