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Pauline M. Vars
Apr 13, 2002
Pauline Manchester Vars died in Newport Hospital, April 13, 2002. She was the wife of the late Neal F. Vars. Mrs. Vars lived at 50 Gould Street Newport, RI. Born in Tiverton, RI on Sept 15, 1922 she was the daughter of the late John and Irene Borden Manchester.Mrs. Vars worked at Raytheon for 15 years.She leaves 2 sons John...
Milford Ashworth
Apr 13, 2002
Milford V. Ashworth, 88, of 333 Green End Avenue, Middletown, formerly of 46 Foxboro Avenue, Portsmouth,, died Saturday, April 13, 2002 at Grand Islander Health Care Center Middletown, RI. He was the husband of the late Marion E.Straw Ashworth. Born in Milford, MA on Oct. 8, 1913, he was the son of the late John T. Ashworth and Edith Ashworth....
Margaret Patricia Pawlowski
Apr 12, 2002
Margaret ?Pat? Houghton Pawlowski, 73, of 24 Channing Street Newport, died Friday, April 12, 2002 at home. Born in Lynnhurst, NJ on Aug. 5, 1928, she was the daughter of the late John R Houghton and the late Margaret E Wolf Houghton. Mrs. Pawlowski was a Licensed Practical Nurse who had worked at the former Naval Hospital in Newport. She...
Irene A. Watts
Apr 12, 2002
- Irene ?Nanee? AmaralWatts, 78, of 100 Third Street Newport, died Friday, April 12, 2002 at the home of her daughter in Portsmouth. She was the wife of the late retired Newport Police Detective, Sgt. George W. Watts Jr. Born in Fall River, MA on Oct. 31, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Joao Amaral and the late...
Catherine Gloria Hogan
Apr 9, 2002
Catherine Gloria Hogan, 66, of 8 Beacon Terrace Middletown, died Friday, April 5, 2002 at Newport Hospital Newport, RI.She was the wife of Jerry S. Bowen. Born in Brooklyn, NY on February 9, 1936, she was a licensed practical nurse in the health care profession. She is survived by her son Jerry W. Bowen of Middletown, RI.There will be a...
Justin Lawrence Gill
Apr 8, 2002
Justin Gill, 76, of 1 Dawn Hill Bristol, died Monday, April 8, 2002 at Roger Williams Medical Center Providence, RI.He was the husband of the late Inez Gibbons Gill. Born in Stoughton, MA on April 11, 1925, he was the son of the late Alexander and Mary Maciejko Gill.Mr. Gill was a 1941 graduate of Stoughton High School, in Stoughton,...
Agnes C. Simonds
Apr 8, 2002
- Agnes C. ?Mickey? Moran Simonds, 77, of 3 Red Fox Lane, Flagler Beach, FL, formerly of Lindenhurst, NY, died Monday, April 8, 2002 at the home of her daughter.She was the wife of the late Joseph R Simonds. Born in Troy, NY on September 21, 1924, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary Sinnott Moran.Mrs. Simonds...
Robert Marc Simard
Apr 7, 2002
Robert Marc Simard, 34, of 135 Golden Rod Drive Middletown, died Saturday, April 7, 2002 at St. Annes Hospital in Fall River, MA. He was the husband of Denise Raposa Simard. Born in Fall River, MA on November 24, 1967, he was the son of Robert Simard of Tiverton and the late Jacqueline Poulin Simard. Mr. Simard was a Superintendent...
George Mcnemer Schwartze
Apr 6, 2002
George Schwartze, 84, of 97 Belmont Drive Portsmouth, died Saturday, April 6, 2002 at Steere House Nursing Home Providence, RI. He was the husband of the late Aloise Jane Bartlett Schwartze. Born in Washington, DC on September 26, 1917, he was the son of the late Dr. Erich Schwartze, MD and the late Annie Andrews Schwartze. Mr. Schwartze graduated from...
Edith Albro Malone
Apr 5, 2002
Edith Albro Titcomb Malone, 76, of 8 Poplar St. Newport, for 63 years, died Friday, April 5, 2002 at Village House Newport, RI. Born in Newport, RI on January 1, 1926, she was the daughter of Alexander Titcomb and Esther Carlisle Titcomb. Mrs. Malone was an Office Cashier with J.T. O?Connell for 10 years, retiring in 1988. Previously she was...
