Katherine Vanderwerken French
Dec 17, 2015
Katherine VanDerWerken Frenchpassed away peacefully on Thursday, December 17, 2015 at age 85 in Hanover, New Hampshire. She was the beloved wife of the late Roger French and the devoted mother of three children, Margaret Bartow, Stewart French and Elizabeth Fribush; and three grandchildren, Jesse French, Jenny French, and Justin Fribush. Her wide-ranging interests included ancient Greece and Rome,...
Hershner Cross
Dec 15, 2015
Hershner Crossdied peacefully at Kendal-at-Hanover in Hanover, NH, two months short of his 100th birthday. He is survived by his second wife, Jacqueline Bowers Cross, of Kendal; three daughters, Linda Cross More of Cary NC, Midge Cross (Scott Johnston) of Mazama WA, and N. Nora Cross of Wenatchee, WA; grandchildren Christopher G. Cross (Pauline) of New York City, Juliet...
Betty Brown
Dec 12, 2015
Betty Browndied peacefully on Saturday morning at Valley Terrace in Wilder, VT. She was 92. Betty was born in Atalissa, Iowa on June 18, 1923 to Charles and Nelle Metzinger Overman. She had two older sisters, Bonita and Janice, and an older brother Robert. When Betty was two months old, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan and later to...
Jean Anderegg Meck
Dec 12, 2015
Jean Anderegg Meckof Hanover, New Hampshire and Prouts Neck, Maine died peacefully in her New Hampshire home on December 12, 2015. She was 103. Jean was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1912 to Edith Williams and Gustavus Anderegg, a scientist with AT&T Bell Laboratories. She was married to John F. Meck, Dartmouth College Vice President and Chairman...
Sarah Baldwin
Dec 4, 2015
Sarah Baldwin55, died Friday, December 4, 2015 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center surrounded by her family. She was born in Princeton, NJ on March 24, 1960, a daughter of David Allen Baldwin and Marilyn Austin-Nelson. She worked as a clerk at the Hanover Co-op Grocery Store where she greatly enjoyed interacting with the customers and her fellow workers. She was...
John Arthur Rassias
Dec 2, 2015
John Arthur RassiasDartmouth's William R. Kenan Professor of French and Italian, Emeritus, and creator of the Rassias Method of teaching languages, died December 2nd at his home in Norwich, VT. He was 90. He will be remembered for his internationally renowned teaching method"€"which includes rapid-fire drills, immersion in culture, and a healthy dose of theater"€"a unique style that quickly...
Ruth May (Emerson) Bacon
Nov 24, 2015
Ruth May (Emerson) Bacon86, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at the Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, NH. Ruth was born October 30, 1929 in Piermont, NH to Frank O. and Edith E. (Blanchard) Emerson, the second born of 13 children. Leaving home at 14 years old, Ruth worked for Carlton and Beulah Gray, babysitting their four children, helping...
Joan Allbright Ashley
Nov 22, 2015
Joan Allbright Ashleydied Sunday evening, November 22nd, at her home, Kendal at Hanover. The widow of James Wheeler Ashley, she was born on August 22, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of John and Mary (Gendell) Allbright. Joan attended the University of Chicago, Vassar College and Roosevelt University. After the death of her husband, she returned to finish her...
Sam Fitzgerald Smith
Nov 19, 2015
Sam Fitzgerald Smithdied unexpectedly of an apparent cardiac event on 19 November, 2015 at his apartment in Cornish, NH. He was born July 6, 1959 at the US Army Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, the son of 1/Lt. Roger P. and Rena J. Smith. In 1960 the family moved to Hanover, NH, his permanent home. He was a graduate...
Agnar Pytte
Nov 6, 2015
Agnar Pyttedied peacefully on the morning of November 6th, 2015, at the age of 82, in the presence of his wife of sixty years, Anah. He is also survived by his three children, Alyson, Anthony and Anders, and his brothers Erling and Odvar. Ag was born in Kongsberg, Norway, on December 23, 1932, the son of Ole and Edith...
