Service for Helen Rose Wheeler
A graveside service will be held for Helen Rose Wheeler at 1 pm on Monday, August 18, in Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Bluffs. Ms. Wheeler died on February 25 in New Port Richey, Florida.
Barbara J. Flynn
Barbara J. Flynn died at Martha's Vineyard Hospital on July 30. She was 81. Born on January 1, 1933, in Boston, Barbara was raised in South Boston. As a young girl she loved the...
John P. Feltz
John P. Feltz Sr. died peacefully on August 1 at the home of his daughter Janice in West Tisbury, where he loved to vacation and made many friends. He was 90.John was born in...
Bernie Holzer dies
Bernie Holzer of West Tisbury, a Midwesterner who retired from a long oceangoing career as a merchant seaman to begin a second long career as a purser aboard Steamship Authority vessels, died Sunday in...
Robert W. Kelley
Bob received a Purple Heart in late December 1944. Quiet and undemonstrative, Bob never discussed his many days spent in the foxhole. However, he carried the remnants of the shrapnel and the memories of that battle and the suffering of his comrades throughout their ordeal weighed heavily on his mind for the remainder of his life.
James J. Spanfeller
James J. “Jim” Spanfeller Sr. of Edgartown and New York City died on Saturday, August 9, at his residence in Edgartown. He was 83.
He was the husband of Patricia A. (Durkin) Spanfeller and father...
Charles E. Layman
Charles E. Layman of Edgartown died on Tuesday, August 5, at Massachusetts General Hospital after a valiant battle with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 74.
A graduate of Boston College High School and Northeastern University,...
Helen Fontes Cerrone
Helen Fontes Cerrone died on July 30 at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida. She was 91. Helen was born on September 25, 1922, in Vineyard Haven to Michael Fontes Sr. and Theresa B....
Noel Vincent Coletti Jr.
Noel Vincent Coletti Jr. of Haverhill died on Saturday, August 9, following a valiant 10-year struggle with young onset Alzheimer’s disease. He was 61.
He was born in Quincy, the first born child out of...
Henry W. Hotchkiss
Henry Washington Hotchkiss of Fairhaven died in Fairhaven on August 2 after a long illness.
He was born in 1937 in Meshed, Iran, to his American parents, Henry Hotchkiss, a working geologist in the oilfields...
Natalie Hoxsie Perry
Natalie Hoxsie (Bailey) Perry of Barrington, R.I., died at her daughter’s home in Centerville on July 27, with family and loved ones by her side. She was 85.
Several years of declining health had taken...
Patricia J. Maseda
Patricia J. Maseda of Oak Bluffs died peacefully on Wednesday, July 30, at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 81.
Jane was born in Oak Bluffs on June 19, 1933, to Joseph and Ruth Combra. She...
Carl M. Widdiss
Carl Manning Widdiss of Aquinnah died on Sunday, July 27, at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He was 65.
Carl was the husband of Pam Glavin and step-father of Gimili Glavin and grandfather...
Dr. George Wallace Brown
Dr. George Wallace Brown, beloved family physician of Waynesville, North Carolina, for more than 55 years, who would stop at nothing to treat patients in the more rural sections of his mountain community, even...
Caroline K. Napolitano
Caroline K. (Giacchetto) Napolitano of Cambridge died on June 8 in Cambridge. She was 98.
Born on January 26, 1916, in Cambridge, Caroline was one of seven children of Charles and Maria Giacchetto. Caroline grew...
Paul F. Kerns Jr.
Paul F. Kerns Jr. of Apalachin, N.Y., died peacefully after a lengthy illness on Friday, July 18, surrounded by his family. He was 57 years old.
He was predeceased by his parents, Paul and Grace...
Michael Standard
Michael Standard, retired civil rights lawyer, died of pneumonia at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on July 2. He was 79.
A longtime summer resident of Chilmark, he often returned during hunting season to join his Vineyard...
Susan R. H. Parker
After graduation, Susan taught in a suburban public school in Pittsburgh. She found the reliance on corporal punishment, racism and attitudes toward children to be abhorrent, leaving her with the lasting conviction that children have unique learning needs and that all deserve to be treated with loving-kindness.
Harold Hill
Harold Hill died on Sunday, July 20, at his home in Oak Bluffs surrounded by his family after a battle with heart disease. He was 79.
Harold was born in Boston’s South End on April...
Memorial celebration for Stephen M. Laverty Sr.
A memorial celebration of the life of Stephen Michael Laverty Sr., who died August 22, 2013 in Provo, Utah, will be held this Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 6 pm. The celebration of Stephen’s life...