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Harold Francis Hines
Loving Husband, Father and Grandfather, Trusted Business Advisor and Gentleman’s Gentleman;
Harold Francis Hines, 98, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts but formerly of Lowell, MA and Nashua, NH, died peacefully on Tuesday October 5, 2021, surrounded by his loving family.
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 21, 1923, the son of the late James E. Hines and the late Mary J. (Whelan) Hines, he lived in Lowell most of his life before moving to Nashua in 1995.
He was the beloved husband of Doris M. (Paradis) Hines with whom he had celebrated 64 years of marriage until her recent passing on December 21, 2020. Harold was at his happiest spending time with his family, playing a round of golf with his long-time friends, capturing family memories in his 100 plus photo albums or simply enjoying an evening cocktail.
He graduated from Keith Academy in 1941, and while at Keith, played varsity basketball and tennis. Following graduation, he attended Wentworth Institute and became a tool maker and went to work for Remington Arms. After a serious motor vehicle accident in 1943 that disqualified him from military service, he was employed by the Boston & Maine Railroad in the Auditor of Freight Receipts Office. While working for the railroad he attended and graduated from Bentley University.
Upon graduating from Bentley in 1948, he embarked on a forty year career in public accounting. He was employed by regional and international public accounting firms and was one of the founding partners and Managing Partner of Sullivan Bille & Company, Certified Public Accountants. He retired from Sullivan Bille in 1988 and became C.F.O and a member of the Board of Northeast Offset, a commercial printer, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He retired in 2002.
During his public accounting career, he served on the Small Business Management Advisory Committee of the America Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was a contributor to several of their accounting publications, including Assisting Small Business Clients in Obtaining Funds, Identifying Client Problems: A Diagnostic Review Technique, and Assisting Clients in Maximizing Profits.
Harold was a life member of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Societies of Certified Public Accountants. He was a former State Chairman of the Practice Review Committee for the Massachusetts Society of C.P.A.’s and the former Chairman of the Greater Lowell United Fund.
He often said, “you have to give back to the community” and served on many organizations including: the University of Massachusetts – Lowell Business Advisory Committee , the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce as a Vice President and member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, the Greater Lowell Boy Scouts as Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, the Kiwanis Club of Lowell as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors, the Lowell Boys Club as Trustee and member of the Finance Advisory Committee, the Central Saving Bank of Lowell as member of the Board of Trustees and an Incorporator, Community Teamwork, Inc. as Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors and Vesper Country Club as Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee.
A former member of the Yorick Club of Lowell, Vesper Country Club of Tyngsboro, and Abenaqui Country Club of Rye Beach, NH, he was also a Life member of the Lowell chapters of the Lodge of Elks and Knights of Columbus.
Harold attended and was an active member of Saint Joseph the Worker Church in Nashua and a longtime parishioner of St. Margaret’s Church in Lowell.
He is survived by four children: a daughter, Louise Hines-Ike and her husband, Richard J. Ike, Jr. of Littleton, Colorado, a son, James Hines of Chicago, Illinois, a daughter, Constance McCarthy and her husband, Timothy McCarthy of Leawood, Kansas, and a son, Daniel Hines and his wife, Elizabeth Hines of Lowell, Massachusetts; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren: Ian Hines-Ike, Brendan Hines-Ike and fiancée Monique Todora, Kira Hines-Ike, Ryan McCarthy and wife, Sara McCarthy, Devin McCarthy and wife, Katelyn McCarthy, Molly Bressler and husband, Kai Bressler, Shawn Hines, Samuel Hines, Daniel Hines, Pierce McCarthy, Deacon McCarthy, Hadley McCarthy and Mia Hines-Ike. He also leaves behind several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Harold was predeceased by his brother, David K. Hines, in 2003.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend his Funeral Mass to be celebrated on Wednesday morning October 13, 2021, at the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH in LOWELL at 10:30 A.M. followed by his burial in St. Mary Cemetery. E-condolences/directions at www.odonnellfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to www.catholiccharitiesusa.org. Arrangements by the O’DONNELLFUNERAL HOME – LOWELL – MA – (978) 458-8768.
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