Donald M. Johnson, 92, of Poplar Street, died peacefully on Friday, February 28, 2014 at Elm Wood Center in Claremont. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts on January 18, 1922, the son of Charles L. and Elizabeth (Bailey) Johnson. He lived in Tarpon Springs, Florida for 20 years before moving to Andover in 2009. The family […]
Mark was born on June 30, 1960 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Mark graduated from Belmont High School in 1978. Most of his adult life he lived in Danbury. Mark was a self-employed logger. He loved the outdoors and nature and would never have been one to punch a time clock. He respected the land and […]
Mrs. Phyllis Mary (Getto) Benward, of Wilmot, 74, died on Sunday, February 23, 2014, at New London Hospital of complications from a long-term illness. Phyllis, daughter of Mathew and Emma (Rapp) Getto of New Jersey, is predeceased by her husband Kenneth E. Benward (1933-1986); her parents, Matthew and Emma Getto; and survived by her brother […]
F. David Sheldon, 90, formerly of Schenectady, New York, Andover, and New London, passed away on February 18, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona. Born October 17, 1923, the son of Neil O. and Lenah (Flower) Sheldon, the family moved to Schenectady in 1925 where his father bought a business. David graduated in 1948 from Cornell University […]
The Hersey Farm in East Andover was one of his special places
Roger Hersey, an Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust (ASLPT) land donor, died on May 12, 2013 at age 64, after a four-year battle with multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer. Roger grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, and spent the last 30 years of his life in Middlefield, Connecticut, where he and his wife Nancy, […]
Clinton Wayne Patten died January 17, 2014. He was born on March 9, 1931 in East Andover, the son of Harold and Florence (Tenney) Patten. He attended Andover and Franklin High Schools. He lived on the Concord Heights for over 63 years; living on East Sugar Ball Road and then Pembroke Road since May 1976. […]
Margaret Rose (LaPlante) Paquette died at Lakes Region General Hospital on February 1, 2014, following a three-month fight against cancer. Margaret was born on June 10, 1938, in East Andover, one of seven children of the late J. Benjamin and Dorothy (Hersey) LaPlante. Mrs. Paquette was a graduate of Franklin High School, attended Plymouth State […]
Hazel I. (Holt) Brown, 91, of New London, died Friday, January 31, 2014 at The Clough Center in New London. Hazel was born in Andover on November 27, 1922, the daughter of Jesse M. and Iva H. (Braley) Holt. She graduated from Concord High School in 1940. She worked for Fitch Murray Drugstore in Concord […]
Cheri P. Bates passed on to be with our Lord on Monday, January 27, at New London Hospital surrounded by her loving family. Cheri fought a six-year battle with Alzheimer’s and finally succumbed to pneumonia. Cheri was born in Salem, Massachusetts on April 3, 1967, the daughter of Loretta (Raymond) Bates and William S. Bates. […]
Kenneth Irving Coombs, 85, of Andover, passed away peacefully on January 9, 2014, at the Hospice House in Concord following a valiant battle with cancer. He was born in Bath, Maine, on December 13, 1928, to Charles A. Coombs, Jr., and Mildred Coombs Drury. He reported for US Air Force basic training in August of […]