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Gaetano J. Migliori
Jan 20, 2012
Gaetano Guy Joseph Migliori of Pleasant Hill, California died peacefully on January 20, 2012. He was the husband of the late Mary Santa Migliori.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on August 4, 1916, he was the son of the late Corrandino and Rosalina DiCecchio Migilori.He was a US Coast Guard veteran and during WWII served with the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1943-44, and...
Gaetano J. Migliori
Jan 20, 2012
Gaetano "Guy" Joseph Migliori of Pleasant Hill, California died peacefully on January 20, 2012. He was the husband of the late Mary Santa Migliori.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on August 4, 1916, he was the son of the late Corrandino and Rosalina (DiCecchio) Migilori.He was a US Coast Guard veteran and during WWII served with the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1943-44, and...
Susan M. Wilson
Jan 20, 2012
Bristol, Rhode Island - Susan M. Wilson, 61 of Bristol, RI, passed away peacefully after a 16 year battle with cancer. She was the beloved wife of James E. Wilson and loving mother of Morgan E. Piebes and her husband Randy. Born in Newport, RI February 2, 1950, she was the daughter of the late Ernest and Helen Hussey Platt....
John F. Fagan
Jan 20, 2012
Newport, RI - John F. Jack Eppa Fagan, Jr., 85, a Native Newporter, died peacefully Friday, January 20, 2012 at home surrounded by his family.He was the loving husband of Marilyn Mink Minkler Fagan. Born in Newport, RI on February 18, 1926, he was the son of the late John Francis and Mary Asher Fagan. Jack was a 1944 graduate...
Mary A. Hanks
Jan 19, 2012
Portsmouth, RI - Mary A. Chase Hanks, 88, of East Main Road, Portsmouth, RI, died peacefully on Thursday, January 19, 2012. Born in Portsmouth, RI on April 29, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Frank J. and Mary (Korzeneski) Chase. Mary operated the Frank Chase Farm/ Stonewall Stand. She was a member of the Portsmouth Historical Society, the...
Edward F. Murphy
Jan 19, 2012
Edward F. Murphy, 91, of Bristol Ferry Road, Portsmouth, RI, died peacefully on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at Newport Hospital. Born in Fall River, MA on June 22, 1920, he was the son of the late Christopher P. and Frances L. McVey Murphy.Mr. Murphy was a World War II veteran of the US Navy serving in the Atlantic and Pacific...
Cynthia Ann Blake
Jan 18, 2012
Cynthia Ann Blake, 63, of Stafford Road, Tiverton, RI, passed away at home on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 with friends by her side.Born in Lowell, MA on April 15, 1948, she was the daughter of the late Arnold and Barbara Colby Blake.Cynthia grew up in Wilmington, MA and had been a longtime resident of Newport, RI. She was a lover...
Donnis Withers
Jan 16, 2012
Middletown, RI - Donnis Stiles Withers, 81, of Blenheim, Middletown, RI, died Monday, January 16, 2012 at Village House Nursing Home, Newport, RI surrounded by her loving family.She was the wife of the late Ret Captain Christopher Withers. Born in Algona, Iowa, on April 18, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Donald and Ruth Brown Stiles.Donnis was a...
H. Bruce Leslie
Jan 16, 2012
H. Bruce Leslie, age 94, of 1215 Main Road, Tiverton, RI, died on January 16, 2012, after a short illness. He was the husband of the late Ruth Nourse Patten Leslie. He was born in Danvers, MA, on April 13, 1917, to the late Thurman and Helen D. Smart Leslie of Danvers and Salem, MA. Bruce was a 1938 graduate...
Robert J. Mckenna
Jan 15, 2012
Robert J. McKenna died on Sunday, January 15, 2012, at home with his loving family. He leaves his wife of 55 years, Mary Jean Kelly McKenna.Bob was born at home in Providence, the son James C. and Margaret Gorman McKenna on February 23, 1931. He was educated at St. Patricks School, La Salle Academy, Brown University and the Catholic University...
