John C. Newman (Jason)
Mar 15, 2020
John C. Newman (Jason)passed away peacefully at his home in White River Junction, Vermont on March 15, 2020 at the age of 69. His wit, his erudition, his love of life and for his family, and his example as a devoted and compassionate Buddhist will be deeply missed. Jason was born in Dayton, Ohio and lived in many cities...
Sheryl Rubin Lerner
Mar 9, 2020
Sheryl Rubin Lernerdied at home in White River Junction, Vermont, at the age of 72 after a long illness. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Frank Rubin and Sarah (Govrin) Rubin. After moving to Orange, Connecticut, as a teenager, she graduated from Amity High School and in 1969 earned a bachelor's degree in education from...
Elizabeth Pughe King
Feb 25, 2020
Elizabeth Pughe Kingdied February 25, 2020 at Kendal in Hanover, New Hampshire at the age of 82. Liz was born in Utica, NY in 1937. For her first 3 grades she walked a mile each way to a one room red schoolhouse with the neighborhood children. She attended New Hartford High School, New Hartford, NY, and graduated with a...
Alan Williams Horton
Feb 24, 2020
Alan Williams Hortondied peacefully on Monday 24 February 2020 at the Kendal retirement community in Hanover NH. He was 98. He was born 31 July 1921 in Middletown, CT, a son of Douglas and Carol (Williams) Horton. After spending a year in France at the University of Strasbourg, he entered Princeton in 1939 and graduated in 1947. In the...
Seaver Peters
Feb 23, 2020
Seaver Petersdied peacefully on February 23, 2020 at age 87. Due to the limitation set forth by Dartmouth College for on-campus events, the Seaver Peters Celebration of Life will be postponed until a later date yet to be determined. As director of athletics at Dartmouth College from 1967-83, Seaver Peters was regarded as one of the nation's most highly...
Charles "Charlie" Eugene Garipay, Sr.
Jan 30, 2020
Charles "Charlie" Eugene Garipay, Sr.passed away unexpectedly January 30th, 2020 at home at the age of 84 with his loving wife Joan at his side. Charlie, as we all knew him, was born April 4th, 1935 in Hanover, New Hampshire where he currently resided, to L. Earle and Helene Garipay. Middle brother to Lewis and Danny (Thommy). He is...
Susan N. Harper
Jan 29, 2020
Susan N. Harper61, of Hanover, NH peacefully passed away at her home surrounded by her family on January 29, 2020, after a prolonged illness with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Born August 11, 1958 in Boston, MA to Dr. Robert S. Harper and Ursula (Wilhelm) Harper, Susan was the oldest of four children in a close-knit family raised in Worcester, MA. She...
Cynthia Love Ferneau
Jan 29, 2020
Cynthia Love Ferneaudied on January 29, 2020. She was born in Urbana, Ohio on June 28, 1934 to Margaret Thackery Love and J. Russell Love, the middle child of three daughters. She grew up on the Thackery family farm in the house where her grandfather and mother were born. Her life-long best friends were her sisters Sandy and Ann...
Eric Posmentier, Phd
Jan 23, 2020
Eric Posmentier, PhDdied at home on January 23, 2020 in West Lebanon, NH, at the age of 76. He was beloved by his wife, Xiahong Feng; his son Raoul Posmentier (Dartmouth '93); daughter Sonya Posmentier and son-in-law Jess Row; sister and brother-in-law Lynn and John Evansohn; his first wife and lifelong friend Loveleen Posmentier; friends, colleagues, and generations of...
Jean Ellen Kirby Broehl
Jan 14, 2020
Jean Ellen Kirby Broehldied January 14, 2020 at Hanover, New Hampshire. She was born September 26, 1924, in Chicago, Illinois, to Wayne and Agnes (Blanks) Kirby. Although she was very pretty, intelligent, and talented enough to play a "youth day" piano solo with the Chicago Symphony as a teenager, she was shy and lacked confidence. When a sophomore at...
