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George F. Pierce, a Needham native who served on the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for 33 years, died of liver cancer last Wednesday at his home in Natick. He was 62.
Pierce became sick approximately a year and a half ago but he only officially retired from HUPD two days before he died.
Colleagues remember Pierce as a down-to-earth man who enjoyed golf, music and poetry, but they say his loyalty and love for his family and his job surpassed his other interests.
“He was a great family man, very much devoted to his wife and children,” said Maureen Morrison, a HUPD officer in the Longwood Medical School campus who worked the shift before Pierce. “He was the chief cook and bottle washer there...
Morrison, who had known Pierce for 20 years, said she believed Pierce cheerily worked the midnight to 8 a.m. shift throughout his 33-year HUPD career.