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Share Your Thoughts: Brookline's Stanley Sydney Dies

Community benefactor and Brookline resident, Stanley Sydney, died Jan. 22.

Stanley Sydney, 80, a Brookline resident and active member of the community, died on Jan. 22. Yesterday would have been his 81st birthday.

1443 Beacon Street, a building managed by ,  displaced by the on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

In addition, The Sydneys were big supporters of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research. He was also an early benefactor of the Maimonides school's atheltics program, and a sponsor of Congregation Young Israel.

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Services were held last Monday (Jan. 23) at , and he was interred in Rhode Island. The family has asked that instead of flowers, donations be sent to:

A guest book appeared on Legacy.com with comments from friends and family. 

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