A motorcyclist who was killed in a crash with a pickup truck on Route 1A in Ipswich last weekend was a fisherman who was married for nearly 50 years.

Gloucester resident Charles Parisi, Jr., 72, was declared dead at the scene of the crash on High Street near the Dow Brook Conservation Area around 4 p.m. on Aug. 24, the Essex County District Attorney’s Office said previously. The pickup truck driver stayed at the scene and cooperated with police.

Charles S. Parisi Jr. was born in Gloucester on March 25, 1953, to Charles and Virginia Parisi, according to his obituary . He was a fisherman most of his life, having worked on his father’s fishing boats from a young age.

After graduating from Gloucester High School in 1971, Parisi became the owner of a lobster boat he called the American G

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