Deborah Digges, 1950-2009

Published: Monday, April 13, 2009

A local resident fell from McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Friday in what police believe was a suicide. Deborah Digges, 59, of 101 Blue Hills Road, Amherst, Mass., was seen on Friday walking along the upper parts of the stadium by the Temple University
women’s lacrosse team. Members of the team called the University of
Massachusetts Police Department when they discovered her body on the
ground near the stadium.

Digges was transported to Cooley-Dickenson hospital where she was pronounced dead. UMass
spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said it is believed that Digges had no
connection to the University and that police suspect no foul play in
her death.

Digges
was a local author who often attended and participated in poetry
readings. She was a professor of English at Tufts University.
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