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Former Westford Superintendent Dies at 94
Lloyd Blanchard, namesake of the Blanchard School, led Westford's schools for more than two decades and continued to hold a presence in town long afterward.

Westford is mounding the loss of former Superintendent Lloyd Blanchard, namesake of the .
Blanchard died at the age of 94.
He served as superintendent from 1957-1982. Long thereafter, he continued to walk back to his old offices from his home on Boston Road according to Superintendent Bill Olsen, armed with historical information and old stories about schools in Westford for anyone wanting to learn more.
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His love for Westford history was also shown in his continual volunteering prescence for the Westford Historical Society and the .
According to a report from the Lowell Sun, Blanchard grew up in North Conway, N.H., and eventually entered the Army as a meteorologist and studied at Dartmouth College in the field of Mathematics.
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