Stephen J. Carey ’71 died on November 13, 2025, in Beverly, Massachusetts.

(The following was provided by Legacy.com in November 24, 2025:)

Stephen J. Carey ’71

Graduate of Boston Latin School class of 1967, Steve went on to attend Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. A fraternity brother in Beta Theta Pi, varsity basketball captain, and classics major, Steve made lifelong friends in the class of 1971. In 1982 he received his masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Steve was a lifelong educator devoted to teaching and coaching. He began his career teaching Latin and history at Tabor Academy where he coached basketball, lacrosse and football alongside his lifelong friend and colleague Mr. Duffy.

In 1988, Steve and his family moved to Beverly, MA. He stepped away from teaching for two years to serve his high school alma mater, helping to establish the Boston Latin School Foundation.

Steve joined the Pingree School community in 1990 as director of admissions, and spent the next twenty-five years in Hamilton, MA, as a history teacher, lacrosse and basketball coach, advisor, and ultimately co-director of college counseling. In recognition of his contribution to Pingree athletics, Steve was inducted into Pingree’s Athletics Honor Society in 2019. Blessed with uncanny intuition, Steve carried a gift for discovering the good in others and placed students squarely at the center of his life’s work.

Steve was never more at home than when he was at his family’s summer house in West Harwich on Cape Cod. A lifelong fisherman, Steve and Lee spent their summers on the Cape, chasing bluefish from Harwich to Monomoy Island. Forever the storyteller, Steve’s lore remains in our hearts forever.

In addition to his parents, he is predeceased by sister, Sara (Sally) Louise Carey. Stephen is survived by his wife, Lilia (Lee) Carey of Beverly MA, his children Meghan Grabau and her husband, Alexander, of Framingham MA; Patrick Carey and his wife, Elise Pelletier, of Portland ME; Lily Carey and her husband, Robert Brasso, of Baltimore MD; sister, Susan Carey and her husband, Steven O’Brien, of Holyoke MA; brother, Frederick Carey and his wife, Stephanie Forrest, of Scottsdale AZ; and his grandchildren, Cyr and Julian Carey, and Elle and August Brasso.