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He was the youngest of five children who grew up in Scituate, Mass., where his parents owned the local five-and-dime store.

The most severe damage happened in Scituate where hundreds of large trees were uprooted or snapped at their bases.

The hardest hit communities were Johnston and Scituate, with less damage in North Providence, Cumberland an Providence, she said.

For Eileen Page, a 78-year-old handwriting consultant in Scituate, Massachusetts, who also specializes in forensic forgery and suspicious signatures, a move away from cursive has even made writing signatures simpler.

The oldest of three children, John Malcolm Billings was born in Winchester, Mass., on Aug. 7, 1923, and grew up in Scituate, a coastal town south of Boston.