Dick (Bull) Bancroft died November 9, 2003. He is buried at Quantico National Cemetary in Triangle, VA.
Evarts G. Loomis of Hemet California died on October 2, 2003. He was an internationally known homeopathic physician, surgeon, author, lecturer, and visionary who is regarded by some as “the father of holistic medicine“. Loomis preferred to be called Evarts rather than “doctor”. He worked in the huts from 1930-1934.
H. Erich Heinemann, an economist and financial writer who moved between careers for nearly 40 years, died in an automobile accident on September 4, 2003 in Great Neck, N.Y. He was 71 and lived in Great Neck. Mr. Heinemann began his career at Business Week, where he was a financial writer for five years. He…
Barbara Lange Dupee, formerly of Weston and Falmouth died Feb. 9, 2003 at the age of 75. She worked at Pinkham Notch in the 1940’s and was the sister of OH “Shorty” Lange. Born in Malden. She was the daughter of the late George A. and Mabel (Johnson) Lange and the wife of the late…
Priscilla Emery Bissel 84, of Apopka FL and Jackson NH, passed away on Sept. 26, 2002, after a brief illness. Born in Portsmouth, Mrs. Bissell was a graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Upon graduation, she was sworn in as the first female officer from New England in the newly formed Women’s Army…
Casey Hodgdon died June 15, 2002. He is survived by his wife Julia, a son, Travis, and a daughter, Trisha Ouellette. He had two brothers, both ex-hutmen, Earl and John. Guy Gosselin wrote the following eulogy: “As the poet said, there are two mighty voices; one is of the sea, one of the mountains. Both…
Ralph Batchelder, 94, died in Mammoth California, March 5, 2002. Born in 1907, at age seven he lost both parents to an influenza epidemic and was raised by relatives and his older siblings. He received an engineering degree from Northeastern University in Boston and married Eleanor Harmon in 1934. He worked in the huts from…
Rob Ohler, 85, died February 1, 2002 at Maine Veterans Home in Augusta. He was a forestry major at the University of Maine, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1937 and then received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1941. From 1934 to 1938, he worked four summers at Madison and one at Galehead.…
Millet G. Morgan died at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center January 14, 2002. He was founder of the Radio Physics Lab at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and a leading researcher in the field of ionospheric physics. He grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire and had a life-long interest in ham radios, graduating from Cornell with degrees…
Benjamin Ely Cole, Jr., M.D., 83, died January 2002 at home under hospice care. Dr. Cole was born in Bethlehem, PA. The son of Benjamin and Dorothy Cole, he married Jennifer Habian of New York City in 1944. He graduated from Taft School in 1936, Yale University in 1940 and Jefferson Medical School in 1944.…
Ray Falconer passed away in December 2001. Lonesome 1932-1935. made a life-long career out of his weather observations while working in the Franconias. Busy in his retirement as a weather commentator on several radio stations around his Burnt Hills, New York home. Ray was the senior research associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at…
Irving “Ike” Meredith of Sandwich, New Hampshire passed away on Oct. 20, 2001, at his home in Sandwich at the age of 80. He was born May 5, 1921, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of the late Irving and Lois (Woodley) Meredith. He was a graduate of Kimball Union Academy in Meridian, and later attended…
Misha Kirk, father and mountaineer, died October 2, 2001 at his home in Glen, NH, from a neurological seizure. He had recently turned 50. Little could either of us have imagined, while discussing his curriculum vitae in preparation for his presentation to last year’s OH Winter Reunion, that his bio would used for his obit.…
Arthur “Whitey” Whitehead was our oldest OH at 97. He died in Quincy, Massachusetts July 26, 2001. He worked at Pinkham from 1922-1927, the same year Joe Dodge arrived and was Joe’s partner during the early part of his career. In the fall of 1926, he and Joe rescued the cook from the Glen House,…
June 2001: I am sorry to report, and was saddened by the news that Mark Kingsbury was killed riding his motorcycle near his home in Banff, Canada in early June. Mark was a Madhouse man through and through spending 1967 and 1969 at Madison and the interceding Summer at Greenleaf. He was a dynamic figure…
Elizabeth Beth Belcher died Saturday, March 3, 2001. Wife of Foochow and mother of Jeff (Zealand), Bill (Lakes), Joanie (Pinkham), Charlie (Madison) and Betsy (Pinkham) and, according to Bill, worked at Madison when Foochow was a hutman. A memorial service was held March 17 at the First Congregational Church in Melrose.
David “Deacon” Sleeper died February 4, 2001 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born on February 1, 1922 and died on February 4, 2001 at the age of 79. David last resided in Ithaca, New York. He worked for Joe Dodge in 1942.
Lewis Prouty Bissell, 82, of Jackson, NH died December 10, 2000. Born in Medford, MA, he was a graduate of UNH where he met and later married Priscilla Emery who worked for Joe Dodge. He then received a master s degree in forestry at Yale and served in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He…
Paul Doherty 6/19/1919 – 06/18/2000. A memorial service was held for Paul, 81, July 22 in Gorham. Though not a hutman, his activities during a busy outdoors career were intertwined with the huts. After WWII serving as a Navy volunteer (precursor to the SEALS), he became a NH Conservation Office moving through the ranks until…
Peter Limmer 79, of Intervale, NH died June 15, 2000 at the Memorial Hospital after a long illness. A devoted father and husband, he was born in Vachendorf, Bavaria-Germany. The son of Peter Limmer Sr. and Maria (Buecherl) Limmer. He was predeceased by his brother Francis Limmer in 1997.Peter served with distinction, at Roosevelt Field…