David E. Miller Sr. of Lynnfield, who served nine years as a selectman and later as town moderator in a life that also took in engineering, business and the law, died on Sunday, August 30, 2026 at Sunrise of Lynnfield with his family around him. He was 90.
He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin on June 13, 1936, the son of Edward and Eleanor (Martens) Miller, and grew up in Mexico, Flushing, N.Y., and finally Arlington, where he graduated from Arlington High School. He earned a mechanical engineering degree at Tufts, an MBA at Harvard Business School and, later in life, a law degree at Suffolk University. He married Diana V. Amato on August 26, 1961; they had 65 years together, three children and summers sailing on Newfound Lake.
He worked at Simplex and TASC, helped WSI build systems that delivered weather data by satellite around the world, founded LEMCO Miller, where he worked alongside his children, taught as an adjunct at Suffolk, where he set up an exchange with IESE Business School in Barcelona, and gave legal help free to friends and neighbors. In Lynnfield he served on the Finance Committee, then three terms as selectman, proud of helping establish L.I.F.E. and of the effort to clean and preserve Pillings Pond, and then as town moderator.
He leaves his wife, Diana; his children, Diana Jeanne and her husband Albert Bass, Cynthia and her husband Brett Lombardi, and David Jr. and his wife Ann Miller; and his grandchildren, Ashley and Nathan Bass, Michelle and Jennifer Miller, and Sarah and Andrew Lombardi. His brothers Eddie and Glenn Miller died before him.
Visiting hours are Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the McDonald Funeral Home, 19 Yale Avenue, Wakefield. The funeral Mass is Friday at 9 a.m. at St. Maria Goretti Church, 112 Chestnut Street, Lynnfield, with burial at Forest Hill Cemetery, Lynnfield. The family suggests donations to the American Heart Association.
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