Obituary of Clarence S. Lovelace

LOVELACE--C.S. "Butsy" Lovelace, 94, died peacefully Saturday, June 11, 2016. Born in Baltimore, MD on July 4, 1921, son of Olivia Brengle Shriver and Dr. Benjamin F. Lovelace, Chemistry Professor at Johns Hopkins University, he attended Calvert School, Gilman School and Princeton University (Class of '44). He was married to Mary Jean Campbell of Baltimore. C. S. Lovelace, a retired magazine executive, saw WW II on a destroyer escort in the Pacific. Upon discharge, taught at Gilman School and then a twenty year career with Time, Inc. ending as Fortune magazine marketing director. Later he was vice president at American Heritage, consulted for Hearst, was publisher of Nautical Quarterly, Nantucket Magazine and an entrepreneur in education. Butsy summered on Nantucket, loved sailing and ocean racing, maritime history and Nantucket land conservation. Lovelace was Trustee Emeritus of Mystic Seaport Museum, Commodore of Nantucket Yacht Club (1968-69), member of New York Yacht Club, Storm Trysail Club and Cruising Club of America. Retired to Essex CT, Lovelace wrote Tale of the Governor and Two Islands and From Out of Nowhere about a possible ancestor, Francis Lovelace, a cavalier and second governor of New York in 1668. Memoirs of a Lost Island: Remembrances of a Lifetime of Nantucket Summers followed his first book A Nantucket Enclave: Monomoy Heights 1852- 2005 from Sheep Commons to Cottage Colony to Gold Coast. Survived by sons, Jeffrey C. Lovelace and wife Judy, Essex, CT, Donald S. Lovelace, Old Greenwich, CT, David S. Lovelace and wife Dayna, Norwalk, CT, daughter Olivia S. Lovelace and Kenneth Kubie, Norwalk, CT. He is survived by grandchildren Jeffrey Jr. and Leah O. Lovelace, Amy C and Benjamin L Kubie, Katherine O. Lovelace and great grandson Jeffrey Benjamin Lovelace. He was predeceased by his wife, Mary Jean Campbell, brother, Richard S. Lovelace and sister, Caroline (Jinx) Rutter Brown. A Memorial Service is July 4, 2016 at Essex Meadows, Essex, CT; interment on Nantucket this fall. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in his memory to Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue, PO Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355-0990 or Nantucket Conservation Foundation, PO Box 13, Nantucket, MA 02554. Arrangements by Robinson, Wright & Weymer Funeral Home, Centerbrook, CT.