Jefferson "Jeff" Albert Small passed away peacefully at home in Barrington, on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 in the company of his wife and daughters, after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was the husband of Sarah (Sally) Perkins Small for 56 years. 

Soon after his birth to Stillman Wallace Small and Dorothea Albert Small in Manhattan, NYC, on Feb. 15, 1932, he moved to Shushan, NY, where he was raised by his mother. He attended Shushan’s two-room schoolhouse and graduated from Salem Washington Academy in 1949.  

He joined the US Army Reserves in Glens Falls in 1951 and then transferred to the active Army, serving as a sergeant for 15 months in Korea directly following the Armistice. When he returned to the States in 1955, he entered the University of New Hampshire, where he met his future wife. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, graduating in 1959. 

Following two years of employment with White Motor Company in Albany, the couple moved to Barrington, in 1961. There Jeff began a long and successful career in sales of heavy-duty trucks in the Boston-Providence area, as an employee of White-Autocar, Mack Trucks, and Volvo, before retiring in 1997. 

Throughout his life, Jeff divided his time between Barrington and his boyhood home in Shushan where he kept in touch with childhood, school, and Army friends.  

Jeff was active in his daughters’ lives, acting as a coach for various athletic teams and rewarding players with Awful Awfuls and jelly donuts. He was a prolific reader, especially of books on American history and World War II. 

He is survived by his wife, Sally, and his three daughters, Jerilyn (Jeri) Small Dunphy (Andrew Dunphy) of Fairfax, Va.; Jennifer Jane Small of Shushan, NY; and Katharine Faith Small of Stoneham, Mass.; eight grandchildren; and his Albert cousins of Cambridge, NY, and West Arlington, Vt. Calling hours were held at Smith-Mason Funeral Home in Riverside, Monday July 11, followed by a private burial in Woodlawn cemetery Cambridge NY.   

We wish to acknowledge the wonderful team at Mass General Hospital who cared for Jeff and to support promising research in Pancreatic Cancer Research. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory can be made to Massachusetts General Hospital, and directed specifically to "Dr. Carlos Fernandes-del Castillo Pancreatic Cancer research." Checks can be mailed to Massachusetts General Hospital c/o Development Office, Attn: Mary McQuillen, 125 Nashua Street, Suite 540, Boston, MA 02114, or The library fund at Salem Washington Academy, 41 East Broadway, Salem NY 12865. Please visit smithmason.com for online condolences.