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Rebecca Joan Giroux
Oct 2, 2016
Rebecca Joan (Coolbeth) Giroux, 58, of Newport died Sunday, October 2, 2016.She was born on July 12, 1958, in Brattleboro, VT, the daughter of the late Francis and Joan (Campbell) Coolbeth.Rebecca was one of a kind!! She was full of laughs and giggles and she told the bear where to "you know what" in the woods! If she liked you...
Mary Ellen Condon
Oct 1, 2016
Tiverton - Beloved Wife, Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother, Mary Ellen (Stauffacher) Condon, 97, died peacefully on October 1, 2016, at Brookdale Sakonnet Bay in Tiverton, RI. She was born in Monroe, WI, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA in Art Education. She is survived by George, her loving and devoted husband of 75 years, and...
Ralph Nassa
Oct 1, 2016
Ralph Nassa, 90, of Newport, passed away suddenly at home on October 1, 2016. He spent the last 17 years happily married to Jeanne (Hennessey) Nassa. He was born on May 14, 1926 in Providence, RI to the late Antonio Isabella Nassa. He was one of 11 children of whom he leaves one sister, Anna Drumm of Cranston. He leaves...
Cora Lee Gibbs
Sep 29, 2016
Cora Lee Gibbs, age 92, of Tockwotton-on-the-Riverfront in East Providence, passed away peacefully in her sleep at Miriam Hospital in Providence early Thursday morning, the 29th of September 2016. Mrs. Gibbs was the 1991 recipient of the Governor's Arts Awards for her lifetime services to arts education in Rhode Island. She had served as Director of the Newport Art Museum,...
Donald "Don" Lowden
Sep 29, 2016
Donald "Don" Lowden of Middletown, RI passed away peacefully on September 29, 2016 at the age of 78. He was surrounded by his kids, grandkids, and brother through the end. Don was born on October 18, 1937 in Newport, RI as one of seven children to Marie Beaupre. His father was Earl Kenneth Lowden. He had a difficult childhood as...
Robert L. Barrows
Sep 28, 2016
Robert L. Barrows, 87, of Newport died Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at Village House Nursing Home of Newport, RI. He was the husband of Janice Marion (Sharples) Barrows.Born on February 6, 1929 in Portland, ME, he was the son of the late Guy M. and Eleanor (Currier) Barrows.Bob was a 1947 graduate of Rogers High School and worked at the...
Francis Thomas Best Jr
Sep 27, 2016
Francis Thomas Best, Jr., age 83, of Bristol, and formerly of Portsmouth, died Tuesday, September 27, 2016, at Newport Hospital. Mr. Best was born August 19, 1933, in Newport, RI, the son of the late Francis T. and the late Ruth M. Best. He was the husband for 56 years of Mary Anne (MacDonald) Best.Mr. Best graduated from Sacred Heart...
Dorothy R. "Mickey" Hausen
Sep 26, 2016
Dorothy R. "Mickey" Hausen, 95, formerly of Bristol Ferry Road, Portsmouth, passed away on Monday, September, 26, 2016 at the Grand Islander Health Care Center in Middletown.She is the wife of the late George S. Hausen who passed away in 1990.Born in Tiverton, RI on February 4, 1921, she is the daughter of the late Frank and Lida (Dubois) Silvia....
Earl S. Smith
Sep 25, 2016
Earl S. Smith, 70, of Newport passed away Sunday, September 25, 2016 at Heatherwood Nursing and Subacute Center of Newport with family by his side. He was the husband of the late Kathleen (Gregory) Smith. Mr. Smith was born in the Albany Memorial Hospital in Albany, NY, son of the late Grant and Audrey (Brooks) Smith and was raised in...
Brian J. Labonte
Sep 23, 2016
Brian J. LaBonte, 56, of Newport, died on Friday, September 23, 2016 at Heatherwood Nursing Center in Newport. Mr. LaBonte was born June 7, 1960 in Newport, RI, and was the son of the late Alphonso and Catherine (OConnor) LaBonte. Over the years, Brian worked with the James Maher Center and more recently with Looking Upwards, including jobs on the...
