David T. Galloway

David T. Galloway, 77, died October 10, 2014, at Saint Elizabeth Home, East Greenwich, R. I. He was the husband of Joan Steere Galloway for 45 years.Survivors also include two daughters and their husbands, Jana G. and John A. Osborne of Canton, GA, and Taryn A. Galloway and Matthias Kolberg of Drobak, Norway, and a son, Ian F. Galloway and his companion Kelly McMahan of Austin, TX; a sister and her husband, Anne E. and Richard M. Bowen Jr. of North Kingstown; three grandchildren, and a number of in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews and their children.The son of Anna (Hirsch) and Fred G. Galloway, he was born in Providence in 1936, and for most of his first 32 years he lived in the house built by his maternal grandfather on Lowell Avenue. He moved to Scituate when he married in 1969.He attended Providence public schools and was a graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School, Class of January, 1955. In 1981, at the age of 45, he received a bachelor™s degree in history from the University of Rhode Island after completing studies with the College of Continuing Education.His 35-year career in journalism began in 1966, when he was hired as a reporter by the former Pawtuxet Valley Daily Times, now the Kent County Daily Times, in West Warwick. He became news editor several years later. The Providence Journal employed him in 1973 on its main news copy desk, and a year later he was transferred to the main copy desk of The Evening Bulletin. When publication of the latter halted in 1995 he returned to the Journal staff as a suburban news section editor. After 28 years with The Providence Journal Co. he retired in 2001. He was a member of The Providence Newspaper Guild.A life-long member of St. Paul™s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Providence, he was a former member of the Board of Deacons and former secretary of the Church Council. He was a former volunteer on-call tutor for middle- and high-school students in the church™s Academic Resource Center and for adults in the English Language Learners program.Mr. Galloway was a member of the group that began the Scituate Art Festival in 1967 to raise funds for restoring the interior of the town-owned Old Congregational Church on West Greenville Road (Route 116) in North Scituate. He often recalled standing with two of the festival™s primary founders on the front steps of the church at sunrise of the first one-day event, as the three of them wondered aloud if that initial event would attract any visitors. Today the festival draws tens of thousands of visitors daily over the Columbus Day holiday weekend.He also was a member of the original Old Congregational Church Restoration Committee for which he undertook research, publicity and other activities, finding and donating period hardware to replace what was missing when the restoration project began. In the decades since, the landmark building has been available to town residents for religious and historical events, and one of his daughters was married in the church.At the age of 15 Mr. Galloway enrolled as a cadet in the R.I. Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, and at 17½ he enlisted in the 103rd Field Artillery Battalion, 43rd Infantry Division, R.I. Army National Guard, in which he served nearly five years. He then served in the Regular Army for a little more than three years, mostly in Germany. He was a member of American Legion Post 19, Scituate.As a result of his Regular Army service Mr. Galloway developed an interest in codes, ciphers and secret writing and the solution of encrypted messages. For more than 50 years he collected books, manuals, pamphlets and some artifacts dealing with cryptology. He also enjoyed solving newspaper crossword puzzles.His myriad interests included the history and pre-history of Scituate and Rhode Island, as well as American art, Colonial architecture and furniture, and country antiques. He enjoyed visiting museums and historic sites of all kinds, and browsing in flea markets and antique shops in the U.S. and Europe. He also enjoyed listening to classical music.Mr. Galloway was a member of the Friends of St. Elizabeth Home, East Greenwich, where he and his wife volunteered one day a week.Calling hours will be Sunday, October 19, 2014 from 3:00-6:00pm at Winfield & Sons Funeral Home, 571 West Greenville Road (Route 116), North Scituate, 02857. The funeral service will be held at St. Paul™s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 445 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI, 02907 on Monday, October 20 at 11:00am. Private burial will be in Acotes Hill Cemetery, Chepachet.As Mr. Galloway wished, donations in lieu of flowers would be appreciated to The Gbarnga School Mission Project, c/o St. Paul™s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 445 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907; or to Saint Elizabeth Home, One Saint Elizabeth Way, East Greenwich, RI 02818.

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David T. Galloway

October 10, 2014