Gordon Edwin Flint, age 91, the Cohasset Town Treasurer and Tax Collector for thirty three years, passed away on December 25, 2014 in the presence of his loving family at the Pat Roche Hospice Home in Hingham after a brief illness. A Mayflower descendent, Mr. Flint was born in Cohasset on Sept. 29, 1923, to Emma (Keegan) and George Willard Flint. A true son of Cohasset, he spent his summers at Sandy Beach and his winters skating on Lily Pond. Except for his wartime service, Gordon resided in Cohasset his entire life. He was the President of the Class of 1942 at Cohasset High School where he lettered in football, hockey, and baseball. In his senior year, the football team played a memorable game on Nantucket and enjoyed staying with the players in their homes. At his high school graduation, he was the first recipient of a new award, the Youth Fund Scholarship, a $100 Defense Bond, given in recognition of scholarship, character, and community activity.  He continued his love of hockey by playing for many years in the South Shore and Old Colony Hockey Leagues at the former Weymouth Skating Club.  As a youth, he played at the Hingham Skating Club on the Eagles, a team of Cohasset and Scituate boys coached by Reverend Creelman, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church in No. Scituate.

Mr. Flint attended Northeastern University, but World War II intervened. He enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1943 and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, Second Regiment of the Second Marine Division, which had previously made history at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. He was sent to the South Pacific and on June 16, 1944, he landed on the Island of Saipan, and was immediately wounded in action by the Japanese. He recuperated for a year in Naval hospitals in Hawaii and California and received the Purple Heart and the Combat Action Ribbon for his service. He was in San Diego, preparing for the invasion of Japan in a newly formed Marine Corps division when the war ended. After the war, Mr. Flint returned to Cohasset and attended the Bryant and Stratton School, earning an accounting degree. In 1947, he was elected to the Cohasset School Committee at the age of 23, the youngest person elected to that position in the history of the town. He was a member of the building committee that oversaw the construction of the new Cohasset High School.

Mr. Flint was employed at Remick's Department Store in Quincy as an accountant, but in 1951 he was appointed Tax Collector for the Town of Cohasset.  It was to become his lifelong position, one that eventually merged with the office of the Town Treasurer. Mr. Flint was never opposed for re-election to office. During his tenure, he was well known to the people of the Cohasset for his kindness, winning smile, and devotion to his home town.  Mr. Flint also served as Director of Veteran Affairs for the town for many years, and he maintained a part-time tax and bookkeeping practice well into his eighties.

A lifelong golfer, Mr. Flint first learned the game at Hatherly Country Club in North Scituate where he caddied as a young boy, riding his bike to the club from Cohasset. He later was a member for many years.  He was shooting his age a number of times well into his seventies.  Mr. Flint was a trustee of the Cohasset Savings Bank and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He volunteered for FISH of Cohasset and was the Treasurer and Auditor of the Cohasset Historical Society and Second Congregational Church of Cohasset for many years. He was a proud member of the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans Assoc., and he also served as the first president of the Cohasset Sportsman Association.

Mr. Flint leaves his beloved wife of 68 years, Louise A. (Lund) Flint, whom he married on June 9, 1946 in Hingham, MA; three children, Gordon A. Flint and his wife Patricia of Wilton, ME, Cheryl A. Libby and her husband Kevin of Falmouth, ME., and Mark D. Flint and his wife Jeanne of Hull. He also leaves five grandchildren, Andrew G. Flint of Larkspur, CA., Peter L. Flint of Crested Butte, CO., Sarah S. Hammer of Buena Vista, CO., Bridget K. Libby of Falmouth, ME., and Caroline L. Libby of Portland, OR., and four great grandchildren.

A Funeral Service will be held on January 3 at 1:00 PM in the Second Congregational Church, 43 Highland Ave., Cohasset Common. Visiting hours will be held on January 2 from 4:00 to 8:00 in McNamara-Sparrell Funeral Home, 1 Summer St. (Across from St. Anthony Church), Cohasset. Interment Woodside Cemetery, Cohasset. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: the Hospice of the South Shore, 30 Reservoir Park Dr., Rockland, MA. 02370, or the Norwell VNA & Hospice  for the benefit of the Pat Roche Hospice Home Home, 120 Longwater Drive, Norwell, MA. 02061 or to the Wounded Warrior Project.  P. O. Box 758541, Topeka, Kansas  66675.

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