Bob Temple died on Sunday, March 16, 2014, just months shy of his 97th birthday. Bob was born in Amesbury, Mass. on June 1, 1917, son of George Howard Temple, Sr. and Edna Temple. He attended Amesbury High School, Worcester Academy and Dartmouth College. His association with the White Mountains began at an early age…
CDR Ethan Ensign DuBois (USNR), 60, of Bristol, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, March 7, 2014. Ethan was the loving husband of Linda Lou Borges-DuBois, the proud father of Thomas DuBois, Timothy DuBois and Edward DuBois, and the son of Sara (Shaw) DuBois and the late James DuBois. Ethan was a graduate of…
Jim Hamilton died Saturday February 1, 2014 at his home in Cohasset following a brief battle with bladder cancer. He was 71. Jim was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of Marjorie and Harold Hamilton. He attended Williston Northampton School and Dartmouth College and received a masters degree in graphic arts. Jim had a long…
Edgar N Hobby Jr. passed away on December 16, 2013 in Greenville South Carolina at the age of 83, after an extended illness. He worked for Joe Dodge in 1948 & 1949. Mr. Hobby was born in Lynn, MA, the son of Eva and Edgar Hobby. Prior to college, Ed was a hut man at…
Robert L. Daniels, formerly of West Newton, died Wednesday, Oct 16, 2013 in Radford Virginia. He was born November 14, 1921 in Waltham, Massachusetts to Dr. Louis Riley and Cora Colburn Daniels. Bob was predeceased by his wife, Ruth Ripley Daniels, son Richard D. Daniels, brother Richard Daniels, sister and brother-in-law Ruth and James Mangan…
Dr. William Terry Herbert Wright III, 70, died on September 6, 2013. Born February 13, 1943 in Newton, MA, he was the son of the late Bill & Ruth Wright, long time residents of Wellesley, MA. After graduating from Wellesley High School in 1961, he earned his BS in Geology from Middlebury College 65. His…
Roger Bloomfield died peacefully of Multiple Systems Atrophy at his home in Contoocook, Friday, July 19, 2013. He worked at Lonesome Lake in 1962 & 1963. Roger Bennett Bloomfield was born on April 28, 1944, in Milford, Mass. to Rachel and Roger G. Bloomfield. He grew up in Wellesley, Mass. with his brothers Eric and…
Charles Richardson, of Jamaica Plain, age 60, passed away on May 4, 2013 after a 6-year battle with cancer. Long-time activist for economic and social justice and peace, Charley worked for decades in the labor movement – at UMass-Lowell Labor Extension Program, the United Steelworkers International Union and other unions nationally and internationally – and…
‘Tall Paul’ Scannell, 41 years old, of Arlington, died peacefully of sleep apnea on February 2, 2013. Paul was an Artist – a photographer, writer, animator, web designer, avid music fan and renowned humorist. Graduated U Mass Dartmouth, Hut Master at the Appalachian Mountain Club and had nearly completed his master’s degree in multimedia design…
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…