Noreen Elizabeth Estes
Jan 11, 2020
Noreen Elizabeth Estesage 74, passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 11, 2020. She was born on December 1, 1945, to Harley and Ella Gallup. Noreen grew up in Orford, NH, and graduated from Orford High School. Noreen lived a life full of love and laughter. She married her high school sweetheart, Russell 'Rusty' Estes, on June 6, 1964. Shortly...
Jane Rita Stevens
Dec 27, 2019
Jane Rita Stevens88, died at Kendal in Hanover, NH on December 27, 2019. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Joseph C. Stevens MD, daughters Barbara Lucy Stevens, of Key West, FL, Mary Elizabeth Stevens, of Norwich, VT, and Susan Polly Stevens, also of Norwich, VT, and grandchildren Samuel Freel, Henry Freel, Joseph Sansone, Jordan Sansone, Isabella...
James A. Macdonald
Dec 18, 2019
James A. MacDonaldpassed away peacefully in New York City after a long battle with dementia. He was born in Hanover, NH on March 19, 1951, the son of Malcolm A. MacDonald and Elaine (Campbell) MacDonald. Jimmy attended Hanover High School in the class of 1970 and graduated from Keene State College with a B.A. in 1974. At Keene State...
Nancy Crawford Pierce
Dec 17, 2019
Nancy Crawford Piercepassed away on December 17, 2019 at 93 years old. Nancy lived in the Upper Valley since 1971 when she and her husband Reg became the innkeepers of Pierce's Inn in Etna, NH. Nancy spent her last years living at Wheelock Terrace where she was cared for by a wonderful team of people. Nancy was a practicing...
Robert (Bob) Riessen
Dec 13, 2019
Robert (Bob) Riessen67, passed away on December 13th, 2019, surrounded by his family. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Orval Henry and Jean Kleckner Riessen on December 30th, 1951, joining his siblings Jerry and Kathryn. Bob grew up in Evanston, Illinois. As a member of a tennis family, Bob was immersed in the sport from a young...
Dr. Harry Bird, Md
Dec 4, 2019
Dr. Harry Bird, MDwho formerly was president of The Hitchcock Clinic and was a longtime Hanover public official, died December 4, 2019, in his Kendal at Hanover home, seven months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. He was 86. Born in Wakefield, MA, on April 7, 1933, Harry H. Bird graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and from Tufts...
Helen Rose (Gentile) Demaggio
Nov 30, 2019
Helen Rose (Gentile) DeMaggiopassed away peacefully on November 30th, 2019 with family by her side at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care at DHMC. Her death ended a very long courageous struggle against cancer and the side effects of treatment. In spite of her medical issues she led a full and active life surrounded by loving...
William (Bill) Silverman
Nov 30, 2019
William (Bill) Silvermanpassed away peacefully on November 30th in his Hanover, NH home at age 95 years. He and his wife of 71 years, Edna, had been part of the Upper Valley community for 40 years. Edna preceded Bill in passing in 2017. William Arthur Silverman was born in Boston, MA November 8, 1924 to Nettie Rose and Isadore...
Louise Solmssen Griggs
Nov 26, 2019
Louise Solmssen Griggswas born on October 6, 1935, to Ruth and Rumsey McGregor, of New Rochelle, N.Y. She passed away after a long illness on November 26, 2019, in Hanover N.H. Louise attended Northfield Mt. Hermon School and Smith College. She received her B.A.from the University of New Hampshire. She moved to Kamuela, Hawaii in 1957 and raised 4...
Gerhard Postpischil
Nov 7, 2019
Gerhard Postpischil76, of Bradford, Vermont, passed away November 7, 2019, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1943 to Josefine (Koessl) Postpischil (later Spielberg) and Emmerich Postpischil (d. 1944). The family immigrated to New York City in 1957. Gerhard attended Theodore Roosevelt High School (Bronx, New York), Class of 1959....
