JAMES C. COULTER

1931 - 2023

COULTER, James.c Loving Husband, Father, and Grandfather Died peacefully on March 3, 2023, at his home in Duxbury, MA. He was 91 years old. He was the loving husband of Patricia, his beloved wife of 69 years. Father of his four children, James S. and his wife, Lorinda, Douglas and his wife, Maryanne, Jennifer and her husband, John Carroll, and Robert and his wife, Erin. He also leaves five grandchildren, Elizabeth, Hadley, Thomas Carroll, Juliette, and Colson. Brother of Janet and her husband, Bradshaw Langmaid, and William and his wife, Joyce (predeceased). He also leaves behind many nieces and nephews. Jim attended Clinton High School (MA), graduated from Holderness School, Plymouth, NH, and Trinity College, Hartford, CT. After service as an officer in the USAF during the Korean conflict, he attended Babson Institute and later received an MBA degree from New York University. Jim worked for Chemical Bank, NY, in its credit and electronics departments before joining IBM, Boston, MA, as a systems analyst. In 1960, he joined his brother, William (predeceased), to manage the publication of the Clinton Dailey Item, Clinton, MA. During their tenure, they grew the paper by converting its printing process from letterpress to offset, developed a weekly shopper, started a weekly newspaper, the "West Boylston Banner" printed neighboring newspapers and short run flyers. Jim loved athletics, basketball, football, swimming, diving, and tennis. He was on the Holderness basketball team that won New Hampshire's state championship in a playoff at the Boston Garden. His wife, Patricia, a tennis pro, helped Jim become a competitive player. Socially, he and Patricia developed many friendships with tennis and ski partners over the years. His family were members of the Pemigewasset, NH, and Vorlage, VT, ski clubs, and Sippican Tennis, Marion, MA. He loved gardening, landscaping, and nature. He and his cousin operated a lobster business fishing off Manomet Point. He taught swimming and life saving techniques at the Eel River Beach Club in Plymouth, MA. Jim was an avid musician. His swing dixie trumpet gigs took him from the floor of The House of Representative, Washington, D.C. to a casino on Bustin's Island off Freeport, ME. He played with the Sigma Nu Dixieland band, while attending Trinity and later at college reunions and commencement programs. He also played with the Mamma and the Red-Hot Papas, Wellesley, MA, The Legacy Jazz Quintet, W. Boylston, MA, the Sippican Six Jazz Band, Marion, MA, Swing Dix Jazz Band, Worcester, MA, and the Squirrel Hill Jazz Band, Concord, MA. Jim also played with his jazz bands at NE Patriots halftime entertainment, Foxboro, MA. A Memorial Service will be held at The Church of St. John The Evangelist, 410 Washington Street, Duxbury, MA, on April 1, 2023, at 10:30 am. Interment will be private at Bourne National Cemetery, Bourne, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations in Jim's memory may be made to the charity of your choice.

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