Florence ‘Kitten’ Ashbrook passed away on Sunday, December 14, 2003. She had been battling congestive heart failure and it finally got the best of her. Kitten was one of the first hutmen F. She and her husband, El Wacko (Bill Ashbrook), ran Zealand in the summer of 1942. Her brother, Stonewall diZerega worked at Lakes…
Greg Prentiss passed away November 22, 2003. Greg was living in Lynn, MA. Greg worked at Lakes in 57, 58 and 59. I knew Greg as a friend neighbor in Gorham, NH. He taught at Berlin High, and I can remember being a guest speaker in his class when I was working at Pinkham. Greg…
Nancy Locke passed away November 11, 2003. Originally from Newton Mass, she worked at Pinkham in the summer of 1949 and 1950. After graduating from Wheaton in 1954, she moved to California.
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…