George N. Beauregard ’48

George died June 4, 2024, in Holyoke, Mass., six weeks after his 99th birthday.

In 1942, George left South Hadley (Mass.) High School at age 17 to enlist in the Marines, who sent him to serve in the Pacific and then to study engineering at Princeton. Discharged as a staff sergeant, he went on to earn a B.S. at the University of Massachusetts and a J.D. from Boston University.

After two years with the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co. in Rochester, N.Y., George returned to Massachusetts to practice law with Samuel Resnic. Fifty-two years later, he retired as the senior partner of Resnic, Beauregard, Waite, and Driscoll — leaving son Mark and others to carry on. In 1958, he was appointed special justice of the Holyoke District Court, becoming the youngest judge in the state at 33. In addition to sitting district courts in Western Massachusetts, Worcester, Framingham, Marlborough, and Nantucket, he served as a Master in Hampden Superior and probate courts.

George served as president of the Holyoke Boys Club, the Beavers Club, the local chapter of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and as campaign chairman of the Holyoke Red Cross and United Way. He was a board member of Hampshire National Bank and Peoples Savings Bank.

George was married for 70 years to his “across-the-street neighbor in high school” (as he put it in the 25th-reunion yearbook), Doris Robitaille, who died in 2019. He is survived by their children, Beth Weaver, Mark, and Nancy Nastasi; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and one brother.