Jeremiah Clarke Ii
Jan 13, 2012
Newport, RI - Jeremiah Clarke, II, 77, of 78 Church Street, Newport, RI, died Friday, January 13, 2012 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. Born in Brooklyn, NY on April 24, 1934, he was the son of the late Jeremiah and Virginia Beguelin Clarke.Mr. Clarke served in the United States Army. He was a school teacher in North Kingstown, Jamestown and...
Barbara A. Mahoney
Jan 11, 2012
Newport, RI - Barbara A. Arruda Mahoney, 68, of 14 D Coddington Manor, Newport, RI, died Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at the home of her son surrounded by her family.She was the wife of the late Joseph Mahoney. Born in Providence, RI on March 26, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Delvida F. Sylvia Robinson and Joseph Arruda.Barbara...
Emily Rose Pine
Jan 9, 2012
Emily Rose Pine, 93, of Sharon Court, Newport, RI, died Monday, January 9, 2012 at Newport Hospital.Born in Newport, RI on August 31, 1918, she was the daughter of the late John and Rose Medeiros Pine.Ms. Pine was a Fiscal Accountant for 36 years at the Naval War College in Newport before retiring in 1978. She was a 1935 graduate...
Mary E. Cahill
Jan 8, 2012
Newport, RI - Mary Evelyn Wells Cahill, 90, of 31 B DeBlois Street, Newport, RI, passed away at home with her family and friends by her side on Sunday, January 8, 2012.A devoted mother, nana, great grandmother and great-great grandmother, she was also the wife of the late Joseph J. Cahill. Born in Boston, MA on September 15, 1921, she...
Helen Foster Cunha
Jan 7, 2012
Jamestown, RI- Helen Foster Cunha, In her 94thyear, of Jamestown, RI, died Saturday, January 7, 2012 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI after a brief illness. She was the wife of the late Manuel Cunha Jr.Born in Worcester, MA on June 26, 1918, she was the daughter of the late David and Edith Masterson Foster. Helen grew up in Providence and...
James J. Wells
Jan 7, 2012
James J. Wells left this world on January 7, 2012 at age 88. Mr. Wells was born on October 17, 1923 in Bristols Hope, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He was the only son of Annie Maria Wells and Walter Wells. On December 15, 1942, during World War II he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. His boot camp training was at Great...
Richard P. Jones
Jan 7, 2012
Middletown, RI - Richard Dick Jones, 90, of 600 Valley Road, Middletown, RI, died on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the John Clarke Nursing Home.Born in Port Dickinson, NY on April 9, 1921, he was the son of the late Frederick and Harriett Matson Jones. He is survived by his sister Carol Owen of Acworth, GA, and his children, Patricia...
Margaret A. Broker
Jan 7, 2012
Portsmouth, RI - Margaret A. Watkinson Broker, 86, of Portsmouth, RI, died peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Saturday, January 7, 2012.Born in Fall River, MA on February 13, 1925, she was the daughter of the late William A. and Catherine Tobin Watkinson.She is preceded in death by her long time, loving companion Ret. Deputy Chief John Mack...
Lucy Ann Job
Jan 5, 2012
CDR Lucy Ann Jane Job, NC USN Retired, Age 88, of Sea Meadow Drive, Portsmouth Rhode Island, died on January 5, 2012.She was the daughter of the late Nellie and William J. Job and was born in Schenectady, N.Y. on Dec 13, 1923. Her sister, CDR Florence K. Job, preceded her in death. She retired from active duty in 1975...
Catherine A. Lauder
Jan 5, 2012
Portsmouth, RI - Catherine A. Lauder of Black Point Lane, Portsmouth, RI, died Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI. She was the wife of the late Francis V. Lauder II.Born in Newport, RI, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Zulmira Morinho Escubar.Catherine grew up in Newport and worked at the Naval War College...
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