Ted Charrette
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 8 at 11 a.m. at the Stone Church (14 Bedford Rd.) for Edmond E. (Ted) Charrette, who died on May 3 of brain cancer. He was 57. The family will hold visiting hours on Sunday, May 7 from 2–6 p.m. at the Douglass Funeral Home, 51 Worthen Rd., Lexington.
“Ted loved Lincoln, which he saw through the eyes of his children, and as someone who relished running its trails, cycling its roads, skating the ponds and river, canoeing on Farrar Pond, visiting Codman Farm, and participating in town and youth sports activities,” said his friend Deborah Howe.
“Wrapping up his tenure as treasurer of Lincoln Youth Soccer, last year he arranged the collection of used youth soccer uniforms (thanks again, Donelan’s, for hosting the dropoff boxes) which he then sized, sorted, and distributed to children’s soccer teams in Africa and Central America. He enjoyed Lincoln’s small-town neighborliness, and appreciated the back-fence flavor of this list, the chance encounters with friends and colleagues in Donelan’s, on the trails, and of course, at the transfer station, where he could compare notes on chicken-raising, bee-keeping, wood-splitting, or lawn tractor transmission-rebuilding with fellow Lincolnites.”
After finishing his first career in technology business development, he became a math and science teacher, and tutored a number of local students in math. He loved to teach, and in addition to being an avid cyclist, a marathoner, hiker, and skier, he combined two loves by teaching skiing at Wachusett Mountain on winter weekends until 2016.
Ted leaves two sons, Freddy and his wife (Marta) of Princeton and Jackson of Durango, Colo.; a daughter, Cecelia Charrette of Cambridge; and two grandsons, Roberto Rafael Charrette and Edmond Alexander Charrette. He was the beloved son of Edmond E. and Maria T. (Spaziano) Charrette of Lexington, and brother of Susan Charrette of River Forest, Ill.; Thomas and his wife Jennifer of Yarmouth, Maine; Steven and his wife Julie of Wenham; and Paul and his wife Monika of Menlo Park, Calif.; and uncle to eight nieces and nephews. Donations in his memory may be made to the National Brain Tumor Society, 55 Chapel St. Suite 200, Newton, Mass.
