Steve was a great kid, and a great man. As a kid, he was very sharing as were all the McMasters. He spent summers on Nantucket Island’s Surfside Beach and lived in a tiny cottage overlooking the beach and ocean. The cottage was the source of many wonderful memories. Steve had young Washington Connecticut family and Surfside neighborhood friends coming and going from that little cottage for years. The 12’x12’ living room was the vortex of many NY Yankee games and Boston Red Sox Games, Yahtzee, card, and board games, and talking sessions that lasted all night-each night throughout the summer. The itty-bitty bedrooms were chock full of youth sleeping on army cots who never-ever would have been able to go out to Nantucket. On Nantucket Steve facilitated many days full of surfing, sailing, swimming, biking, board games, whiffle ball, and batting away old cinders from the Nantucket Railroad steam engines that 60 years earlier passed nearby. Also, Steve gave out lots of free dinners and sandwiches-well, at least his mother did. As Steve developed into a man, he was also very kind and sharing with his friends. Although Steve eventually worked far from Nantucket and couldn’t spend annual summer vacations there, when on Nantucket Steve would include his old Nantucket friends in activities like the recent sports fishing trip that he financed for some of us in the summer 2021. Also, the planning and execution of a party for some of his old friends last summer on Nantucket. It is very sad that deep vein thrombosis was not diagnosed, and that Steve died from it after his many complaints to medical professionals of leg pain. Paula-Steve’s wife, Steve’s family and friends have lost a great man-perhaps earlier than we should have.
