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Mary Deissler

Dec 16, 2025

Obituary: Mary Deissler Passes Away at 69

The former CEO of Boston’s Handel & Haydn Society, Mary Deissler, died on Nov. 3 after a long struggle with brain cancer. Deissler was born on Dec. 30, 1955, in New York. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in German and Chinese from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. She married James Deissler {…}

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