OBITUARIES
Pearl Leonore Driscoll
Feb 14, 2013
Pearl Leonore Driscoll, age 96, died peacefully on February 14, 2013 at Pheasant Wood Nursing Home in Peterborough, NH. Pearl was born December 6, 1916, in Oil City, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charlotta and Silas Parsons. In 1946, Pearl married the love of her life Edward P. Driscoll. They lived in Erie together for 54 years until his death in...
Jean H. Stanton
Feb 13, 2013
Jean H. Stanton, 89, of Jaffrey died February 13, 2013, with family by her side, at the Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough following a brief illness. She was born November 17, 1923 in Waltham MA, daughter of the late Charles E. and Alberta (Sweet) Harvey. Jean was a graduate of Belmont (MA) High School and Katherine Gibbs School in Boston....
Robert L. Barton
Feb 11, 2013
Robert L. Barton, 95, of Peterborough, NH died on February 11, 2013 at Summerhill Assisted Living, following a period of declining health. Mr. Barton was born on February 9, 1918, in Stillwater, NY son of Chester and Helen (Southard) Barton. Mr. Barton attended Saratoga Springs High School in New York and graduated in 1936. He married Bertha A. DiPasquale on...
Steven A. Coll
Feb 10, 2013
Steven A. Coll, 37, of Greenville, New Hampshire (formerly of Jaffrey, NH) died on Sunday, February 10, 2013 as a result from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. Steven was born on December 7, 1975 in Keene, NH son of Thomas J. and Angelique (Caron) Coll. He attended schools in Jaffrey, which is where he lived a majority of...
Margaret Crawford
Feb 8, 2013
Margaret “Maggie” Elizabeth Crawford, 97, died Friday February 8, 2013 at the Presidential Oaks in Concord, NH. She was born December 3, 1915 in Franklin, NH, daughter of the late Ralph E. and Sadie (Sanborn) Wells. Her formative years were spent in Contoocook where she attended Contoocook schools. She has been a resident of Presidential Oaks for the past twenty...
Elaine M. Mercier
Feb 4, 2013
Elaine M. Mercier, 74, of Jaffrey, NH died unexpectedly and peacefully on Monday, February 4, 2013 at her home at Gilmore Court in Jaffrey. She was born on September 8, 1938 in Marlborough Massachusetts, daughter of Wilbur and Loretta (LaFreniere) Pitman. Elaine graduated from Marlborough (MA) High School and married Robert F. Mercier with whom she had a loving, large...
Elaine G. Barlow
Feb 3, 2013
Elaine G. Barlow, 87, of Keene NH passed away on Sunday February 3, 2013. She was born September 19, 1925 in Keene, daughter of the late Charles and Mabel (Fosdick) Gray. She was a 1943 graduate of Keene High School and also attended Northfield Academy before starting Bates College in Maine. Mrs. Barlow earned her Bachelor’s degree in English from...
James Amirsakis
Feb 3, 2013
Jaffrey, New Hampshire James Amirsakis, 68, of Jaffrey and Bonita Springs, Florida, died peacefully on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer. Mr. Amirsakis was born on February 2, 1945 in Samos, Greece, son of the late John and Irene Amirsakis. He had received his education at Boston Technical High...
Donald A. Pyke
Jan 28, 2013
Donald A. Pyke, 84, surrounded by his beloved children: Donald Gregory Pyke and Irene Rose Pyke transitioned on Monday, January 28, 2013 to an eternal life with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Donald Augustus Pyke was born on May 20th 1928 in Montego Bay Jamaica to the late Irene Cunningham and Louis Pyke. He was raised by his late...
Nancy Lynn McMillan
Jan 28, 2013
Nancy Lynn McMillan, 47, of Jaffrey, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday January 28, 2013 at her residence. She was born on December 4, 1965 in Rahway, New Jersey, daughter of the late Charles and Anne (Norton) McMillan. Nancy graduated in 1983 from Springfield VT. High school and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1987...