Thomas F. Devine
Apr 2, 2002
Thomas F. Devine, 85, of 4 Beacon Terrace Middletown, died Tuesday, April 2, 2002 at Village House Newport, RI.He was the husband of Mary B. Dwyer Devine. Born in Fall River, MA on February 25, 1917, he was the son of the late Louis and Elizabeth Doran Devine.Mr. Devine was a Computer Systems Analyst with the Federal Civil Service on...
Robert Vaillancourt
Apr 2, 2002
Robert Lawrence Vaillancourt, 85, of 249 Fischer Circle Portsmouth, died Tuesday, April 2, 2002 at home surrounded by his family.He was the husband of Marguerite Pages Vaillancourt. Born in Highland Park, MI on February 13, 1917, he was the son of the late Edward and Marion Hatch Vaillancourt.Mr. Vaillancourt was educated in Detroit, Mich, and studied engineering at Dearborn and...
Frank Trudell
Apr 1, 2002
Frank J. Trudell, Jr., 73, of 59 Everett Street Middletown, died Monday, April 1, 2002 at home.He was the husband of Anna Cruz Trudell. Born in Roxbury, MA on October 22, 1928, he was the son of the late Frank and Grace Wentworth Trudell Sr.Mr. Trudell was a Rhode Island National Guard for 10 years and worked for 33 years...
Frances Parsons
Mar 29, 2002
Frances Hedges Parsons, 68, of 25 Ledge Road Jamestown, RI formerly of Farmington, CT, died Friday, March 29, 2002 at home. She was the wife of John Bradford Parsons. Born in Montclair, NJ on May 22, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Frances Breadon Hedges.Mrs. Parsons was a member of the Conanicut Yacht Club in...
Arthur S. North
Mar 17, 2002
Arthur S. North of 75 Water Street Portsmouth died March 17th at Rhode Island Hospital after a month long battle with pneumonia. Mr. North was the son of the late Carl and Helen Ward North and is survived by his wife Edna Nunes North.He was the Foreign Language Department Head at Middletown High School and taught German. He received his...
Alfred Dennis Silvia Iii
Mar 11, 2002
Alfred Dennis ?A.D.? Silvia, III, 18, of 8 Leal Terrace Newport, died Monday, March 11, 2002 at home.Born in Newport, RI on October 7, 1983, he was the son of Alfred Dennis ?Al? Silvia Jr. of Newport and Maria L. Escobar Silvia-Deveau of Newport. Mr. Silvia attended Cluny School, Bishop Connolly School, where he was on the Soccer Team and...
Kimberly Margaret Zerbus-Jacome
Mar 1, 2002
Kimberly Margaret Zerbus-Jacome, 35, of 14 Sunset Avenue Portsmouth, died Friday, March 1, 2002 at home.Born in Fall River, MA on April 28, 1966, she was the daughter of Joseph G. and Verna Lawton Zerbus of Portsmouth.Kimberly was a graduate of Portsmouth High Scool. She then went on to Diamond Regional School of Nursing where she received her LPN. She...
Wayne N. Barretto
Feb 17, 2002
Wayne N. Barretto, 32, of 408 Park Ave Portsmouth, died unexpectedly Monday, February 18, 2002 at Newport Hospital in Newport, RI. He was the son of Mary Correira Barretto, of Portsmouth and the late Joseph Barretto, Sr. For the last 15 years, Mr. Barretto worked as a carpenter with his brother at Custom Building in Portsmouth, doing home renovations and...
Chauncey F. Dewey
Feb 14, 2002
Chauncey Ffoulke Dewey , 69 of ?Felicity? at 604 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, died at his home on Thursday, February 14, 2002. He was the husband of Elise Archer Dewey. He previously made his home at 4725 Quebec Street, N.W., Washington DC. Born in New York, NY, on May 30, 1932, he was the son of the late Albert B. and...
Robert E. Hobbs
Feb 6, 2002
Robert Ellice Hobbs passed away suddenly on February 6, 2002 at William Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, he was the youngest of seven children of the late Pleasant Hobbs and Mary Elizabeth Bolling. Robert was a career serviceman who honorably served in the U.S. Navy as a Quartermaster for 20 years. A veteran of the Korean...
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