Barbara J. (Seavey) Cormack, 85, of Milton, formerly of Winchester, died June 28.
She graduated from Arlington High School in 1942, receiving the designation “Most Businesslike” at her graduation.
She received a B.A. and M.A. in physics
from Radcliffe College, followed by a year of
graduate study in Cambridge, England, where she completed the Mathematics Tripos in 1949 as
a member of Girton College. During that year she
met her husband, Allan Cormack, whom she married in 1950.
The first years of the marriage were spent in Cape Town, South Africa, where she worked as a lecturer at the University of Cape Town. The couple eventually moved to Winchester.
While raising a family of three, she worked as a volunteer and research assistant at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Harvard University and the Harvard College Observatory. She later worked as mathematical analyst at Intermetrics Inc., and as technical specialist and systems analyst at Dynamics Research Corp.
She is survived by her children, Margaret Cormack, of Charleston, S.C., Jean Cormack, of Mystic, Conn., and Robert Cormack and his wife, Karin Froom, of Milton; three granddaughters, Kiersten (Kiri),
Monika, and Lilja (Lilli), all of Milton; and a brother, Robert Seavey, of Santa Rosa, Calif., and formerly
of Weston.
Services will be private.
Arrangements were by the Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home.