Barry L. Field

SUGAR HILL, N.H. - Barry L. Field, 49, of Sugar Hill, a Lowell native and former Chelmsford, Mass., resident who was a jazz trumpeter and an active youth sports coach in the White Mountains region, died Saturday, May 17, at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was the husband of Sally Evans Field.

He was born in Lowell, son of Sally (Palmer) Field of Chelmsford and Lloyd S. Field, who died in 1973. He grew up in Chelmsford and Meredith. He attended Tilton Academy and Farleigh Dickinson University, where he earned a degree in business.

Mr. Field worked at the Carol Reed in Campton, and later with U.S. Ski and Sport in Lincoln, N.H. In 1981, he started the Littleton Bicycle and Sport Shoppe in Littleton, N.H.

Mr. Field was a coach, official and board member of Littleton Youth Hockey, as well as the coach of the Franconia Flyers hockey team. He also coached youth baseball and was the golf coach at Profile High School.

Music was a great joy of Mr. Field, and he played the trumpet with the Berlin Jazz Band and the North Country Community Band.

He founded the Granite State cycling club, White Mountain Velo. Mr. Field was a member of the Airheads Beemer Club and the international organization of BMW motorcycles. For many years, he coordinated an adult hockey night at the arena in Lyndonville, Vt.

Besides his wife and mother, survivors include two sons, Tucker and Michael of Sugar Hill; his brothers, Mark Field of Cenetenial, Colo., Howard Field of West Hartford, Conn., and David Field of Dracut, Mass.