Lynn Wolff, Boston, died March 20, 2016, the day after turning 60, at Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers, Massachusetts, of cancer that had metastasized. She had lived in Boston for many years.
The youngest of four children, Lynn grew up in Delmont, east of Pittsburgh. Her mother, the former Jacqueline Moyer, was a guidance counselor, and her father, John Wolff Jr., was an engineer who worked in computer management.
Ms. Wolff graduated from Cornell in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and received a master’s degree three years later from Harvard Graduate School of Design. She served as president of the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and as a commissioner of the Boston Civic Design Commission and was a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
She was the co-founder, president and principal at Copley Wolff Design Group in Boston where she created a portfolio than ranged from the greater Boston area to the rest of the country.
Her husband, David Newton, met her when they started out at Cornell University. On Ms. Wolff’s first day at Cornell, David Newton introduced himself after spotting her across a cafeteria. They dated for a decade and David proposed in 1984. They skied at Sugarbush and had a second home in Warren and also spent time at Kingswood Lake, east of New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee.
In addition to her husband and sister, Jill Bruno Hatzis of Shelton, Connecticut, Ms. Wolff leaves two brothers, John III of South Burlington, Vermont, and Jeffrey of Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. Family and friends will gather to celebrate Ms. Wolff’s life at 11 a.m. on April 30 at Old South Church in Boston, a date chosen to ensure spring flowers will be in bloom.
