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Eugenia Gormly
Feb 20, 2020
Eugenia Jenny Gormly, 99, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Eugenia was born in Providence, RI, to Biagio Del Nigro and Prizziosa Mancini and is the wife of the late Henry Gormly, Jr. Throughout her life, Jenny enjoyed spending lots of time with her family, especially at family gatherings, parties, and...
Manuel L. Escobar
Feb 18, 2020
Manuel L. Escobar of Portsmouth, RI died on Tuesday, February 18, peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Born in Faial of the Azores, on July 3, 1943, he was the son of the late Francisco P. and Ana (Garcia) Escobar. He was the husband of Frances S. (Perry) Escobar.In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sons...
Elizabeth Ann Murphy
Feb 18, 2020
Elizabeth Ann Murphy, 79, passed away on Tuesday, February 18, 2020, at Newport Hospital, with her family by her side. Elizabeth was born October 26, 1940, in Newport, RI to the Late James R. and the late Dorothy (Hayes) Sullivan She was a graduate of Rogers High School and Newport School of Nursing. Betty worked for several years as a...
Ann Marie Leavitt
Feb 17, 2020
Ann Marie (Markowski) Leavitt passed away peacefully at home on February 17, 2020, surrounded by her loving family after a nearly six year courageous and valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Ann was born on October 30, 1946 to Henry and Florence Markowski of Enfield, CT. Her entire life was devoted to homemaking and caring for her family. She enjoyed long...
John Christopher Cabral
Feb 15, 2020
John C. Cabral, 70, of Portsmouth, passed away on February 15, 2020, in Stoughton, MA John was born on June 30, 1949, in Fall River, MA, to the late John J. Cabral and the late Lillian (Luciano) Cabral. John was the husband of Yun Min (Yi) Cabral of Portsmouth. John proudly served in the US Army in Vietnam in the...
Christina Jean Vars
Feb 14, 2020
Christina Jean Vars, 70, of Middletown, Rhode Island, passed away on February 14, 2020, at Rhode Island Hospital. Christina was born on October 22, 1949, in Newport, RI, to the late Christina A. (DiMatteo) Laurin. She was the wife of Kevin Vars. She worked for 36 years at Naval Station Newport, retiring as the Property Transportation Officer, earning the Meritorious...
Louis Peter Mureddu
Feb 11, 2020
Louis Mureddu, age 86, of Newport, Rhode Island, passed away peacefully on February 11, 2020. Born in Newport, he was the son of the late Mary Castellano and Anthony Mureddu and husband of Barbara Monticone Mureddu with whom he had been married for close to 60 years. Louis was a graduate of De La Salle Academy in Newport and began...
William Herman Clarke
Feb 11, 2020
William H. Bill Clarke, BMCS, USN (Ret.), 95, of Middletown, RI, passed away on February 11, 2020, at Blenheim in Middletown. Bill was born on June 11, 1924, in Marigold, CA, to the late William H. Clarke and Nadine May (Fehr) Clarke. He was the husband of the late Catherine Bessie Clarke (Cathy). Bill proudly served in the US Navy...
Leonard Mark
Feb 10, 2020
Leonard Mark, 86, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on February 10, 2020, at St. Annes Hospital in Fall River, MA. Leonard was born October 20, 1933, in Simpson, PA to John Mark and Victoria (Werwinski) Mark. Leonard was married to the love of his life, Bonnie for 63 years. Leonard graduated from Fell Township High School in 1951. After...
Ann E. Calcutt
Feb 9, 2020
Ann E. Calcutt, age 84, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on February 9, 2020. Ann was born in Jamestown, RI to Louis Paul and Mary Agnes (Lathan) Paul. A Portsmouth resident since the early 1970s, she worked at Raytheon for nearly 30 years. She also volunteered at Head Start through the Grandparent Program and for the RI Blood Center....
