Victor M. Kumin

1921 - 2016

Kumin, Victor M Victor Montwid Kumin died peacefully at home in Warner, NH, December 23, 2016, at 95. He was the husband of poet Maxine Kumin, who died in in 2014, the 68th year of their marriage. Born August 2, 1921 in Worcester, MA to Samuel Kumin and Clara Montwid; his mother was from Milwaukee. Victor graduated from Harvard in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army, as a member of the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb, from 1944-46. Marrying in June, 1946 the couple raised three children in Newton Highlands, MA. Victor worked for Charles T. Main Associates engineering in Boston, and in 1970 earned a Masters in Urban Planning from Northeastern University, and in 1972-3 a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Victor and Maxine moved permanently to Warner, NH in 1976. Survived by children Jane, of San Francisco, CA, Judith, of Contoocook, NH, and Daniel, with wife Elizabeth Hodges, of Concord, NH; two grandchildren, Yann, of Medford, MA and Noah, of Brooklyn, NY. Arrangements are entrusted to the Bennett Funeral Home of Concord. Messages of condolence may be offered at www.bennettfuneral.com