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Manuel Jesse Alvanas
Mar 26, 2007
Portsmouth, RI - Manuel Jesse Alvanas, 76, of 110 Jepson Lane, Portsmouth, RI, died Monday, March 26, 2007 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. He was the husband of Joan Ann Frazier Alvanas. Born in Newport, RI on March 20, 1931, he was the son of Mary Raposa Alvanas of Tiverton, RI, and the late Manuel J. Alvanas.Mr. Alvanas served in...
Axel C. Weiderman
Mar 26, 2007
Newport, RI - Axel C. Weiderman, Jr., 73, of 4 Ernest Street, Newport, RI, died Monday, March 26, 2007 at home with his family. He was the husband of the late Elizabeth Ann Walker Weiderman. Born in Gloucester, MA on November 21, 1933, he was the son of the late Axel C. and Gladys Walker Weiderman.Mr. Weiderman was a dockmaster...
Michael F. James
Mar 24, 2007
Newport, RI - Michael F. James, 55, of 10 Thurston Avenue, Newport, RI, died Saturday, March 24, 2007, at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI. He was the husband of Deborah DeRensis James. Born in Newport, RI, on December 28, 1951, he was the son of the late Willard and Dorothy Murphy James.Mr. James was born and raised in Newport, RI,...
Larry David Jones
Mar 22, 2007
Middletown, RI - Larry David Jones, 52, of 969 West Main Road, Middletown, RI, died on Thursday, March 22, 2007, at home. He was the husband of Lynda Jones. Born in Henderson, TX on October 29, 1955, he was the son of John Paul and Dorothy Spencer Jones of Texarkana, Texas.Larry moved often as a child through North Texas and...
Arnold Dunbar Chaplin
Mar 22, 2007
Arnold Dunbar Chaplin Portsmouth, RI - Arnold Dunbar Chaplin, 86, of 7 Debra Drive, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of Middletown, RI, died Thursday, March 22, 2007 at home. He was the husband of the late Alice Terpening Chaplin. Born in Providence, RI on March 29, 1920, he was the son of the late Arthur Wilfred and Florence Luther Chaplin.Mr. Chaplin served...
Clara Slaiding
Mar 20, 2007
Newport, RI - Clara Terry Slaiding, 86, of Harrison Avenue, Newport, RI, formerly of Portsmouth, died Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at Village House Nursing Home, Newport, RI. Born in California, on April 20, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Clara Sousa Terry. Clara was an inspector for many years for Speidel in Providence. She was a...
Henry J. Olaynack
Mar 19, 2007
Middletown, RI - Henry Joseph Olaynack, 85, of 24 Kay Boulevard, Middletown, RI, formerly of 33 Bliss Road, Newport, died Monday, March 19, 2007 at home. He was the husband of Mary Rieker Olaynack. Born in Newport, RI on September 14, 1921, he was the son of the late Joseph W. and Lottie Gorski Olaynack.Mr. Olaynack was a 1941 graduate...
Mildred Friend
Mar 19, 2007
Portsmouth, RI ? Mildred Millie Friend, 86, of Portsmouth, RI, died March 19 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Taylors, SC. Mrs. Friend was visiting for the winter when cancer was discovered and died at home, lovingly tended by Jerilyn and Kirk Alford, who were soon joined by Mrs. Friend?s son Bob. Born in Portsmouth, RI on...
Jose Antonio Marrero
Mar 18, 2007
Jose Antonio Marrero Newport, RI - Jose Antonio Marrero, 84, of 87 Girard Avenue Apt. 217, Newport, RI, formerly of Kissimmee, FL and Providence, RI, died Sunday, March 18, 2007 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. He was the husband of the late Mercedes Marrero. Born in Puerto Rico, on March 30, 1922, he was the son of the late Frederico...
Julia A. Blankenship
Mar 16, 2007
Middletown, RI - Julia A. Konitsky Blankenship, 79, of Rosa Road, Middletown, RI, died Friday, March 16, 2007 at the Grand Islander Health Care Center in Middletown where she resided for the past 5 years and was known for her blue eyes and beautiful smile. She was the wife of the late Wiley T. Blankenship, Jr. to whom she was...
