Thu, 06/03/2021 - 9:34am sarahp MARTIN LAPIDUS
LEICESTER Marty Lapidus passed away peacefully at his home in Leicester, Vt., on May 27, 2021, at the age of 80.
Marty grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his older brother Sid and his parents, Joseph and Hannah. They moved to New Rochelle, N.Y., when Marty started at Albert Leonard Middle School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1962 and not long after that, was a founding member of the Averill Corporation in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont with a group of ne’er-do-well friends. He raised his children, Heather and Ricky, with his beloved wife Merry in Scarsdale, N.Y., before moving to Vermont full-time in 2000.
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