A leading member of the Boston Investment Community

H. Bradlee Perry, of Needham, husband of Virginia (Ginny) Perry for 64 years (until her death in September 2021), and a leading member of the Boston investment community for over 50 years, died peacefully in his sleep on June 25, 2023. He was 96 years old.

Mr. Perry grew up in Brookline. He attended Dexter School, graduated cum laude from Milton Academy in 1945, from Harvard College in 1950 (after serving in the U.S. Navy 19451946), and from Harvard Business School in 1952 – where he was a Baker Scholar.

When he married his wife, Ginny, in 1957, and the couple moved to Wellesley, where they raised three daughters.

After eight years at the investment counsel firm of Loomis, Sayles & Co., in 1960, he joined David L. Babson & Co. It was one of the pioneering firms back then in the new concept of growth stock investing – after the Great Depression and World War II, with their drag on economic growth, had made stocks unappealing to many investors.

Mr. Perry became president of Babson in 1975, Chairman in 1982, and retired in 2002 to become an independent investment consultant. In 2006, he became a member of the Advisory Committee of Marble Harbor Investment Counsel.

He was a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society, the New York Society of Security Analysts, and the Boston Economic Club.

For thirty years, Mr. Perry was editor and primary writer of The Babson Staff Letter, a widely read and oft-quoted investment publication. Later he wrote Ruminations, another investment publication that was broadly read. He was a frequent guest on the popular PBS television program, Wall Street Week, from the 1970s through the early 2000s. He also gave talks to a number of investment groups around the country.

In 1985, Mr. Perry received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Investment Clubs for “bringing the principles of sound investment analysis to thousands of individual investors and institutions for the management of their funds – but in talks and through an analytical publication readily understood by all. His investment education contribution follows in the Boston tradition of The Prudent Man Rule and is marked by thoroughness and perspective.”

In 1999, he wrote and published an investment book, Winning the Investment Marathon, which described effective techniques for successful longterm investing.

Active in charitable and civic organizations, Mr. Perry served for many years as a trustee of NewtonWellesley Hospital (where he was Chairman in the mid-1980s), Blue Hill (Maine) Hospital, Gould Academy, and Tenacre Country Day School. He also was an overseer of Partners Health Care System, WGBH, Lars Anderson Auto Museum, and Island Heritage Trust. He was a Town Meeting

Member in Brookline, where he also served as President of the Brookline Taxpayers Association. He was later a Town Meeting Member in Wellesley and worked to help the town’s retail businesses.

Mr. Perry spent every summer for 85 years in Maine, and was a summer resident of Deer Isle for forty years. In addition to his service with Blue Hill Hospital and Island Heritage Trust, he was a longtime director of the Island Country Club and its treasurer in 2006-2007. He was an active golfer at the club, and an enthusiastic sailor on Penobscot Bay whenever the wind was right.

H. Bradlee Perry was preceded in death by his brother, Roger A.

Perry; and his wife, Ginny Perry. He is survived by his sister, Betsy Ball, of Needham, MA; his three daughters: Susan C. Perry of Upton, MA, Anne B. Perry of Marion, MA, and Linda P. Kimbrell (husband Tom Kimbrell) of Winthrop, WA; his grandchildren: Bradlee McKibben (husband Wyatt) of Jeffersonville, VT, Ian Jackson of Cambridge, MA, Grace Jackson of Brookline, MA, and Andrea Kimbrell of Melbourne, Australia; extended family, Rachelle and EA Weymuller of Winthrop, WA, Hannah Weymuller of San Francisco, CA, and Eva Weymuller of Anchorage, AK; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A Memorial Service will be held on Thursday, September 7th at 2:30 pm at the Wellesley Village Church, 2 Central St., Wellesley, MA. In lieu of flowers, donations in Brad’s name may be made to Newton Wellesley Hospital, 2014 Washington St., Newton, MA 02462, Attn: Development Office. To share a memory of Mr. Perry, please visit www. eatonfuneralhomes.com