Mary A. Mathis
Sep 22, 2016
Mrs. Mary A. Mathis (nee Lisowski), of Middletown, RI, passed away on September 22, 2016 at the age of 61 after a courageous battle against cancer.Mary was born to parents Jerome and Helen Lisowski on August 16, 1955 in Blair, WI. She grew up as the second eldest of nine. She graduated from Milwaukee Area Technical College where upon she...
Edward G. Coderre
Sep 21, 2016
Edward G. Coderre, 84, of Portsmouth, RI, died on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at Silver Creek Manor in Bristol, RI. He was the husband of Wanda (Perkowski) Coderre. Born on January 2, 1932 in Pawtucket, RI, he was the son of the late Wilfred and Leah (Roy) Coderre.He enlisted into the Marine Corp shortly after graduating from Sacred Heart Academy....
Hermina "Minnie" E. (Lopes) Medeiros
Sep 20, 2016
Hermina "Minnie" E. (Lopes) Medeiros, 92, formerly of Balsam Avenue, Middletown, RI, passed away, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at the Village House Nursing Home in Newport.Born on December 29, 1923 in Sao Miguel, the Azores, she was the daughter of the late Agostinho B. and Maria (Medeiros) Lopes. She came to the United States in April of 1931 at the...
Maureen H. Scott
Sep 18, 2016
Maureen H. Scott formerly of North Carolina, San Francisco, Australia and Newport, passed away due to ongoing heart and lung complications on Sunday, September 18, 2016 at home in Portsmouth. She was the loving wife of 30 years to John Sneddon. Born in Greenville, NC, she was the daughter of the late Maurice and Della (Deal) Scott.Besides her husband Maureen...
Hisae Pascale
Sep 15, 2016
Hisae Pascale, 79, of Tiverton, RI, passed away on Thursday, September 15, 2016 at home with her family at her side.She was the much loved wife of the late John V. Pascale who passed away in May of this year.Born in Kumamoto, Japan on January 25, 1937, she is the daughter of the late Kyuma Inoue and Natsue Kamata Inoue.Mrs....
Mary P. "Pat" Mccarthy
Sep 12, 2016
Mary Patricia "Pat" McCarthy, 84, formerly of Warren Avenue, Middletown, passed away on Monday, September 12, 2016 at Newport Hospital. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of the late Thomas J. and Catherine A. (Fitzgerald) O'Connor. Pat was the wife of the late Robert J. McCarthy, LCDR, USN (Ret.). She was a graduate of Sacred Heart High School...
George M. Chaplin
Sep 12, 2016
George Manton Chaplin, 93, died September 12, 2016 at Newport Hospital.He was the husband of the late Dorothy C. (Harlow) Chaplin.Born on March 11, 1923 in Newport, RI, he was the son of the late Arthur W. and Florence (Luther) Chaplin.George served in the United States Army Airforce during World War II. He attended Providence College, Barrington College, Salve Regina...
Dene J. Perkins-Harvey
Sep 11, 2016
Dene J. Perkins-Harvey, 62, of Newport died Sunday, September 11, 2016 at Village House Nursing Home of Newport, RI. Mrs. Perkins-Harvey was born February 24, 1954 in Sacramento, CA. She is the daughter of the late Lloyd George and the late Irene Mable (Coghill) Perkins. She worked as a comptroller for The California Highway Patrol. She was an animal lover...
Anies (Wahba) Khalfayan
Sep 11, 2016
Anies Khalfayan, age 85, of Newport, died Sunday, September 11, 2016, in Providence, RI. Mrs. Khalfayan was born January 18, 1931 in El-Obeid,Sudan . She is the daughter of the late Saba and the late Nectar (Karamanoukian) Wahba. She was the wife of the late Albert Khalfayan.Mrs. Khalfayan had worked as a seamstress. She was a devout Catholic and was...
Pamela Bradford
Sep 10, 2016
Pamela Seabury Cottrell Bradford, 89, died Saturday, September 10, 2016 due to complications from skin cancer.She was the wife of the late Larned(Ned) G. Bradford, an editor -in-chief and Director of Little, Brown Co. book publishers, later a division of Time Inc. and then Time Warner. They worked together, first in Boston, and then in New York City. She also...
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