- Date Of Birth: December 13, 1944
- Date Of Death: September 5, 2016
- State: Massachusetts
BRADFORD – Bradley Clayton Sawyer, 71, passed away on September 5, 2016, of renal cancer in Sandwich, MA.
Brad was born in Haverhill, the son of Roger and Evelyn Sawyer. He was the beloved husband of Diana (Abraham) Sawyer for 48 years.
Brad’s survival for the last 41 years amazed the medical experts after his 1975 diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis, a debilitating connective tissue disease.
His unfailing good humor and courage despite great pain amazed his many friends over the decades. He looked forward to every day with joy and anticipation. Every morning he and friends would solve the problems of the world over coffee at Barnstable Harbor where he also kept his Seacraft for many years. He had a great sense of humor and loved to tell stories and make people laugh. He was an avid deer hunter, first by bow and arrow and then musket, until a few years before his death.
He graduated from Haverhill High School and enlisted in the U.S. Army where he was a radar specialist at a Nike missile site in Bristol, RI, (now Roger Williams College) at the height of the Cold War.
