EDWARD LAHEY

LAHEY--Edward V., Jr., of Vero Beach, FL, Southport, CT, and Nantucket, MA, died peacefully at home on March 23, 2025. He had happily celebrated his 86th birthday with family just the week before. Ed was born on March 11, 1939 in Boston, MA to Edward and Margery (Mehegan) Lahey. He graduated from Iona Grammar School and Iona Prep '56, both in New Rochelle, NY, and the College of the Holy Cross '60, in Worcester, MA. He served two formative years as a young officer on a mine sweeper in the U.S. Navy prior to earning his JD at Georgetown University Law Center '64. He embarked on his legal career at Hester, Owen & Crowder, Washington, DC in 1964, and subsequently joined the legal department at Pepsico, Inc., in 1965, where he would spend the rest of his career, becoming vice-president and general counsel in 1973. His career took him all over the world. After retiring from Pepsico, he stayed active in the legal world through the American Arbitration Association, both as an arbitrator and on their board. In 1964 Ed married Joan McCafferty and a few years later they settled in Larchmont, NY. In 1977 they moved to Southport, CT with their three children. Ed was a member of Pequot Yacht Club, The Country Club of Fairfield, Nantucket Yacht Club, Vero Beach Yacht Club, Oak Harbor Club, and a former member of the John's Island Club. He loved sailing, rowing, fishing, working on old boats, music, and was an avid reader. He was tireless in his work on the boards of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra in Vero Beach, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, and St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester. He was devoted to and is survived by Joan; their children, Sheila (Marty), Ted (Colleen), and Matt; their grandchildren, M.J., Billy, Danny, Nathaniel, and Molly Duffy, Ford, Holt, and Pierce Lahey, and Kate and Anna Lahey; and his brother Dan Lahey of Key West, FL.