Joseph Conway

Joseph Allen Conway of Auburndale, MA died at the end of a long illness at Newton-Wellesley Hospital on February 17, 2020 at the age of 79. Joe was born in Houston, Texas to John Conway and Deborah Slarve Conway. He graduated from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) with BA and MA degrees in English Literature. He also spent 6 months at the Sorbonne in Paris, France in the 1960s. After working in souvenir and antique sales, he assisted his mother (then Deborah Shapiro after a second marriage) for several years to develop and grow her company, Parnell Personnel Consultants. Joe subsequently became a self-taught expert and established his own business in antique clocks and watches, including their repair. He sold and traded at antique fairs and shows throughout the country and was a well-known and respected dealer.

Joe was a raconteur and loved to cook. He had a creative entrepreneurial mind which led him to invent and patent the Binocumount, an attachment to a tripod for stabilizing binoculars. Joe is predeceased by his mother, father, sister Jackie Conway deSavage, and brother Leon Bauman. He leaves his cousins Arnold Gordon (Greenwich, CT), Sylvia Gordon (Alexandria, VA), Steven Monis (Brookline, MA), Joel Slarve (Randolph, MA), Michael Slarve (Lebanon, TN), Richard Slarve (Walnut Creek, CA), and his nieces Gabriel Heath (Bridgewater, MA) and Heather deSavage (Willimantic, CT). He is buried at the Beth El Cemetery on Baker Street in West Roxbury.