Below is an obituary from Douglass Funeral Home:
LEXINGTON, MA — Henry Edminster Stevenson, also known as Henry E. Stevenson III, a longtime member of the Lexington Minute Men, a committed audiophile and a train buff, died on February 25, 2025 at Lahey Hospital from cardiac arrest. The underlying cause was stress cardiomyopathy following complications of intestinal surgery. Henry was 71 years old and was retired from the Town of Weston, where he worked as a systems administrator.
Born in 1953, Henry grew up in Washington, D.C. Both his parents were veterans of the United States Marine Corps. His father, the late Lieut. Col. Henry Edwin Stevenson, was a reserve officer in the Corps and worked as an education specialist for the United States Navy. His mother, the late Judge Almira Abbot Stevenson, was an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board.
Henry attended Lafayette Elementary School in Washington, D.C.; McClean School in Potomac, Maryland; Woodrow Wilson High School in D.C.; and Sanford School in Hockessin, Delaware. He played basketball and football in high school. At Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, Henry majored in Communications and Broadcast Journalism and was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity (“TEP”). After graduation, Henry worked as a producer for radio and television stations in West Virginia and Boston. He then turned to Human Resources and worked as an HR Manager at Xyvision in Wakefield, MA, Drytec in Wilmington, MA, and Advanced NMR Systems, also in Wilmington, MA.
As computers became ubiquitous in the 1990s, Henry built on his knowledge of radio, audio, and television technology to begin a new career in information technology. He worked in IT at Metro South/West Employment and Training center in Norwood, MA, Crabtree & Eyelyn in Woodstock, CT, Career Source/ERI in Cambridge, MA, and the Town of Arlington, MA. At his final job for the Town of Weston, MA, Henry enjoyed supporting all the different Town departments, from police and fire to the recreation department. He was a beloved Weston employee, and made many close friends there.
More than anything in his life, Henry loved his two children, Juliet Stevenson of Durham, North Carolina, and Henry Stevenson IV, a senior at Purdue University in Indiana. As he approached retirement, he bought a red convertible Mustang and allowed his children to drive it to proms, special events, and around town on sunny days. He doted on his Sheltie Cody and loved tossing the ball and playing hide and seek with him. A mere two weeks before his death, Henry was fit and active, shoveling snow and planning future rail adventures and trips to battlefields in the U.S. and Europe.
Henry was always “Uncle Dad” to his nieces, Marshall and Mira Cooper, both of Columbus, Ohio, and adored visiting them with their mother, his sister Abbot Stevenson and her husband Mike Cooper of Athens, Ohio. He was also close to his many cousins and loved seeing them in Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, where his talented cousins would play old Appalachian and family songs on guitars and banjos.
Henry will be remembered for the gentle Southern manners he inherited from his West Virginia mother and passed on to his children, his kindness and thoughtfulness to all, and his joy and fun in the smallest moments of life. He would strike up conversations with anyone, from strangers to the wonderful staff at Lahey Hospital. Even at the lowest points of his illness, he rallied to joke with his caregivers and chat them up about everything from Patriots Day celebrations in Lexington to religion and the Crusades.
In addition to his children, sister, nieces, and cousins, Henry is survived by his wife of 31 years, Catherine Sullivan.
Henry was passionate about preserving battlefields. Donations in his honor may be made to the American Battlefield Trust.
Burial services will be private. A memorial service is being planned for late spring.
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