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Mary Elizabeth Garcia
Dec 16, 2011
Newport, RI - Mary Elizabeth Kielbasa Garcia, 54, of 1 Bradford Ave, Newport, RI passed away peacefully on December 16, 2011. Mary was born in Newport, RI on January 18, 1957. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Stella Latosek Kielbasa. She is survived by her husband Alfred Garcia, daughter Stephanie Earp, and three brothers Rob, Jeff and...
George R. Hudson
Dec 15, 2011
Portsmouth, RI - George R. Hudson, 72, of 61 Martens Road, Portsmouth, RI, died Thursday, December 15, 2011 at home. No formal services will be held. His ashes will be scattered on Mount Washington, NH by family members.
Henry Austin Harpin
Dec 15, 2011
Henry Austin Epa Harpin, 88, of Newport RI, passed away Thursday December 15, 2011, surrounded by his family at his daughters Middletown home, on the evening before the 15th anniversary of the death of his beloved wife Jean.Born, May 30, 1923, he was the son of the late Mary Grady and A. Charles Harpin. He was preceded in death by...
Frederick A. Sisson
Dec 15, 2011
Born in Portsmouth, RI on December 11, 1928, he was the son of the late Lloyd A. and Della Phillips Sisson.Mr. Sisson attended schools in Portsmouth, Bristol and Newport. As a teenager, he worked summers at The Glen in Portsmouth. After serving 3 years in the US Army, he worked at the Grey Craig estate in Middletown, Vaucluse in Portsmouth...
Kristin Grace Dyer
Dec 14, 2011
Newport, RI - Kristin G. Krissy Bottomley Dyer, 28, of Third Street, Newport, RI, died Friday, December 14, 2011 at Rhode Island Hospital. She was an amazing wife to Thomas P. Dyer. Born in New Bedford, MA on Nov. 1, 1983, she was the daughter Susan Svirsky Bottomley of Newport and the late Stephen J. Bottomley.Krissy enjoyed baking for everyone,...
Concetta A. Ward
Dec 12, 2011
Middletown, RI - Concetta A. Providenti Ward, 89, of Middletown, RI, died Monday, December 12, 2011 at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.She was the wife of the late William E. Ward.Born in Warren, RI on September 27, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Michael and Crestina Gallucci Providenti.Mrs. Ward was a charter communicant of St. Barnabas Church since...
Peter Washburn
Dec 11, 2011
Little Compton, RI - Peter D. Washburn, 58, died Sunday, December 11, 2011 after a spirited battle with pancreatic cancer. Peter was the husband of Susan Bedard Washburn for 29 years, the son of Elizabeth Thompson and the late Edwin Washburn and the step-son of Carlene Washburn. Peter touched many lives though his active involvement in community organizations including the...
Daniel W. Marvelle
Dec 11, 2011
Daniel W Marvelle, 89, of Newport, RI, died Thursday, December 22, 2011. He was the husband of Janet Smith Marvelle to whom he was married for 68 years.Born in Newport on March 13, 1922, he was the son of Everett and Catherine Nyhan Marvelle. He attended Rogers High School. Mr. Marvelle served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
Evelyn Ann Maffei
Dec 11, 2011
Leominster, MA - Evelyn Cissy Ann Maffei, 64, of, Leominster, MA died Sunday, December 11, 2011 peacefully, surrounded by love ones after a long illness at Keystone Center, Leominster, MA. Born in Germany, on September 24, 1947, she was the daughter of the late William and Margaret Shellman Scheel.She graduated Rogers High School Newport RI in 1966 and Chandler School...
Caroline Greer Murray
Dec 10, 2011
Portsmouth, RI - Caroline Greer Murray, 95, died Saturday, December 10, at Aquidneck Place in Portsmouth, RI.Born in Wilmington, DE, she was a daughter of the late William Andrews and Elizabeth Wilson Murphey and the wife of the late Francis B. Murray.Mrs. Murray grew up and raised her family in Rockville Centre, NY, and moved to Portsmouth after her husband...
