Kathy Duggan Wilson of Intervale, passed away December 22, 2012 after a long battle with lung disease. The wife of AMC Pinkham Senior Cook Dave Wilson. Dave, who has worked for the AMC for nearly 41 years, married Kathy 35 years ago at Pinkham Notch. She is survived by her son Paul, sisters Marie Duggan,…
John Hull died December 1, 2012. He worked at Greenleaf in 1937 while at MIT and wrote a memory published in the Resuscitator about the time Teen Dodge came to Greenleaf to nurse the ailing croo. He and his wife Mabel lived in Ivyland, PA.
James Marston, 86, passed peacefully Dec. 1, 2012, at Suncoast Hospice in St. Petersburg. Born in Worcester, Mass., July 3, 1926, and formerly of Satsuma Florida, Jim was predeceased by his loving wife of almost 58 years, Flora (Cameron). He leaves behind three children, Daniel and Pat Marston of Standish, Maine; Candy and Bruce Andrew…
Charles H. Darlington, 70, of 2 Lane Lane, Ashburnham, died peacefully at home on Wednesday, November 28, 2012. He was born in Cambridge, MA on January 11, 1942, son of the late Horace and Maude Beatrice (Pfalzgraf) Darlington. Charlie was a graduate of Wellesley High School and Paul Smiths College with a degree in forestry.…
Channing Snyder, 59, died 10/30/2012 unexpectedly at his Sweet Clover Farm in Eaton, NH. Channing lived what by all accounts was a uniquely rich life. Born in Miami, Florida in 1952, while his mother was on vacation, he was raised in Denmark (Europe, not Maine) before relocating to Concord, N.H., where he graduated from High…
Priscilla “Nissy” Dewey Houghton, 87, of Cohasset, MA died July 6, 2012. She worked at Pinkham the winter of 1945 and sent us a memory titled “Winter During WWII at Pinkham” which was published in last spring’s Resuscitator. She was a former skier, equestrian, freelance writer, playwright, lyricist, and published poet.
Richard Crosbie Humphreys, 62, died on May 3, 2012 at his home in St. Francisville, Louisiana. He was recently retired from LSU Facility Management as campus Arborist, a position he loved. Richard worked at Madison Springs Hut in 1967 and on the AMC Trail Crew. He was a native of Boston, MA. He is survived…
Lindsey F. Rice, 77, of Chester, NH died Friday March 9, 2012 at his home. Mr. Rice was born in Marblehead, MA on August 18, 1934, a son of the late William B. and Elizabeth (Lindsey) Rice. He had resided in Chester for the past 44 years, raised and educated in the Marblehead area. After…
Peter R. Tessier, 45, of Eaton passed away on March 3, 2012. Almost a month prior to his death Pete was diagnosed with Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. He was born in Salem, MA on January 28th, 1967, the son of Robert and Rita Tessier. Throughout the Valley Pete was known for having many different occupations…
Ann Dodge Middleton, 83, died at Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro, on February 20, 2012. She was born in Boston on November 12,1928, the daughter of Joseph B. Dodge and Kerstin P. Dodge. She was raised in Pinkham Notch, educated in the Gorham schools, and she graduated from Saint Mary’s-in-the-Mountains School (now The White Mountain School) in…
William Lynch “Porky” Curwen, 86, died on Feb 12, 2012 at home in Westwood, MA with his wife of 52 years, Ruth, and his two cats by his side. He was born in 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, 3rd son of Henry Darcy Curwen and Carrie Lynch Curwen. He was raised in Exeter, New Hampshire, where…
George Hamilton, 88, died at the N.H. Veterans Home in Tilton New Hampshire January 26, 2012. He was born in Philadelphia June 13, 1924, the son of Frank and Katherine (Twombly) Hamilton. As a child he lived and attended elementary school in Marblehead, Mass. He is a graduate of Tilton School in Tilton, class of…
Kendall M. Whiting of Pensacola, FA passed away on December 31, 2011 a few minutes before the start of the New Year. He was born in New Bedford, MA on July 18, 1941 and spent his formative years in Stamford, CT. After graduating from Central Connecticut State College he spent the spring of 1964 working…
Jean Macmillan Bennion, a long-time resident of Hingham, Massachusetts and Whitefield, New Hampshire died November 11, 2011 at White Horse Village in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania after a long illness. Born in Boston in 1929, Jean was the daughter of the late Stuart and Margaret (McCorkle) Macmillan. A 1948 graduate of Hingham High School, she attended…
Elizabeth “Lib” MacGregor Crooker Bates, died tranquilly on October 21, 2011 at her home in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire. In her 92nd year, she was profiled as founder of a group of retired hikers in the book, Over the Hill Hikers, and she won L.L. Bean’s 2011 Outdoor Hero Award. Lib was born in Reading,…
Clark ‘Ringo’ Perry passed away October 6, 2011 at the age of 64, at Memorial Hospital in North Conway. He is survived by his brothers, Steve, Sheldon and Gardiner. Clark grew up in Wayland, Mass., and attended Wayland Public Schools, during which time he was a frequent visitor to the North Country. He skied at…
Huntington Woodman Curtis spent his 90th and final summer on Bailey Island, Maine eating a bit of everything that swam, crawled or lived in the sand and mud of Casco Bay. The son of Pierson and Dr. Winifred Curtis, MD, of Stony Brook, New York, he learned to navigate by the stars with a sextant,…
Royden E. “Roy”Arsenault, 71, husband to Leona (Gray) Arsenault, of Warren Rd., Westerly, passed away on Sunday, August 28, 2011. Roy was born in Berlin, NH, the son of the late Ernest and Yvonne Arsenault. He was employed as a systems analyst for Aetna Insurance for many years. Roy was a L.Cpl. in the US…
Fred Richardson, 83, died August 8, 2011 in Keene, NH following a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. He worked at Madison in 1945. Educated at Kent School and Pomfret School in Connecticut and at Brown University, he later moved there from Concord, MA to Jaffrey, NH with his family. He owned and operated The Village…
Richard Archibald, 87, died June 21, 2011 in Locust Grove, VA. He worked at Lakes and Pinkham in 1942. According to his wife Margaret , they had just celebrated their 63rd anniversary and remembered attempting a Pinkham honeymoon, but retreated to the more comfortable surroundings of Cape Cod. Richard had attempted to get into the…