Malcolm Robert Banks, age 94, passed away on July 7, 2024 at his home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Malcolm is survived by his five children, Jonathan, Jennifer, Carrie, Christopher and Matthew, their spouses and partners Elissa, Wiltse, Jane and Alysia, 10 grandchildren, Lincoln, Morgan, Paul, Tom, Ada, Christopher, Audrey, Louise, Henry and Rufus, as well as two great grandchildren Isabella and Luca. He is predeceased by his wife Jane MacNeil Banks, his three siblings Barbara Jones, Janet Howell and William Banks.

Malcolm was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey in 1930 to Harold Elias Banks and Emilie Smith Banks, as the youngest of four children. He attended Lehigh University and graduated in 1954 with a degree in civil engineering after serving two years in the Korean War in a National Guard unit repairing armored vehicles. He married Jane Frances MacNeil, who he first met at Sagamore Beach, in 1956 in West Newton, Massachusetts and settled in Brooklyn where he worked for Union Carbide and W.R. Grace. He moved with Jane and their two young children to New Jersey and worked for General Electric there and then in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1966 the family moved to Michigan and in 1969 he began work for T.D. Shea Manufacturing, an auto parts company where he worked until he retired in 1992 as Technical Director. The family settled in Bloomfield Hills, MI, where all five children were raised and where they lived for 23 years.

Upon retiring he and Jane lived half time in Washington, DC, near some of their children, and half time in Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts, the place they truly loved the most and where they first met. Sagamore is where Malcolm and Jane took their children each summer to experience the wonders of polar bear plunges and the Colony Club summer camp, and it is where they spent much of their retirement, living in the house built by Jane's parents in the 1950s.

After Jane's passing in 2001, Malcolm spent the last 20 or so years of his life with his close partner Rachel Fagerburg, a childhood acquaintance also made in Sagamore Beach. In 2016 he and Rachel moved from Washington, DC to The Village at Duxbury, where he and Rachel made many good friends and always felt part of a loving community, including the staff who always showed such care and attention. Malcolm was fully embraced by Rachel's family and grandchildren and cherished the many dinners, trips and special family events he shared with them.

An engineer at heart, Malcolm was always tinkering with things and could fix and build just about anything, from intricate models to lawn mowers to cars. In 1984 he acquired an antique 1965 MG Roadster and he took apart the engine by himself, rebuilding it piece by piece in his garage. He is perhaps best known for driving around Sagamore Beach in his "fun car" and tooting the horn at passersby. He loved the beach, teaching his kids to fish in their small wooden skiff in Cape Cod Bay and digging for clams at low tide. He was an enthusiastic aficionado of opera and classical music, and had a fine baritone voice himself, singing as a young man and later in life in a men's chorus at his Duxbury residence. Malcolm was very keen on traveling and gourmet cooking, and he especially enjoyed various kinds of cruises to destinations all over the world with both Jane and Rachel. When not traveling or tinkering around the house he could often be found later in life tackling the crossword puzzle, a hobby which helped keep his mind sharp as a tack.