Barry William Levine

NEWTON, Mass. – We announce the passing of Barry William Levine, M.D., on July 20, 2025, at the age of 85. A resident of Newton, Massachusetts.

Barry was born in Everett, Massachusetts, to Irving and Betty Levine, Lithuanian immigrants who came to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. Barry grew up in Portland. In 1958, he graduated from Deering High School where he was a star athlete and student.

Barry graduated cum laude in Chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1962 and in 1965 he graduated from Harvard Medical School. He then interned at The Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to Massachusetts for his medical residency with the Harvard Service at the Boston City Hospital and then a fellowship at the MGH in Pulmonology. In 1970, he joined the staff of the MGH and became an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Barry spent the next five decades at MGH where he cared for thousands of patients and touched many lives. He also educated and mentored the next generation of clinicians, always emphasizing and remembering that the “patient is human.”

In 1963, he married the love of his life and fellow Mainer, Ellen Haas. Barry, however, deeply loved and was most proud of his grandsons, Sam and Ben. He loved watching them develop as young men and took great joy in their educational and athletic accomplishments.

North Haven also became Barry and Ellen’s home away from home. In the early 1970s, after Barry served as the summer island doctor, they bought land and built a house on the island forming many enduring friendships with the island community.

Barry is survived by Ellen, his wife of 62-years, his daughter Susan J. Levine and her husband Matthew Archibald of South Portland Maine, his daughter Dr. Rachel Hitt and her husband John Hitt of Milton Massachusetts, and his two grandsons, Sam and Ben Hitt.

Funeral will be held on Wednesday July 23, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., at Temple Israel, 477 Longwood Avenue, Boston. Parking available. Interment to follow at Or Emet Cemetery, 776 Baker St., West Roxbury, Mass. Shiva at Temple Israel, 477 Longwood Avenue, Boston, from 1-3 p.m.

For a full obituary please visit http://www.brezniakfd.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Barry’s memory may be made to the Massachusetts General Hospital (https://giving.massgeneral.org/), the North Haven Foundation, which assists graduates of the North Haven Community School and adult residents of the Island pursuing post-secondary education (North Haven Foundation, PO Box 664, Rockland, ME 04841-0664) or the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (https://www.fidf.org/).