John Sidney, born April 16, 1922 in Vienna, Austria to Josephine Singer Severin and Emil Siebert, died peacefully at Oak Knoll Healthcare Center, Framingham, on July 15, 2013 after a short illness.
He was married for 56 years to the late Anne Elizabeth Gardner Sidney. He leaves his three children, Richard Sidney and his wife Sandra, Joanna Peatfield and her husband John, and Louisa Caswell widow of the late Glenn Caswell, three grandchildren, Rachel Remington and her husband William, Heidi Caswell, and Sarah Sidney, and one great grand son, Tyler Jovan Remington.
John grew up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and came to the US as a refugee in 1942. He graduated from City College of New York, and the Harvard Business School. He enlisted in the US Army as an interpreter, and during his service, was naturalized as a US citizen and, while deployed in Europe, was captured and held as a POW in Germany. When asked by his daughter what he did for work, he said he was an “innovator”. He worked to develop computer systems for small businesses before there were Personal Computers. His family was the most important part of his life. John lived in Wellesley, Framingham, Natick and West Falmouth during his long life. He loved the ocean and the beach.
Services will be private.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in John’s memory to the West Falmouth Library online at www.westfalmouthlibrary.org or at 575 West Falmouth Highway, Box 1209, West Falmouth, MA 02574 or the Joslin Diabetes Foundation online at https://events.joslin.org/givenow/sponsor/giftinfo.asp or at 1 Joslin Place, Suite 745, Boston, MA 02215.