Richard Frances Pressey
Jun 27, 2014
Richard Frances Pressey76, passed away on June 27th 2014 surrounded by his family at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. He was born May 25, 1938 in Hanover, NH, the son of Donald F. and Irene (Moffitt) Pressey. Richard's favorite pastimes included reading, telling jokes, socializing with family and friends, renting cabins on the lake for summer vacations, and spending...
Theda Johnson Brigham
Jun 16, 2014
Theda Johnson Brighamage 88, passed away quietly in her sleep after a brief illness, surrounded by her family. Theda was born in Rices Mills, Vermont, in 1925, the youngest child of Elgin and Glendolyn Johnson. Farm life was difficult even for a girl with two older brothers. Elementary school was spent in a one room school in Rices Mills....
Anne Verriest Badgley
Jun 12, 2014
Anne Verriest Badgley1925-2014, died at home in Norwich, VT, on June 12th after a brief illness. She was the widow of Peter C. Badgley. Anne was born in Hanover, NH, to parents Léon Verriest, professor of French literature at Dartmouth, and Florence Calder Verriest, Smith College graduate and briefly, an instructor in Spanish. Anne grew up on School Street...
Dr. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Houthakker
Jun 7, 2014
Dr. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Houthakker91, Founder and President of the World Phenomenology Institute, died June 7, 2014, at her beloved farm in Pomfret, Vermont. She was born in Marianowo, Poland, into an aristocratic family of historical significance. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Houthakker, an internationally known philosopher, was a professor of continental phenomenology. In 1976, her independent spirit led her to found the...
Crawford L. ("Bud") Elder, Jr.
Jun 1, 2014
Crawford L. ("Bud") Elder, Jr.D '45, T '46 - died Sunday, June 1st, 2014, at his Woodlands home while holding the hand of his wife, Alberta. Bud was born June 8th, 1924, to Crawford L. and Harriet (Larson) Elder in Evanston, IL. He graduated from Evanston Township High School with a most interesting group of classmates. He proceeded to...
Lorna Frances Kirk
May 30, 2014
Lorna Frances Kirk82, passed away on May 30, 2014. She was born July 5, 1931 in Mornington Twp, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of James A and Eva J (Crawford) McKenzie. Lorna received her RN licence in Toronto, Canada in 1954. She then moved to New York to further her nursing studies. In 1956 Lorna was offered the head OR...
Jarrett (Nik) Harter Folley Jr.
May 29, 2014
Jarrett (Nik) Harter Folley Jr.passed away on May 29, 2014 surrounded by his three children. Born February 10, 1942, he was the son of Dr. Jarrett and Barbara (Smith) Folley. He graduated from Hanover High in 1959, went onto Wesleyan University and earned a law degree from Stanford University. He spent his career at 3M where he served as...
Jarrett (Nik) Folley Jr.
May 29, 2014
Jarrett (Nik) Folley Jr. died May 29, 2014. There will be a celebration of his life, open house at the Norwich Inn in Norwich, Vermont on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 from 1 – 4pm. Arrangements are under the direction of the Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH.
Dr. Ralph C. Nichols, Phd
May 21, 2014
Dr. Ralph C. Nichols, PhD63 years old, of Hanover, NH, died peacefully on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, with his daughter and wife at his side. Only a month and a half before his passing, Ralph was diagnosed with Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma, an extremely rare cancer that affects about one person in every million...
Barbara C. Henderson
May 9, 2014
Barbara C. Henderson92, passed away peacefully at her home in Norwich on May 9, 2014. Barbara was born in Wethersfield, Vermont in 1921 the 6th child of Charles Horace Cass and Gladys Emerson Cass. Barbara married George Henderson in Newbury in 1978 and lived in Newbury until George's death in 1996. She was an avid bridge player belonging to...
Janet Mae Buskey
May 2, 2014
Janet Mae Buskey80, of Lake Waynoka, OH, died Friday, May 2, 2014 at Hospice of Cincinnati-East Inpatient Care Center in Cincinnati. She was born July 12, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of the late Alvin H. and Marguerite Moser Anderson. She was raised in Whitefish Bay, WI, and spent summers in Hiawatha, Kansas, on the Anderson family farm...
Paul T. Shannon
Mar 26, 2014
Paul T. Shannonage 81, of West Lebanon, NH, passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 after a brief illness. Son of the late Paul B. and Sarah (Meriam) Shannon, he was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932. Paul attended Northwestern University for three years and then the Illinois Institute of Technology where in graduated in 1956. Paul obtained his...
Laurel Sherman Letter
Mar 13, 2014
Laurel Sherman Letterdied Thursday, March 13, 2014, in the presence of her husband, Sidney, and the kind, capable care staff of the Wheelock Terrace retirement facility in Hanover, where she and her husband had resided since December of 2012. She was born on August 24, 1932, to Verna and Merton Sherman of Westvale, New York, a suburb of Syracuse....
Robert H. "Bob" Gross
Mar 2, 2014
Robert H. "Bob" Grosspassed away suddenly on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center while recovering from a recent surgery. He was born on March 6, 1945 in Brooklyn, N.Y. to Stan and Annette Gross. He was the eldest of two sons. His brother, Richard, currently resides in San Mateo, CA, with his wife, Lynn. Bob has...
Robert M. Williams
Feb 23, 2014
Robert M. Williams83, Korean Veteran, passed away Sunday, February 23, 2014 at his home in Norwich surrounded by his loving family. Mr. Williams graduated from Indiana University in 1952 where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi. Resident to the Upper Valley since 1979. Bob was a highly respected software salesman for the petroleum industry and retired from...
Richard Robert Sheldon Ii
Feb 18, 2014
Richard Robert Sheldon IIProfessor Emeritus of Russian at Dartmouth College, died peacefully surrounded by family at his home in Hanover on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 after living for many years with Parkinson's disease. He was 81. Dick was born in Kansas City, KS on July 12, 1932, the son of Helen Irene Zerzan and Richard Robert Sheldon. He grew...
Elizabeth "Bettina" Ferguson
Feb 9, 2014
Elizabeth "Bettina" Fergusonpassed away Sunday evening, February 9, 2014 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital due to complications from pneumonia. She was 87. Bettina was born and raised in Staten Island, NY where she was the third of five children for Dominic and Helen Rich. She graduated from Skidmore College in 1948 and married in 1950 and raised a family of...
Richard "Dick" Chauncey Hatch
Feb 7, 2014
Richard "Dick" Chauncey Hatchpassed away peacefully on Friday, February 7, 2014 surrounded by family and friends. Born August 1, 1925 in Fairlee, VT, the son of Chauncey Hatch and Elsie Porter, Dick grew up in Fairlee and Thetford, VT with his younger sister, Marjorie. He served in the US Army during World War II from 1943-1946 in the Military...
Richard Cushing Donovan
Jan 31, 2014
Richard Cushing Donovanaged 62, died peacefully at home on January 31, 2014 with his family and friends at his side. He was born in Boston, MA on January 12, 1952. A second-generation Irish-American, Richard spent his youth immersed in school, family, and all the richness that Boston had to offer. After four years in the Navy he settled in...
Dorothy Marie Peterson Humphrey
Jan 22, 2014
Dorothy Marie Peterson Humphrey86, of Guilford, VT ("Dot" to all who knew her) died on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 in Hanover, New Hampshire, after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer's Disease. The "older" (by minutes) of fraternal twin girls, she was born in West Hartford, CT on June 24, 1927. She attended elementary schools in Simsbury and Avon, CT and...
