Barbara Lange Dupee

By The O.H.A. | February 9, 2003
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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

By The O.H.A. | September 26, 2002
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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

By The O.H.A. | June 15, 2002
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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

By The O.H.A. | March 5, 2002
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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

By The O.H.A. | February 1, 2002
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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 ‘Skillet’ Morgan

By The O.H.A. | January 14, 2002
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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

By The O.H.A. | January 1, 2002
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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

By The O.H.A. | December 1, 2001
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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

By The O.H.A. | October 20, 2001
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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

By The O.H.A. | October 2, 2001
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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.…