Mickey Botelho
Feb 8, 2020
Ora Mae Mickey Botelho, 83, of Middletown, passed away on February 8, 2020. She was the wife of the late Louis E. Botelho. Born in Worcester, MA she was the daughter of the late Albert and Edna (Nichols) Joubert. After growing up with her cousins Bill and Jerry Mohr and their children, Mickey met the love of her life Louis,...
Linda Anne Marvelle
Feb 8, 2020
Linda A Marvelle, 77, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on February 8, 2020, at Newport Hospital in Newport after a years long battle with cancer.Born in Newport on August 4, 1942, she was the daughter of James Marvelle and Virginia (Veasey) Marvelle. She enjoyed her upbringing off Broadway and attended school at Rogers High SchoolLinda worked for Newport Electric...
Caesar A Spero
Feb 6, 2020
Caesar A. Spero, Jr., Chuck, 98, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 6, 2020.A lifelong resident of Aquidneck Island, Chuck was born in Newport on October 3, 1921, the son of Caesar A. Spero and Mary Antoinette Radice Spero. Chuck was a loving son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and a true patriot....
Andrew Elwood Ford
Feb 3, 2020
Andrew E. Ford, age 73, of Jamestown, Rhode Island, passed away on February 3, 2020. Andy was born in Lancaster County, SC to Norbert Ford and Ludlow (Boyd) Ford and grew up in Far Hills, NJ on the Hill Hollow Farm. He attended Far Hills Country Day and Tabor Academy in his youth where he excelled at soccer, winning 3...
Marianne Maynard Needham
Feb 2, 2020
Marianne Maynard Needham, 82, of Middletown, passed away on Sunday, February 2, 2020 in the John Clarke Nursing Center. She was the wife of Brian Needham of Middletown. Born in Providence, she was the daughter of the late Edgar and Marion Gleason Maynard. Besides her husband she leaves her son John Gardiner of Bronx, New York and her grandson Mitchell...
Trudi Josefine Mackin
Feb 1, 2020
Wife, Mother, Sister, Grandmother, Ehefrau, Mutti, Schwester, Omi Her presence, we so miss Every encounter with Trudi involved grace, class and fun. Trudi Mackin, originally from Austria, who built our family foundation in America, sadly passed away on February 1, 2020. Trudi was bornin Salzburg, Austria. She was the daughter of the late Vincent Habeler and the late Josefine Habeler....
Mary Davison
Jan 30, 2020
Mary (Kurtis) Davison, 82, of Middletown passed away on Thursday, January 30, 2020, at the Grand Islander Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Middletown.She was the wife of the late James Alfred Davison.Born on July 28, 1937, in Putnam, Connecticut, she was the only child of the late Michael and Ceva (Talabac) Kurtis, immigrants from Yugoslavia. Mary grew up in Woonsocket,...
Margaret Mashaw
Jan 28, 2020
Margaret Maggie Mashaw, age 84, of Middletown, Rhode Island, passed away on Tuesday, January 28, 2020. Margaret was born in Fall River, MA to Charles Kent and Evelyn Ward. Margaret married Thomas Mashaw of Oswego, NY in April 1952. She loved sports, Flos, and everything about the beach. Margaret is survived by her children Thomas Mashaw, Jr. of Middletown, Lawrence...
Donna Rosalie Loomis
Jan 26, 2020
Donna Rosalie Loomis, 89, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on January 26, 2020, in Portsmouth. Donna was born on December 20, 1930, in Seattle, WA, to the late John Jenkins and the late Daytona Redmond. She earned her professional Music Education degree from the University of Oregon, as a Soprano, and went on to teach music, as well as...
Mary Clark
Jan 26, 2020
Born on August 8,1947, Mary was the wife of the late Barry Clark for 48 years, she was the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Easton Landers. She is survived by her daughters, Lisa OBrien and her husband, Jim of Middletown, Megan Tyson and her husband, Michael, of Huntersville, NC, and son David Clark and wife Kendra of Pine Valley, NJ....
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