David led a dynamic and adventurous life.  He was intelligent, aware, and generous.
Early summers were spent on Mayhew Island, where his father was the director of the Groton school camp.  He remained a supporter of the Mayhew Program for at-risk New Hampshire boys and umpired their yearly baseball game against Pasquaney on Newfound Lake every summer.

A graduate of Tufts, David was president of Theta Delta Chi and pitched Tufts winning baseball game in the college world series.  He received his MBA from Harvard, served in the Navy from 1952 to 1955, and worked for Kimberly Clark for 35 years in the new products and invention division. An avid sportsman, David ran 20 marathons, including seven Boston marathons.  He played tennis, hiked, skied, camped, and sailed.  His most significant sailing venture was a one-and-a-half-year trip circumnavigating North America.  David was respectful and tolerant.  An ardent Episcopalian, he preferred the 8:00 service.  While living on the coast of Georgia, he attended an all-black church, and when he married Jean, the congregation took a picture of the inside of the church, signed by all the members, and gave it to him as a wedding present.

In 1993, the Lincolns moved to Maine.  Here, David was on the budget committee in York and later in Kittery, he built houses with Habitat for Humanity, was on the Board of the Mariners House in Boston, mentored a boy in the Kittery Mitchell School, and remained active on committees at Tufts.  He volunteered at the Telluride Film Festival four times and met Ken Burns.  David hiked, skied, camped, and traveled extensively with Jean.  A skilled woodworker and jeweler, he honed his craft at Haystack and San Miguel Allende.
There will be no service, but his service will live on in the hearts of those who need the social services of Mainspring in Kittery and see his name in the entrance room.

All services are being handled by J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home