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.…