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Beatrice Roberta Echola
Sep 3, 2006
Coventry, RI ? Beatrice ?Bebe? Roberta Clarke Echola, 83, of 450 Franklin Road, Coventry, RI, formerly of 172 Allston Avenue, Middletown, died Sunday, September 3, 2006, at home. She was the wife of the late Roderick Henry Echola. Born in Newport, RI, on March 29, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Isaac O. and Genevieve Murphy Clarke.Bebe was...
Johanna Zieniuk
Aug 30, 2006
Johanna Bialogrzywy Zieniuk Newport, RI ? Johanna Bialogrzywy Zieniuk, 90, of St. Clare Home, Newport, RI, formerly of Clark, NJ and Lady Lake, FL, died Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at St. Clare Home, Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late Benjamin K. Zieniuk. Born in Bayonne, NJ on April 24, 1916, she was the daughter of the late...
Gary Eckert
Aug 29, 2006
Gary Thomas Eckert, 53, of 28 Hilltop Avenue, Middletown, RI, died Tuesday, August 29, 2006, at home. Born in Bainbridge, MD, on January 10, 1953, he was the son of Gladys S. Yeager Eckert of Middletown, RI, and the late William E. Eckert. Mr. Eckert had worked as an independent service consultant for over 20 years. He was a Veteran...
Mary E Osborne
Aug 27, 2006
Mary E. Osborne, 82, of 34 Freeborn Street, Middletown, RI, died Sunday, August 27, 2006 at home in Middletown, RI. Born in Newport, RI on Dec. 5, 1923, she was married to Kendall S. Osborne for 63 years.Mrs. Osborne was an active volunteer with the Middletown Little League and Babe Ruth League Baseball. She was also a member of the...
Donald And Geraldine Cottle
Aug 25, 2006
Donald W. Cottle Geraldine T. McCarthy Cottle Portsmouth, RI - Donald W. Cottle Geraldine T. McCarthy Cottle, of 110 Robin Road, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of Baldwinsville, NY, and Syracuse, NY, died Friday, August 25, 2006, at home. Mr. Cottle was born in Plainfield, NJ on November 24, 1921, he was the son of the late Joseph H. and Mildred Swick...
Thomas Mcdonald
Aug 25, 2006
Thomas McDonald, 55, of 91 Cottage Ave, Portsmouth, died Friday, August 25, 2006 at St. Anne?s Hospital, Fall River, MA after a short illness. He was the husband of Rebecca Mudd McDonald.Born in Newport on May 14, 1951, he was the son of Margaret Murphy McDonald of Portsmouth and the late Thomas G. McDonald.Mr. McDonald just retired from NUWC after...
Florence Marie Girard
Aug 25, 2006
Tiverton, RI - Florence Marie Sherman Girard, 88, of 1215 Main Road, Tiverton, RI, formerly of 17 Brent Road, Manchester, CT, died Friday, August 25, 2006, surrounded by loving family. She was the wife of Vincent G. Girard and they would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on August 28th. Born in Brooklyn, NY, on July 15, 1918, she was...
Menona Ford Robinson
Aug 23, 2006
Middletown, RI - Menona Ford AndersonRobinson, passed away Wednesday, Augugst 23, 2006, at the John Clarke Nursing Centre with her family and friends constantly at her bedside. She resided for many years at 141 Third Street, Newport, RI. Born in Washington, DC on May 22, 1916, she was the oldest child of the late Nathaniel Jefferson Anderson and Cassie Grisby...
Emily B. Lopes
Aug 23, 2006
Portsmouth, RI - Emily Braga Lopes, 93, of Portsmouth, RI, died Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at Village House Nursing Home, Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late George A. Lopes. Born in Newport, RI, on December 9, 1912, she was the daughter of the late Manuel and Maria DeChaves Braga.Mrs. Lopes was a member of the Portsmouth Homemakers...
John Joseph Pettiglio
Aug 22, 2006
Newport, RI - John Joseph Pettiglio, 47, of 81 Garfield Street, Newport, RI, died Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at 2:30PM of lung cancer. Born in Haverhill, MA, on July 14, 1959, he was the son of the late John William Pettiglio and Joan Delores Fowler, the brother of Jeffrey William Pettiglio. John attended primary school in New Hampshire and graduated...
