JOSEPH-CORSON-Obituary

DR. JOSEPH MACKIE CORSON

Lexington, Massachusetts

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CORSON, Dr. Joseph Mackie Of Lexington, died peacefully on Friday, July 12, 2019, after a long and well-lived life. He was 95. Mackie grew up on a farm outside of Philadelphia, collecting eggs and feeding cows before school, and selling tomatoes at Reading Terminal Market on weekends. He entered...

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Dear Charlie

Please accept my deepest sympathy at the passing of Dr. Joe. Although I only met him once at your home where I stayed for a week as you convinced him that we were landscapers in disguise. He would come home and just look at us and not say a word. Well we finished the lawn and we were off to San Francisco. I enjoyed the company of Dr. Joe and your mother. He was a very kind man and what we call one of " The good guys who truly cared about his fellow man "

Sending my condoles to the Corson family in this difficult time.
I work with Charles and had never met Joe, I did have the pleasure of driving with Charles a couple of times when Joe was on speakerphone.
The routine discussions about a meal or health care worker offered me a window on the relationship between a loving son and a dad approaching sunset.
Caring for an aging parent calls upon all virtues, I felt the wit, courage, temperance, and honor between father and son play out...

May God's promise found in John 6:40, of the hope to see our loved ones again, comfort your heart and give you peace, strength, and hope in the days ahead.