William Vaughan Hovey ’52

William Vaughan Hovey ’52, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, died at home on July 26. He graduated from Newton (Massachusetts) High School and received a degree in mathematics from Dartmouth. He was a member of Zeta Psi and played the trumpet in the Barbary Coast. Bill was a member of NROTC and served three years in the U.S. Navy as a gunnery officer. Following the service he entered law school and received a law degree from Boston University Law School in 1958. In 1956 he and Beverly Breed were married. They had children Susan, Cynthia, William, Thomas and Timothy, who survive Bill, along with 18 grandchildren. Bill practiced law in the Boston area his entire career, first with a large law firm, then with his own firm, specializing in real estate law. His professional associations included the Boston Bar Association, the Abstract Club and the Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts, serving as president, legislation committee chairman, title standards committee chairman and executive committee member and receiving the Richard B. Johnson Award for distinguished service in 1993. Bill was author of the monthly “Avuncular Advisor” articles in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and was the author of The Best of the Avuncular Advisor. Bill and his family resided for many years in Duxbury, where he was a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club and Duxbury Pilgrim Church.