Bayard Roosevelt "Linc" Lincoln, age 86, died peacefully, Monday, August 13, 2012 at Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill. Bayard was born on July 11, 1926, in Boston and grew up in Wareham before relocating to Newburyport and graduating from Newburyport High School in 1944. He enlisted in the Navy as an electronics technician and was deployed to Guam at the end of WWII. He attended Northeastern University under the GI Bill, earning a degree in Industrial Engineering in 1952. He was also commissioned as a Lt. (JG) in the U.S. Navy Reserves. He married Charlotte Jones on Nantucket in 1951. Charlotte passed away in 1976 and Bayard married Loretta Bourinot Malloy in 1983. Bayard worked as a sales representative for Sylvania Electric in Woburn from 1961 to 1971. Linc later started his own company, Lincoln Technical Sales of Reading. Bayard was an active member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati and the Massachusetts Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. For 39 years he coordinated and presented the Massachusetts MOLLUS ROTC awards to 195 distinguished cadets from Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Massachusetts ROTC programs. For his dedication Bayard received the MOLLUS Meritorious Service Medal. Bayard is survived by his second wife, Loretta, of Billerica. He also leaves his children, Howard and his wife Katherine of Burke, VA, Nancy Lincoln of Salem, NH, Matthew and his wife Carol of Atlanta, GA, and Philip and his wife Janet of Lancaster, MA, his eight grandchildren, James, Martha, Charles, Elinor, Preston, Sarah, George, and Andrew Lincoln, his sister, Alice DeGrave and her husband Clarence of Haverhill, his six step children, Donna, Susan, Patricia, Edward, John, and Mary, and his 14 step grandchildren.