- Date Of Birth: January 25, 1929
- Date Of Death: November 16, 2020
- State: Massachusetts
It has been one year since the passing of Donald Henry Bade of Peabody, MA, on November 16, 2020. He went to his heavenly home due to complications from pneumonia at age 91, with his wife Ursula and daughter Susan by his side. Don is also survived by two other children, Kris Albert of Pittsburg, NH, and Paul Bade of Rochester, NH, and Susan’s partner Ian Wallis, and by a grandson Jeffrey Malley (spouse Ann-Louise), and great-grandsons Jaden and Austin of Florida. Don joins his beloved daughter Karen Louise in eternal life, as she died at age 19 of cancer in 1976.
Don was born in Plymouth, WI, on January 25, 1929, the younger of two sons of Elwood and Viola Bade. While attending Plymouth High School, he worked in the family furniture business and saved money for college. He received his BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin, and was then drafted into the Army, where he served two years, mostly at Fort Knox, KY. During one leave, while he was helping deliver furniture, he took a table to a family in Oshkosh and met Ursula, the radiant young woman that he subsequently married on August 15, 1953. They celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary just three months before Don’s death.
Don’s longest, most recent, and favorite employment was his 19 years as Comptroller at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. He and Ursula delighted in the educational and cultural environment there; they both sang with the Academy’s student choir on several overseas trips.
In awe of God’s creation, Don loved the natural world, and enjoyed it both at home and away, through hiking, skiing, swimming, camping, and traveling, especially after retirement, RVing through all 50 states and more than 200 National Parks and Monuments. His stewardship to nature was reflected in his tireless volunteerism with a variety of community based natural resource advocacy organizations; among them Essex County Greenbelt Association, The Trustees of Reservations, and the Parker River Clean Water Association.
Don was a man of great integrity and generosity of spirit. He will be sorely missed.