Alexandre Campos Da Costa
Aug 22, 2006
Middletown, RI - Alexandre Campos daCosta, 40, of 215 North Fenner Avenue, Middletown, RI, died Tuesday, August 22, 2006 at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI. He was the husband of Carla D. Panaggio. Born in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, on August 13, 1966, he was the son of Pierre and Merces Campos Costa.Prior to coming to the United States Alex...
Barbara Jane Lauder
Aug 21, 2006
Middletown, RI - Barbara J. Nickerson Lauder, 72, of 13 Wood Road, Middletown, RI, died Monday, August 21, 2006 at home surrounded by her family. She was the wife of Bernard Keith Lauder. Born in Boston, MA, on September 16, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Edwin and Margaret Owens Nickerson.Mrs. Lauder worked at the Newport Hospital and...
Jesse R. Bowers
Aug 21, 2006
Portsmouth, RI - Jesse R. Bowers, Sr., 88, of Aquidneck Place, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of 20 Memorial Boulevard, Newport, RI, died Monday, August 21, 2006. He was the husband of the late Mary L. Williams Bowers. Born in Jacksonville, FL on March 11, 1918, he was the son of the late Albren and Mary Louise Apaul Bowers Spence. Mr. Bowers...
Dorothy Lillian Parris
Aug 18, 2006
Newport, RI ? Lt Jg Dorothy Lillian Parris, USN, Ret, 90, of Newport, RI, died Friday, August 18, 2006 at home. Born in Newport, RI, on November 12, 1915, she was the daughter of the late Ralph C. and Effie Walker Parris.Dorothy served in the Nurses Corp in the Navy during WWII from 1940 to 1944 and was advanced for...
Patricia Madette Kusic
Aug 18, 2006
McKeesport, PA - Patricia Madette Blaine Kusic, 88, of 3006 Jenny Lind Street, McKeesport, PA, died Friday, August 18, 2006 at the home of her daughter in Portsmouth, RI. She was the wife of Samuel Joseph Kusic. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, on July 8, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Herbert Blaine and Claire Vollmer Blaine. Besides her...
Beverly A. Freitas
Aug 17, 2006
Portsmouth, RI - Beverly A. Freitas, 58, of 160 Cedar Avenue, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of Fall River, MA, died Thursday, August 17, 2006, at Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, MA after a short illness. Born in Fall River, MA, on July 20, 1948, she was the daughter of the late Alfred and Dorothy Heroux Braga. Bev worked at Clements Market...
Robert B. Gaines Sr
Aug 16, 2006
Newport, RI - Robert B. ?Bob? Gaines, Sr., of Bacheller Street, Newport, passed away in the early morning Wednesday, August 16th. He is survived by his devoted wife of 63 years Hazel B. Greene Gaines, daughter Cheryl Williamson and her husband Kenneth of Woonsocket, RI and sons Robert B. Gaines Jr. of Middletown, RI, Bruce W. and Brett S. Gaines...
Helen Donaldson Taft
Aug 16, 2006
Newport, RI - Helen Donaldson Short Taft, 89, of ?Beechbound? at 127 Harrison Avenue, Newport, RI, formerly of Longmeadow, MA, died Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late Richard Taft, whom she met and married in Newport, where they summered for most of their lives. Born in Calgary Alberta, Canada, on...
Ruth Virginia Kane
Aug 16, 2006
Portsmouth, RI - Ruth Virginia Kane, 86, of Belmont Drive, passed away at Newport Hospital after a brief illness on Wednesday, August 16, 2006. She was the wife of the late John Francis Kane. Born in Arlington, Massachusetts she was the daughter of the late Fred Caplin and Gladys Howard Caplin.She was a resident of Portsmouth for 60 years, graduated...
Stanley Walter Drewniak
Aug 14, 2006
Portsmouth, RI - Stanley Walter Drewniak, 69, of 84 Longmeadow Road, Portsmouth, RI, formerly of Fall River, MA, died Monday, August 14, 2006, surrounded by his family at his sisters home. He was the former husband of Georgene Drewniak of Fall River, MA. Born in Fall River, MA, on May 24, 1937, he was the son of the late Stanley...
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