Caroline Greer Murray
Dec 10, 2011
Portsmouth, RI - Caroline Greer Murray, 95, died Saturday, December 10, at Aquidneck Place in Portsmouth, RI.Born in Wilmington, DE, she was a daughter of the late William Andrews and Elizabeth Wilson Murphey and the wife of the late Francis B. Murray.Mrs. Murray grew up and raised her family in Rockville Centre, NY, and moved to Portsmouth after her husband...
Cecelia Gloria Silva
Dec 9, 2011
Cecelia Gloria Savasta Silva, 84, of Portsmouth, RI, died Friday, December 9, 2011 at the Newport Hospital. She was the wife of Robert W. Silva of Portsmouth.Born in Providence, RI on April 22, 1927, she was the daughter of the late Domenic and Mary Monti Savasta.Mrs. Silva worked for the Portsmouth School Department for many years. She was a loving...
Olive Mary Fell
Dec 9, 2011
Olive Mary Fell, 91, of Admiralty Drive, Middletown, RI, formerly of Bliss Road, Newport, died Friday, December 9, 2011 at her daughters home in Narragansett, RI. She was the wife of the late John Henry Jack Fell.Born in Fairfield, Maine on December 5, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Louis and Rose Cyr Thibodeau.Olive was a dedicated mother...
Jeffrey A. Archer
Dec 9, 2011
PNCM Jeffrey A. Archer, USN, 55, of 403 Valley Road, Middletown, RI, died unexpectedly on Friday, December 9, 2011 at Newport Hospital. He was the husband of Barbara Moore Archer.Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on July 6, 1956, Jeff grew up in the Ft. Wayne, IN area and joined the US Navy in 1975. That same year he married Barbara...
Charles F. Mcgeown
Dec 8, 2011
Middletown, RI - Charles F. McGeown Jr. a man of great faith left his cherished JoAnn, who he started courting 61 years ago and continued throughout his life, finishing his journey to his heavenly Father on December 8, 2011.He died the same way he lived his life with dignity grace, held in the arms of JoAnn; within the exceptional care...
Marion E. Williams
Dec 7, 2011
Marion Bence Williams, 93, passed peacefully on December 7, 2011 at Newport Hospital, surrounded by her loving family. She was a lifelong resident of Aquidneck Island after having lived in Newport for many years, then Middletown, and for the past 27 years in Portsmouth.She was married to Henry E. Williams for over 70 years and recently moved to Sakonnet Bay...
Mary Paranzino
Dec 7, 2011
Middletown, RI - Mary L. Paranzino, of Middletown, RI and Pompano Beach, Fl, died Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at her home in Middletown, with her family by her side.Mrs. Paranzino was born on March 25, 1919, to the late Ada M. Pollock Radice and Joseph A. Radice.A member of Jesus Saviour Church she was a former state bowling champion and...
Louise O. Armstrong
Dec 5, 2011
Newport, RI - Louise O. Hatmaker Allen Armstrong, 94, died peacefully at home on December 5.She was born in Newport in 1917; her familys home was on Bateman Avenue in the Fifth War. Later, she resided for more than 30 years on Thurston Avenue and was a congregant of Emmanuel Church on Dearborn Street. Her home for the last four...
James Norman Mchenry
Dec 3, 2011
Portsmouth, RI - James Norman McHenry, 89, of McCorrie Lane, Portsmouth, RI, passed away at home surrounded by his loving family on December 3, 2011. The last words he heard on this earth were, I love you! from his granddaughter Jocelyn. James was born on February 5, 1922 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, and was the son of the late Mary...
Nancy Marie Harmon
Dec 3, 2011
Portsmouth, RI - Nancy Marie Parsonage Harmon, 72, of Portsmouth, RI, passed away on Saturday, December 3, 2011. She was born in Newport on February 4, 1939, to the late John Joseph Parsonage and Adele Oakley Parsonage.She was predeceased by her loving husband Robert John Harmon of fifty one years, her daughter Deborah Marie Harmon, RN, and her brother, John...
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