Donald E. Warren
Donald E. Warren, 63, of
Paradise Road,
Ipswich, died
Friday
July 31, 2009 in
the
Ledgewood Rehabilitation Center, Beverly, following an extended illness
with cancer.
Born in
Ipswich
January 20, 1946,
son of the late John and Vera (Klimaseski) Warren, he was raised on
Fifth Street
and was a 1963 graduate of
Ipswich
High School.
Following graduation he entered the US Air Force. For the next four
years he was stationed at the March AFB in
Riverside, CA, where he was trained as a computer technician.
Following his honorable discharge he resided in
Indiana
while servicing the computers of the Wall Street Journal for a couple
of years. He returned to
Ipswich
in 1969, making his home on Paradise Road.
For several years he was employed as a store manager at several North
Shore Howard Johnsons. He later worked at Hood Foam in
Marblehead, at Stocker and Yale in
Beverly,
and at
USM
in
Beverly. Since 1991 he was employed in sales at COSTCO in Danvers.
Donald was lovingly known by some as “Tweet” and others as “Oscar the
Grouch.”
He was a communicant of
Sacred
Heart Church and Our Lady of Hope Parish in Ipswich and was a member of
the Ipswich Lions Club where he had served as President, the AMVETS Post
#201 in Ipswich and the Fabian Weltcheck PLAV Post #92 in
Ipswich
where he served as an Adjutant.
He is survived by two sisters Sandie Nunes and her husband Benjamin of
Essex and Joni Allen and her husband Mickey of Ipswich; two nephews,
Matthew Allen and his wife Deborah of Georgetown and Scott Nunes and his
wife Courtney of Beverly; two nieces, Kimberly Nunes of Ipswich
and Melissa Lomas and her husband Jeff of Raeford, NC and great nieces
Aidan Nunes and Grace, Audrey and Phoebe Allen.
His funeral service will be held Tuesday August 4 at 10:30
am
in the Whittier-Porter Funeral Home,
6 High Street,
Ipswich, followed by interment with Air Force Honors in the Cowles
Memorial Cemetery, Ipswich. Family and friends are respectfully
welcomed. Visiting hours are Monday
5
to
8 pm.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions in his name may be made to
Hospice of the North Shore, 75 Sylvan St., Suite B-102, Danvers, MA
01923.
