Kevin J. Crosby

   Kevin J. Crosby died Aug. 21, 2008, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 58.

Mr. Crosby was born in Chelsea on June 13, 1950, and was a resident of Somerville for 26 years. He was educated in the Revere schools and was employed as a utility oiler for Raytheon Corporation.

He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a past commander and member of American Legion Post 19 in Somerville and the Irish American Club of Malden.

He was the husband of Sherrill (Swift) Crosby; son of the late Joseph Crosby Sr. and his wife, Kathleen (Buckley); brother of Robert Crosby of Concord, N.H.; and son-in-law of Robert Swift and his late wife, Elizabeth, of Somerville. He is also survived by many brothers- and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

A funeral Mass was held Aug. 26 at St. Catherine of Genoa Church in Somerville, with burial at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park in Peabody. Arrangements were made by the Cota-Struzziero-McKenna Funeral Home in Somerville.