2015 - The O.H.A. | The Old Hutcroo Association

Charlie Kellogg

By The O.H.A. | September 21, 2015 |

Charlie Kellogg passed away Monday, September 21 2015. Charlie has a long history in the White Mountains, and undoubtedly many friends still reside in the valley. Charlie started working in the AMC huts as a young teenager. He was the hut master when chief Justice Douglas visited the Lakes of the Clouds Hut. Thereafter National…

Lucas Ryan Richardson

By The O.H.A. | September 12, 2015 |

Lucas Ryan Richardson, 25, of Hailey, Idaho, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 12 2015, after sustaining an injury in a climbing accident in the rugged Pioneer Mountains of Idaho. Luke was born February 10, 1990 to Peter and Stephanie Richardson in Berlin, Vt. He attended Spaulding High School in Barre, Vt., and graduated from the University of…

‘Stonewall’ diZerega

By The O.H.A. | June 24, 2015 |

Alfred Lubaugh Bernier diZerega III (Buddy) died at home on June 24, 2015. He was 88 years old. He was born at Rock Spring Farm on Loudoun Street in Leesburg Virginia on July 8 1926, the son of Alfred L.B. diZerega II of Aldie and Lucy Harrison diZerega of Leesburg. After graduation from Fishburne Military…

Bruce Blake

By The O.H.A. | June 15, 2015 |

Bruce Borsum Blake, 80, passed away on Monday June 15, 2015 in Bar Harbor Maine. He was born on September 9, 1934 in Queens, New York, the son of Winchester and Elsa (Borsum) Blake. He was married to the former Margaret Stebbins of Schenectady for 55 years prior to her passing in 2013. Bruce grew…

Clare O’Connell

By The O.H.A. | June 1, 2015 |

Clare O’Connell, 51 of Newton, died June 1, 2015. She is survived by her husband Michael A. Collora of Newton, and two stepchildren, Rebecca Collora Buckman, New York City and Nicholas A. Collora of Brighton. Clare was one of seven children of Laurence and Frances O’Connell of Worcester who predeceased her. She is also survived…

Connie Crooker

By The O.H.A. | April 10, 2015 |

Constance Emerson “Connie” Crooker, 68, author of Melanoma Mama and co-author of Doc Jackson’s Letters Home: A Combat Medic’s 1968 Letters from Vietnam, died Friday morning, April 10, 2015 at her home. Born July 23, 1946 in Portland, Maine, the daughter of the late Rev. Charles W. Crooker and Elizabeth (MacGregor) Crooker Bates. She received…