Kevin J. Crosby died Aug. 21, 2008, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 58.
Mr. Crosby was born in Chelsea on June 13, 1950, and was a resident of Somerville for 26 years. He was educated in the Revere schools and was employed as a utility oiler for Raytheon Corporation.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a past commander and member of American Legion Post 19 in Somerville and the Irish American Club of Malden.
He was the husband of Sherrill (Swift) Crosby; son of the late Joseph Crosby Sr. and his wife, Kathleen (Buckley); brother of Robert Crosby of Concord, N.H.; and son-in-law of Robert Swift and his late wife, Elizabeth, of Somerville. He is also survived by many brothers- and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
A funeral Mass was held Aug. 26 at St. Catherine of Genoa Church in Somerville, with burial at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody. Arrangements were made by the Cota-Struzziero-McKenna Funeral Home in Somerville.
Donations in Mr. Crosby’s memory may be made to the Joslin Diabetes Center, 1 Joslin Place, Boston, MA 02215.