Roberta Ruth Macdonnell
Oct 21, 2015
Roberta Ruth MacDonnell92, died on Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at Valley Terrace in Norwich, Vermont where she had been living since 2012. She was born in Chelsea, Mass. on December 16, 1922, the daughter of Robert and Ruth (Coyne) MacDonald. Roberta attended school in Boston and worked for the Danish Consul in Washington, D.C. during World War II while...
Theodore Richards Conant
Oct 14, 2015
Theodore Richards Conantthe documentary filmmaker and technology consultant, died on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, at home in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was 89 years old. Mr. Conant developed an early in interest in radio and was an avid ham radio operator as a teenager. While still a student at the Putney School in Vermont, he made his first short...
Reverend Norman A. Koop
Oct 7, 2015
Reverend Norman A. Koop69, of Woodstock, VT was called to be with the Lord on October 7, 2015. He was born in Philadelphia, April 8, 1946, the son of C. Everett and Elizabeth (Flanagan) Koop. Norman Koop attended The Stony Brook School, Eastern College, Eastern Baptist Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary where he received the degrees of Master of...
Carl O. Larson, Jr.
Oct 2, 2015
Carl O. Larson, Jr.81, died on October 2, 2015. He was born March 17, 1934 in Lynn, Massachusetts to Carl Oscar and Esther Nygren Larson and grew up in Swampscott, MA. Carl graduated from Yale University in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, followed by a master's degree in mechanical engineering from University of Connecticut in 1962....
Pauline Elizabeth Gilman Nesmith
Sep 27, 2015
Pauline Elizabeth Gilman Nesmith86, of Port Orange, FL, passed away peacefully in her sleep at home on Sunday, September 27, 2015. She was born and raised in Lebanon, NH. She is predeceased by her loving husband of 36 years, Thurber Nesmith of Alabama. She was also predeceased by her parents, Earl and Ella Gilman, and three brothers, Ernest, Maurice,...
Marilyn (Lindall) Moore
Sep 21, 2015
Marilyn (Lindall) Moore86, was called Home on Monday, September 21, 2015. She passed peacefully after a long hard-fought battle with Alzheimer's Disease, at Hanover Terrace Healthcare in Hanover, NH where she had resided for the past 5½ years. She was born on March 25, 1929, to Victor S. and Hilma J. (Herneaho) Lindall in Fitzwilliam, NH. Marilyn graduated from...
Patricia A. Davis
Sep 19, 2015
Patricia A. Davis89, of Grantham, NH and formerly of Quakertown, PA, beloved wife of Richard A. Davis, passed away Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the Kendal nursing facility in Hanover, NH. Born September 11, 1926, Pat spent most of her life in Quakertown. She was a graduate of Quakertown High School, Class of 1944, and of Wilson College, Class...
Joanne Booth Smith
Sep 12, 2015
Joanne Booth Smithdied peacefully on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at her home in Hanover with her daughters at her side. She was born on June 19, 1918 in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Henry and Georgy Landsborough Booth. Her great, grandfather General William Booth, founded the Salvation Army in 1865 to aid the poor in the slums of London,...
Beatrice T. Officer (Trix)
Sep 5, 2015
Beatrice T. Officer (Trix)87, died peacefully on Saturday, September 5, 2015 at Valley Terrace in Wilder, VT. She was born in East Orange, NJ, on October 31, 1927 to Beatrice and Pierre Allegaert. She married her husband Chuck in 1951 and they raised 8 children together while living in Falmouth, MA, Wellington, NZ, Houston, TX, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ and Hanover,...
Thomas Alan Leonard
Aug 27, 2015
Thomas Alan Leonardpassed away peacefully, early on August 27th after being in a coma due to a head injury. He was born on July 22, 1947 in Newport, VT. Tom attended Goddard College and at different times in his life lived in London, New York City, Palm Beach and for the past 18 years on Pleasant Street in Hanover,...
