Frank J. Lord

Frank J. Lord ’54, of West Yarmouth, Mass.; Feb. 1. After three years of active duty in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy and 18 years in the Naval Reserve, he retired with the rank of captain. He taught high school world geography in Lexington, attended Boston University to become a guidance counselor, and worked for 38 years as a guidance counselor in both Wellesley and in Duxbury, retiring in 1994. He spent 12 years building houses with Habitat for Humanity and later led his Duxbury church high school youth group to build and repair homes with Rural Missions in South Carolina. During summers he volunteered as a historical tour guide in Duxbury. He joined Mashpee Historical Commission and for decades served as schoolmaster of the One Room Schoolhouse, for which he received a Historical Preservation Award in June 2019. He was appointed to the Mashpee Community Preservation Committee and served as president of the Southport Woodworkers Club and assistant moderator of the Mashpee Men’s Club. He enjoyed historical research and wrote a monthly article about Mashpees’s unique history as a Wampanoag town for the Southport Village Voices. He enjoyed woodworking, swimming, sailing, reading biographies and historical novels, and playing golf. He is survived by his wife, Betsy; a daughter and son-in-law; a son and daughter-in-law; six grandchildren, and two sisters.