David L. Presberg

David Presberg died a little after Midnight on Friday, December 19th,
2025, at Community Hospice House in Merrimack, New Hampshire after
a long illness. He was 83 years old.
He preferred to be called “Pres” because David was a very popular name.
Born in Rochester, New York, on August 11th 1942, to Max (an ophthalmologist)
and Jeannette (Cohen) Presberg. Pres grew up in a close family where there were grandparents,
aunts and uncles, and cousins, all living nearby in Rochester. Pres went to Dartmouth
College, where he was active in the Dartmouth Outing Club, but left to join the army
during the Vietnam War. He was stationed at West Point because of his knowledge of
computers. During a leave he was introduced to his future wife, Carole, at a friend’s house.
After discharge, he and Carole moved to Manhattan, where e he gained his Bachelor’s
Degree from New York University.
Carole and Pres were married in an outdoor ceremony on a friend’s hill near Ithaca,
New York, among family and friends and folk music, on July 6th 1969. After living one
more year in Manhattan, they moved to Massachusetts, where Pres worked as a software
engineer for 21 years. When the company Pres worked for folded, Pres got a job as a
software engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and they moved to a farm in
Candor, New York, where they raised sheep, and had a pony, llamas, and Border Collie
dogs. Carole was the farmer, and Pres always said he was the grunt labor.
When the department at Cornell that Pres worked for also folded, they moved back
to Massachusetts. Pres worked for a few more years for several different software
companies, and then he retired.
Pres leaves his wife of more than 56 years, Carole, their two dogs, Sprite and
Mickey, his sister and brother-in-law Martha and Bob Supnik, two nephews Ben and
Jonathan Supnik, and their wives and children.

Donations can be made in David’s name to https://www.sweetpawsrescue.org a well-
known animal rescue in Massachusetts.

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