Brookline

The Bell O’Dea Funeral Home in Brookline, Mass., announced the former late-night star’s father, physician and epidemiologist Thomas, died “peacefully” Monday at age 95.

The obituary did not reveal a cause of death for Thomas, who was also a longtime Brookline resident and former associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

“I cried, a lot,” said Danielle Maynard, who recently received notice from Navient that nearly $40,000 in private loans she owed for her studies at the New England Institute of Art in Brookline, Mass., would be wiped out.

After a childhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, Simons graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and earned a Ph.D. in math at the age of 23 from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962.

So she’s back in Boston, a year after she led the pack through Brookline with the crowd chanting her name.