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…
Art M. Prentiss III passed away on May 10, 2011 at the age of 75, in Springfield, VA. Beloved husband of Judith Nelson Prentiss; loving father of Kristen Prentiss Trapasso of Syrause, NY and Karen Prentiss Braun of Oakton, VA; brother of Noel and Peter Prentiss; grandfather of Krista and Ingrid Braun. ART was originaly…
Frank Kelliher, age 75, died Thursday March 17, 2011 in Cambridge Mass. His wake will be held at the Keefe Funeral Home, 2175 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, on Monday, March 21 from 4-8 pm. A funeral mass will be held at St. John the Evangelist church, 2254 Mass. Ave., Cambridge at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 22.…
Roger Allen Hart, 70, of Seal Rock Oregon died Sunday February 27, 2011 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. He worked at Greenleaf in 1957 & 1958. He was born Sept. 16, 1940, in Lynn, Mass., and attended Yale University and Tufts University, where he pursued his interests in geology and geophysics, as well as…
Catherine Hunt Ferree, 4/9/1946-2/7/2011, a long time resident of Charlotte VT, died at home almost three years after she was diagnosed with cancer. Cathy was born in Hartford, Conn. and grew up primarily in Pittsfield, Mass. She graduated from Kent School in Kent, Conn. in 1964, and was in the first group of girl students…
Doug George, 57, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at his home in Dover, while in the company of his loving and devoted family. Doug succumbed after a challenging three-year battle with cancer. Doug was born in Concord, the first child of Morton Minot George and Norma (Badger) George. He attended local schools, graduating from Concord…
Vincent A. Lamanna, age 83, died on Oct. 18, 2010, at the Maples Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Wrentham, MA surrounded by the comfort of his loving family. He was the son of the late Phillip and Rose (Sassone) Lamanna. Known as Vinnie to all his OH friends, he was born in Lynn on June…
Agustas Peterle, 93, died Friday, June 23,2010. Gus had returned to Stonington in 2008 from his longtime home in West Wardsboro, Vt. He was born Gustav Peterla Jr. on Nov. 28, 1916 in Amesbury, where he grew up and graduated high school. He worked in the CCC’s in Vermont and the Amesbury Hat Factory. During…
Polly McLane Lit, 92, died peacefully with family members at her side on April 30, 2010 at RiverMead Retirement Community in Peterborough, NH. Polly was born Mary Andrews Smith in Braintree, MA on October 25, 1917, the daughter of Ralph and Margaret Smith. She graduated from Thayer Academy in 1934 and Phi Beta Kappa from…
Dr. Ricardo Presnell, 51, died in a Utah avalanche on Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010. Ricardo’s loving wife of 21 years, Caroline Kroko, brother Craig, and his family of friends from around the world know that he was living life big and doing what he loved. Ricardo was a man who brought people together: a man…
Edward ‘Moose’ Damp was born July 21, 1921, in Pittsburgh, PA, and passed away on March 3, 2009 in Sarasota, FL. The second son of Albert and Elizabeth (O’Grady) Damp, he had two sisters and two brothers. Ed graduated from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, PA in 1939 and soon after set off on adventure…
Alan Rimm-Kaufman, died from leukemia on Saturday July 18, 2009 at age 41. He is survived by his wife, and two children. Alan worked for the AMC for 4 years, at Pinkham, Galehead, Camp Dodge and Trail Crew. Alan was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Essie and Norman Kaufman. After growing up in…