Dixie Howard Brodmerkle
Jan 27, 2013
Dixie Howard Brodmerkle, 94, of Jaffrey, died Sunday January 27, 2013 at the Good Shepherd Health Care Center in Jaffrey. She was born October 8, 1918 in Waxhaw, NC, daughter of the late Richard M. and Margaret (Sims) Kimbrell. She was a 1936 graduate of Waxhaw High School. Dixie has been a resident of Jaffrey since 1938. She had worked...
Mildred E. Moore
Jan 26, 2013
Mildred E. Moore, 90, formerly of Townsend, MA and Jaffrey, NH; died peacefully Saturday January 26, 2013 at the Keystone Center in Leominster, MA surrounded by the love of her family. She was born September 19, 1922 in Wilton, NH daughter of the late John and Lillian (Kelly) Weston. She attended Hudson (MA) High School and graduated from the Fanning...
Victor Enoch Karlsen
Jan 22, 2013
Victor Enoch Karlsen, infant son of Brian and Rebecca (Ketola) Karlsen died January 22, 2013 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon. Victor Enoch was born on January 22, 2013 in Lebanon, NH where he received the warmest and most tender care from his family and all of the wonderful nurses and doctors who took care of him and his...
Mildred A. Oyler
Jan 21, 2013
Mildred A. Oyler, 93, formerly of New Ipswich, NH, died peacefully in St. Augustine, FL on January 21, 2013 with her daughter Deborah by her side. She was born in Roanoke, VA on Dec. 10, 1919, daughter of the late W. Earl and Ida (Groves) Allen. Millie, a Virginia lady, served as a civilian with the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
Mitchell Ernie Menard
Jan 19, 2013
Troy, NH Mitchell ‘Ernie’ Menard, 90, passed away on January 19, 2013 at Baldwinville Nursing Home in Templeton, MA after a brief illness. He was born on June 23, 1922 in Gardner, MA, son of the late Mitchell Menard and Mary Coderre. He grew up in Winooski, Vermont and had served as an MP in the U.S. Army during WWII....
Kenneth P. Warren
Jan 16, 2013
Peterborough, NH Kenneth P. Warren, 93, passed away on January 16, 2013 at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, NH after a period of failing health. Ken was born on August 13, 1919 in Bennington, NH, son of the late Pearl and Gladys (Dodge) Warren. He grew up on the family farm and in 1940 he joined the U.S. Army Air...
Jane Wilson Walling
Jan 12, 2013
Jane Wilson Walling, 97, died peacefully at the RiverMead Retirement Community in Peterborough, NH on January 12, 2013. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 3, 1915 to the late Joseph Wilson and his wife Hazel Ford Wilson, later Hazel Ford Shannon. Jane married Cheves Tompson Walling, a noted physical organic chemist, on September 16, 1940. They were married...
Margaret E. Payne
Jan 9, 2013
Margaret E. Payne, 87, of Nashua, died peacefully Wednesday January 9, 2013 at the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, following a brief illness. She was born March 13, 1925 in Bloomfield, Kansas daughter of the late Grant and Helen (Walker) Mc Elwain. She grew up in Beloit, Kansas and was a graduate of the local high school. Mrs. Payne has...
Daniel L. Peard
Jan 5, 2013
Jaffrey, New Hampshire Daniel L. Peard, 34, of Jaffrey, left us on Saturday, January 5, 2013 as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Dan was born on January 26, 1978 in Peterborough, NH, son of John M. and Lauren A. (Ouellette) Peard, Sr. He attended Conant High School and was a lifelong resident of Jaffrey. Dan brightened...
Marjorie C. Gosling
Jan 5, 2013
Marjorie C. “Midge” Gosling, 71, of Rindge died Saturday January 5, 2013 at the Catholic Medical Center in Manchester following a brief illness. She was born November 20, 1941 in Mineola, NY daughter of the late David A. and Jean (Van Vranken) Comstock of Wilton, Connecticut. She was a 1959 graduate of Greens Farms Academy in Westport, CT; and received...
