Donald DePiero

Donald DePiero, 89, of Peabody, formerly of Beverly, passed away on March 4, 2026, at Sunrise at Gardner Park Assisted Living. Son of the late Cesare and Villa (Minuzzi) DePiero, he was born and raised in Beverly. He graduated from Beverly High School in 1955, served in the USMC Reserve Unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina until 1963, and later earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Fitchburg State College after attending Boston University. He began his career at Raytheon Corporation and retired after 35 years as a Senior Corporate Executive.

Following his retirement in 1995, Donald and his wife Sandra designed and built a home in East Orleans, Massachusetts, and spent their winters in Naples, Florida. He became an avid golfer, and he enjoyed hiking, gardening, and sailing on Cape Cod with family and friends. He learned to sail at the Orleans Yacht Club and traveled extensively throughout Europe on group biking tours with Sandra. Deeply proud of his Italian heritage, he researched his ancestors in Cordenons, Italy, and created a detailed family tree that has become a lasting DePiero family legacy. This tree is shared and updated each year at the DePiero Family Reunion at Lynch Park in Beverly, where his early ancestors once gathered, a tradition that continues today.

Donald was a remarkably creative and talented man who could fix, repair, or build almost anything around the home and was always willing to help others do the same. Many of these traits have been passed along to his sons.

He is survived by his loving wife of 67 years, Sandra (Makarowitz) DePiero; his sons, Brian DePiero and his wife Jeanne of Hamilton, Michael DePiero and his wife Nan of Beverly, Douglas DePiero and his wife Tina of Swampscott, and Christopher DePiero and his wife Lynne of Beverly; his brother Richard DePiero and his wife Linda of Beverly; his sisters Gloria Caccivio of Beverly and Delores Clayton and her husband Walter of Hamilton; ten grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren, Bryson and Brooks.