Deborah Ann Silvia
Mar 15, 2007
Portsmouth, RI - Deborah Ann Silvia, 46, of 132 Viking Drive, Portsmouth, RI, died Thursday, March 15, 2007 at Women Infants Hospital, Providence, RI. Born in Santa Maria, CA on May 14, 1960, she was the daughter of Beatrice Silveira Silvia of Newport and the late Henry Silvia.Debbie worked on the Navy Base for 17 years, retiring in 2007. While...
Jon Watson Vashon
Mar 15, 2007
Portsmouth, RI - Jon Watson Vashon, 51, of 1 Bourbon Street, Portsmouth, RI, died Tuesday, March 13, 2007, at St. Annes Hospital, Fall River, MA. He was the husband of Janice Diane Tedders Vashon. Born in Newport, RI on July 15, 1955, he was the son of the late Erlon Harry and Norma Watson Vashon.Mr. Vashon worked in security at...
Gordon Johnstone Sweeney
Mar 12, 2007
Gordon Johnstone SweeneyGordon Johnstone Sweeney, 80, of 3 Watson Street, Newport, died Monday, March 12, 2007.He was the husband of Ellen F. Quigley Sweeney of Newport, RI.Born in Newport, RI, he was the son of the late Ivan F. Sweeney and Margaret M. Rouxell Sweeney. Mr. Sweeney was employed by the former Newport Electric Company for forty-five years and retired...
Selma Auerbach
Mar 10, 2007
Portsmouth, RI - Selma Brod Auerbach, 86, of 51 Middle Road, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of Cranford, NJ and Chatham Township, NJ, died Saturday, March 10, 2007 at the Grand Islander Health Care Center. She was the wife of the late Milton Auerbach. Born in Manhatten, New York on June 15, 1920, she was the daughter of the late Louis and...
Mary A. Beausoleil
Mar 8, 2007
Portsmouth, RI - Mary A. Makara Beausoleil, 88, of 498 Park Avenue, Portsmouth, RI, died Thursday, March 8, 2007 at Grand Islander Health Care Center, Middletown, RI. She was the wife of the late Leo R. Beausoleil. Born in Fall River, MA on September 16, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Jan and Sophie Pzys Makara.Mrs. Beausoleil worked...
John Eyre
Mar 8, 2007
Newport, RI - John Michael Simon William Eyre, 71, of 19 Chapel Street, Newport, RI, died Thursday, March 8, 2007 at Heatherwood Nursing and Subacute Center, Newport, RI. Born in London, England, on May 10, 1935, he was the son of the late Edward and the Hon. Pelline Acton Eyre.Mr. Eyre grew up in New York and Newport. He graduated...
Joan Dickinson
Mar 7, 2007
Portsmouth, RI ? Joan McCoomb Dickinson, 79, of 512 Boyds Lane, Portsmouth, RI, died on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, MA. She was the wife of the late Daniel J. Dickinson, to whom she was married for 54 years. Born in Fall River, MA, on December 4, 1927, she was the daughter of the late...
William Anthony
Mar 6, 2007
Middletown, RI - William C. Anthony, 86, of 106 Wyatt Road, Middletown, RI, died Tuesday, March 6, 2007 peacefully at home. He was the husband of the late Edna Louise Linley Anthony. Born in Newport, RI on September 1, 1920, he was the son of the late Joseph Morton and Frances Greene Anthony.Mr. Anthony was a descendent of Nathaniel Greene...
Francis H. Lapointe
Mar 4, 2007
Middletown, RI - Francis H. ?Frank? LaPointe, 75, of 16 Roy Avenue, Middletown, RI, died Sunday, March 4, 2007 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. He was the husband of Elizabeth ?Betty? Walsh LaPointe. Mr. and Mrs. LaPointe just celebrated their 53rd Wedding Anniversary last Thursday and renewed their vows. Born in Fall River, MA on Aug. 20, 1931, he was...
Marcus Perry
Mar 2, 2007
Newport, RI - Marcus Perry, of 4 Farewell Street, Newport, RI, died Friday, March 2, 2007 at Women Infants Hospital, Providence, RI. Born in Providence, RI on February 27, 2007, he was the son of Marcus Cornelius Reckford and Tylee Perry. Besides his parents, he is survived by his brothers Kyene Gallagher of Newport, RI, David Drew of Woonsocket, RI,...
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