Her story is filled with mystery and discovery
Born in 1957 in Worms, Germany, Ulrike Smith’s immigration story is filled with mystery and discovery. She is a petite, stylish woman with dark eyes and olive complexion. I sensed when I sat down with her that I was about to hear a very interesting life story. Ulrike never knew her father or anything about […]
Poet is former Andover resident
Back When —for Irene Jewett, 1921 – 2022 on summer nights after working the dinner shift she’d go to the lake with her girlfriends to skinny dip linger and smoke cigarettes the boys always came later she said their headlights beaming that was when there was a stocking mill and hame shop in […]
Carlyse and Bob met in Ukraine
Few people can say they have met Vladimir Putin, former KGB intelligence officer and current President of Russia. Carlyse and Bob Evans, of North Wilmot Road, told me this extraordinary story of how they happened to come to be in his presence as the three of us chatted in their kitchen. They told of their […]
Peter Kimball Smyrl, 76, of Candia, New Hampshire, died Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at Granite VNA Hospice House in Concord. He was born on September 13, 1946 in Manchester, the son of Albert W. Smyrl and Dorothy Kimball Smyrl. Peter married his high school sweetheart Dayle Rojek Smyrl on June 22, 1969 in Manchester. He […]
Shirley Henderson Currier, 87, left this life surrounded by family at Concord Hospital on May 5, 2023. Shirley was born on December 19,1935 in Fort Fairfield, Maine, to Perley Henderson Sr. and Elsie (Hanson) Henderson. The family moved to New Hampshire in 1938, settling on Tucker Mountain Road in East Andover. She graduated from Andover […]
We are saddened to announce the loss of our father, Daniel L. Ross. “Danny” passed peacefully at his home of 55 years in Granby, Connecticut, a wish he had all his life. He was born July 4, 1934 in Hartford, son of the late Louis and Kathleen (Lucy) Ross. For most of their lives together, […]
Lorraine Fanelli Christy, 65, passed away peacefully at her home in Andover, with her husband and children by her side on April 28, 2023. She was born on May 5, 1957 in Poughkeepsie, New York, to her loving parents Joan (Pink) Fanelli and Daniel Fanelli; she was their only child. Lorraine grew up in Pleasant […]
Verne E. Barrett, 88, of Scythe Shop Road, Elkins, died Friday, May 19, 2023 at the Concord Hospital. He was born in New London on November 20, 1934, the son of Harry and Florence M. (Hunt) Barrett. Verne graduated from New London High School in 1953, and earned an Associate’s Degree from Bentley College in […]
Johneric Wickstrom, 88, resident of Tilton since 2006, passed away at the Merrimack County Nursing Home in Boscawen on Sunday, April 23, 2023 after a long illness. He was born in Bollnas, Sweden on April 24, the son of the late Erik and Hilda (Larsson) Wickstrom. Johneric served as a Pastor in Sweden for 13 […]
Andover benefitted from his public service
William (Bill) Bardsley, 93, of Andover died March 20 due to complications associated with congestive heart failure. Bill was born August 19, 1929 in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of William and Doris Bardsley. He graduated from William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia prior to attending Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts […]