John Frederic Casey died
in 1993. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he married Peg Nies
(Swampscott High School Class of 1955) and raised three sons. He graduated from
Northeastern University with honors in 1979 and received his Masters degree from Anna
Maria College in 1981. He served with the MDC Police until 1969, when he joined the
Swampscott Police Department and attained the rank of lieutenant. (SHS Class of
1953 Remembrance Book, December 2003)
Harding Taylor Clark
Arthur Emanuel
Dinerman
died at the age of 62, in Olney, Maryland. He married Janet Arvin,
who survived him with their three children, Julie Ann, Joshua and Rebecca. At Artie's
death there were two grandchildren. Artie served in the U.S. Navy, was an engineer,
received his law degree and worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He later
became a self-employed engraver. (AG+Remembrance Book)
Barbara D. Durkee,
of Peabody,
formerly of Swampscott, 30 March 2009, Registered Nurse for
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Daughter of the late Roy and Dorothy
(Champion) Durkee. Survived by her three nephews, Lawrence E. Durkee,
Jr., of Andover, Paul D. Durkee of Holliston, Thomas F. Durkee of
Carmichael, California and a niece Dana-Ann Durkee of Colorado. She
also leaves several great nieces and nephews. She is the sister of
the late Russell D. and Lawrence E. Durkee. Her Funeral will be held
on Friday at 9:00 AM from the Solimine, Landergan and Richardson
Funeral Home, 67 Ocean Street (Rte. 1A) LYNN, followed by a Funeral
Mass in St. Mary's Church, Lynn at 10:00 AM Burial in Swampscott
Cemetery. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited. Visiting
hours on Thursday from 4 to 7 PM. Donations may be made to St.
Mary's High School, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 35
Tremont Street, Lynn, MA 01902. Directions and guestbook at
www.solimine.com.
E-mail
Visit Guest Book.
Boston Globe
Doris
Sarah
Eisenberg Winer
passed away in November 1987 from complications with
pneumonia. She left four children, David, Andrea, Mindy, and her
oldest (yours truly), a number of grandchildren, and her younger
sister Estelle Fine, who currently lives in Swampscott. My parents
had been divorced in the late 1970s. (Larry Winer, 1 January 2007)
Robert Edgar Gibson
died
on October 19, 1984. After service in the Army, he married in 1960. He worked at the G.E.
River Works in Lynn as a computer specialist. His hobby was "O" scale model
trains. He is survived by his wife, Louise, and four daughters. (Remembrance
Book)
Stanley Gordon
died in June
2008.
Derek
Hepworth
died on 18 April 2005 after a long illness contracted soon
after the 50th Class Reunion.
Elaine Hepworth wrote to the
Class of 53 website:
Often I think about your
wonderful reunion which was really one of Derek's
last healthy periods. (23 October 2005)
Toni Jaffee
died in November 2008 of cancer. Temple
Bat Yin, Ocean City, Maryland, of which she was a past chair, have named an
annual health fair in her honor.
James Lane, Jr
died 30 August 30, 2009
following a brief illness. He and Elaine (Byrne) Lane had shared
over 50 years of marriage.
Born in Lynn, he was raised
and educated in Swampscott. After high school, he enlisted in the
United States Army, served during the Korean War and was honorably
discharged in 1954. Upon marrying, he moved to Peabody where he
lived for 50 years.
James worked for Mass Electric
as a cable splicer for over 35 years in the Malden, Everett, and
Revere areas before retiring 12 years ago.
He was very proud of his Irish
heritage and he enjoyed visiting Ireland twice with Elaine. He
enjoyed boating and golfing. He enjoyed the time he spent with his
family and later, his grandchildren.
Besides Elaine, James is
survived by three sons and two daughers, nine grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews. (adapted from the Salem News)
Thomas
James O'Leary (Tom) died on 17 December 1968 at the age of 33, of a rare blood
deficiency. He was Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College, from
which he was on leave as visiting research professor at the National University of Chile.
Tom had graduated from Princeton University and earned his doctorate at Stanford
University. Before joining Williams, he was a research assistant for the Cuban Refugees in
Miami project and then research assistant for the Stanford studies of the Communist
system.
Tom's parents, his younger brothers Terry and Jim, and his younger sister all
survived him. Williams College established a fund in Tom's honor to further Latin-American
studies at the College.
Tom was unmarried. (AG)
Janet Marie Owens Dandreo
died on September 7, 1979. She leaves her husband William, two sons and one daughter. (Remembrance
Book)
Richard Eugene Parletta
died on January 28, 1983. After high school he entered the G.E. apprentice program. He had a
store in Wyoma Square, Lynn, who sold and serviced radio-controlled model airplanes. He is
survived by two sisters. (Remembrance Book)
Pricilla Parks Goddard
died on October 25, 2003 in Hampton, New Hampshire. She is survived by her husband,
Robert, two daughters, her sister and three grandchildren. She was predeceased by a son.
(Ann Maitland Whittemore, 6 December 2003)
Jackie Peters Allman
died during the summer of 2007.... Her ashes
were spread on Fisherman’s Beach.
(Ron Peters,
SHS Class of 1957, Jackie's brother, 2009)
Barbara A. Pettis Silsbee,
74, of Danvers, formerly of Lynn, died on November 22, 2008, at Beverly
Hospital, after a brief illness. she was the wife of the late Henry O. Sillsbee III.
Born in Swampscott, she was the daughter of the late Claude and Cecil
E. (DeVeau) Pettis.
She
graduated from Swampscott High School, Class of 1953 and had lived in
Lynn since 1959.
Mrs
Silsbee was a soprano soloist and enjoyed entertaining with her
husband at veterans' homes and at orphanages.
She was a member of AMVETS Auxiliary
No. 27, Lynn. She leaves two sons, Henry O. Silsbee IV and his wife,
Nadine, of Wilmington and Bradley L. Silsbee of Swampscott; two
daughters, Catherine E. Brackett and her husband, Scott, of
Gloucester; and Anna L. Stiros and her husband, Gus, of Lynn; two
brothers, Claude M. Pettis II of Pennsylvania and Leonard Pettis of
California; a sister, Claudia M. Scolamiero of Swampscott; four
grandchildren, Rebecca Brackett, James Stiros, Noelle and Rachel
Silsbee; and several nieces and nephews.
from the Marblehead Reporter,
sent by David Graham, 3 December 2008
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Doris Christine Porter Cowdell 's
son Jim Cowdell told Sally Kitfield Shannon that Doris was a stay-at-home mom until the
kids grew up then she went to work for Sears for a while.
She and her husband Herb moved to Milwaukee to be near their daughter Kathy.
They were there for 7 years. When they returned to Lynn, Doris went to work at the
Registry of Deeds. (That is where I saw her. SKS)
She had 4 children, James, Thomas, Richard & Kathy and 7 grandchildren.
Jim and Richard live in Lynn, as does Herb.
Doris was born 23 December 1934 and died 4 April 1994. She had bone cancer
and put up a good fight, working right up until a few days before she died.
(Sally Kitfield Shannon, 17 July 2003)
Suzanne Rafferty Covello
died
on 24 January 1997, of complications from asthma. Suzy graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College with a major in zoology and started her first career as
a research assistant at the Harvard Medical School.
In September 1958, she married Alfred (Tim) V. Covello and moved to
Hartford, Connecticut, where Tim was attending law school. Suzy worked as a personnel
specialist at the Aetna Life Insurance Company until the arrival of Timothy in 1961. Nancy
- named after godmother Nancy Waldo McGrath - arrived in 1965.
Suzy spent the major part of the next 20 years in parenting and civic
activities. Once both children were at Harvard, a part-time job doing title searches
led to a full-time career. She received her law degree in 1987, became a member of
the Connecticut Bar and joined the Connecticut Attorneys’ Title Insurance Company as
the senior title examiner. She was also vice-president of the Connecticut
Association of Real Property Professionals.
If asked, Suzy would have said her greatest achievement was her family,
which now includes a son-in-law, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren. (Tish
Bliss, sister, 22 August 2003)
Mary Ann Savino Stacey died on 6 December 6, 2004, at a local nursing home after a lengthy
illness. To read an obituary, click
here.
Sally Smith Cooke
died
on 10 July 2010. For the Boston Globe obituary,
CLICK HERE.
From the Salem News obituary:
MARBLEHEAD —
Sally Smith Cooke, 74, passed away peacefully at the Kaplan
Family Hospice House in Danvers, on Saturday, July 10, 2010
after celebrating her 50th anniversary on July 9. She will be
dearly missed by all who knew her.
Sally was born in
Lynn, to the late Frederick P. Smith and Mabelle Carrie Benvie
Smith on Dec. 22, 1935. Of her close childhood relatives, she
leaves her brother, Frederick P. Smith, of Ocala, Fla., and her
cousin, Jean Benvie Perkins and husband Hamilton Perkins of
Marblehead.
She grew up on
Hamilton Avenue in Lynn, where she attended elementary school and
Cobbett Junior High, later moving to Elmwood Road in Swampscott,
graduating from Swampscott High School in 1953, and from Bates
College in 1957 with a major in Biology. She was much loved and
respected by her classmates, who elected her Winter Carnival Queen
in 1957. Throughout her life she remained an active and devoted
Bates alumna, which included monthly luncheons with local
classmates.
Sally also
excelled in her career. She attained one of the first Masters in
Occupational Therapy from Tufts University in 1959. Her first job
was at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Boston. The following year she
married her lifelong love, Phillips C. Cooke of Swampscott. They
enjoyed a long and loving marriage, and she hung on long enough to
celebrate their 50th anniversary on July 9, passing away the day
after. Her family was her greatest joy, and she raised her
children in Marblehead. She temporarily ceased formal practice of
Occupational Therapy to bring up her three beloved children,
Jonathan, Peter and Jennifer. After her children were older, she
resumed work at United Cerebral Palsy in early intervention for
many years. For the first 40 years of their union she made her
family's home on Pequot Road until moving across the cove in 2001,
where her husband still resides.
Sally loved
participating in many activities in town, including being a deacon
and trustee of Old North Church, a long-term member and
past-president of the Cottage Gardeners of Marblehead, a 40-year
member of the Corinthian Yacht Club with her husband Phil, golfing
with her dear friends and a member of the "Purl Girls" knitting
group. She was also a gifted artist, creating many jewelry pieces,
watercolors and hooked rugs.
With her husband
Phil and her children, she developed a great sense of adventure as
she became an accomplished skier, spending many years skiing at
Waterville Valley, and went on many trips to the West and Alps
with fellow ski bus friends, hiked 32 of the 4.000 footers in the
White Mountains with her family and learned slalom waterskiing on
Lake Sunapee. Sally enjoyed adventure, and she and Phil traveled
the world together. One of her favorite trips was a cruise to
Iceland and Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island lying far within the
Arctic Circle.
She was a kind and
loving wife, mother, sister, cousin, grandmother, aunt and friend,
most especially remembered for her contagious smile, generous
warmth and incredible graciousness.
Sally was much
loved and will be greatly missed by her husband, Phillips Carter
Cooke of Marblehead; her son, Jonathan Phillips Cooke; daughter
in-law, Sarah, and their children, Rachel and Josh of Newton; son,
Peter Benvie Cooke; daughter-in-law, Mary Ann, and their children,
Madeleine and Jake of Westwood; and daughter, Jennifer Cooke
Rotman; son-in-law, Rich, and their children, Matthew and Samuel
of Westborough, and her countless friends.
Her family would
like to thank all of the special people at the Kaplan Family
Hospice House in Danvers and all of her care providers at
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, most especially her
oncologist, Ursula Matulonis, MD. |
(Erwin) Yale Strogoff
died on 10 October 2011
at home in Florida.
Yale Strogoff, age
75, died on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011 following a brief illness at his
home in Aventura, Fla.
Born in Cambridge,
he graduated from Swampscott High School and attended Boston
University. He was also a long time Marblehead resident. Mr.
Strogoff was a scrap metal dealer with businesses in Chelsea and
Everett. He was a member of the Iron and Metal Institute. An avid
boater and golfer he was a Vice Commodore of the Neptune Yacht Club
in Florida, former member of the Boston Yacht Club and a member of
their long range planning committee in Marblehead and a member of
the Diplomat Golf Club in Florida. He was a volunteer at the Aleph
Institute in Florida. He was a founder and past Brotherhood
President of Temple Beth Shalom in Peabody. Also he was a member of
the Aircraft Owners Pilot Assn., and the Mass. Surf Patrol.
Beloved husband of
Roberta "Bobbe" (Stryer) Strogoff. Devoted father of Cathy and her
husband Peter Netburn of Sudbury, Steven and his wife Kinga Strogoff
of Swampscott. Loving brother of Carol and her husband Dr. Harold
Levin of Swampscott. Cherished grandfather of Amanda Netburn, David
Netburn, Maika, Tyler, and Nicholas.
Salem News obituary (www.salemnews.com),
sent by Oneita Soutter
Janet Sullivan McGrath
died on 5 May 2007.
Nancy Tattle Lev
died on 13 May 2004. To read an obituary,
click here.
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