Alfred Lubaugh Bernier diZerega III (Buddy) died at home on June 24, 2015. He was 88 years old. He was born at Rock Spring Farm on Loudoun Street in Leesburg Virginia on July 8 1926, the son of Alfred L.B. diZerega II of Aldie and Lucy Harrison diZerega of Leesburg. After graduation from Fishburne Military…
Bruce Borsum Blake, 80, passed away on Monday June 15, 2015 in Bar Harbor Maine. He was born on September 9, 1934 in Queens, New York, the son of Winchester and Elsa (Borsum) Blake. He was married to the former Margaret Stebbins of Schenectady for 55 years prior to her passing in 2013. Bruce grew…
Clare O’Connell, 51 of Newton, died June 1, 2015. She is survived by her husband Michael A. Collora of Newton, and two stepchildren, Rebecca Collora Buckman, New York City and Nicholas A. Collora of Brighton. Clare was one of seven children of Laurence and Frances O’Connell of Worcester who predeceased her. She is also survived…
Constance Emerson “Connie” Crooker, 68, author of Melanoma Mama and co-author of Doc Jackson’s Letters Home: A Combat Medic’s 1968 Letters from Vietnam, died Friday morning, April 10, 2015 at her home. Born July 23, 1946 in Portland, Maine, the daughter of the late Rev. Charles W. Crooker and Elizabeth (MacGregor) Crooker Bates. She received…
William Lowell Putnam, III (“Bill”) died December 20, 2014 in Flagstaff AZ at the age of 90. Putnam was a prominent alpinist, broadcaster, and, for 26 years, Sole Trustee of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ founded by his great uncle Percival Lowell. Bill Putnam was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on October 25, 1924, the…
Harry Adams, of Wichita KS was born on Jan. 19, 1932, son of Norman I. Adams II and Genevieve Sloan Adams . He died peacefully in the early morning of Dec. 18, 2014. Harry is survived by nieces, Pam Adams and Sarah Adams Hayden; nephews, Norman Adams IV, and Daniel Adams. At the time of…
Harry S. Stephenson, 100, of Cape Elizabeth, passed away at his home on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, surrounded by his family. Mr. Stephenson was born in Derby, Vt., on Nov. 8, 1913, the son of Joseph and Alice (Errington) Stephenson. His family moved to Gorham, N.H., when he was two. Harry worked for many summer’s…
Eleanor (Petie) Van Everen, 79, of Lafayette, CO died peacefully on October 20, 2014. Petie was born February 28 (1935) in Beverley, MA and raised with two older sisters (Ruthie and Elizabeth) by her wonderful parents Eleanor and Maurice Goodridge. She worked at the Appalachian Mountain Club in New Hampshire where she met the love…
Fred Preston died on Friday, Oct 3, 2014, at age 84 surrounded by the love of his children and his wife of 48 years. Fred was a selfless, deliberate, and generous father and husband as well as an avid outdoors-man, innovative educator and an accomplished conservationist. He passed peacefully on a crisp sunny “mountain day”…
Barbara (Polk) Washburn of Lexington, formerly of Cambridge and Belmont died Sept 25, 2014. Beloved wife of 66 years to the late H. Bradford Washburn Jr. Loving mother of Dorothy Dundas of Newton, Edward Washburn of Lexington and Elizabeth Cabot of Belmont. Also survived by 9 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Donations may be made…