John A. Gunnarson
Apr 24, 2013
John Allan Gunnarson died peacefully following a long struggle with a rare, debilitating, neuromuscular disease, Inclusion Body Myositis, on April 24, 2013 at the age of 87.John is survived by his loving wife of nineteen years, Mary Ann, who, over the past several years was his devoted companion and caretaker. John had lost his first wife, Ione, to cancer after...
Henry P. Berlied
Apr 18, 2013
Henry Paul Berlied, age 92 and life long resident of Concord, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, April 18, 2013. He was the husband of the late Thelma (Wetherbee) Berlied who passed away in 1986. Born in Concord on October 1, 1920, he was the son of the late Norwegian immigrants, Conrad and Inga (Olsen) Berlied. Raised and...
Alice Purins Plume
Apr 7, 2013
Alice Plume died in Concord on April 7, 2013 at the age of 98. Spirited and smart, with a huge heart, Alice had a love for life and learning that endeared her to the many people in Concord who knew her. She still loved going to the library and visiting with friends. Alice was born in Riga, Latvia on July...
Frances Roche Brown
Mar 28, 2013
Frances Roche Brown, 89, of Concord, died in her home, surrounded by her family on March 28. Born in New York City, November 26, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Elizabeth (White) Roche and Harding S. Roche. Raised in Short Hills, NJ and Baltimore, MD, she was a graduate of the Friends School of Baltimore and Wellesley College,...
Joan Amy (Urlwin) Payne
Mar 24, 2013
Joan Amy (Urlwin) Payne of Concord MA, age 96. Born on Oct 2nd 1916 in Ilford England, to Arthur and Helen Urlwin. She was never to know her father who became one of the many victims of the trench warfare of World War I. She leaves behind her beloved son Michael and his wife Frances, her grandchildren Christine Perkins, David...
Beverly Fell
Mar 24, 2013
Beverly Fell, 86, of Acton, passed away, at Kaplan House in Danvers, Massachusetts on Sunday, March 24, 2013. Born in Bedford, Ma January 20, 1927 Beverly was the youngest child of Doctor Thomas and Florence (Collupy) Fell. Beverly was raised in Bedford and Lincoln and graduated from Lexington High School and Massachusetts College of Art. Beverly later lived in Concord...
Jane M. Toivonen
Mar 20, 2013
Jane Marilyn Toivonen, a Concord resident since 2006, passed away March 20, 2013. She was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 4, 1924 the second of two daughters to Finnish parents, the late Lauri and Alexandra (Johansson) Toivonen. Born blind, Jane received her primary and high school education at New York City's special schools for the blind.She attended Queens College...
Joan Waterhouse Vanderpoel
Mar 19, 2013
Joan Vanderpoel was born in Boston, MA in 1920, the daughter of the late Dorothy Bramhall Waterhouse and the late Richard E. Waterhouse. She graduated from the Rogers Hall School in Lowell and the Erskine School of Boston. Joan married the late John Arent Vanderpoel in 1941, the day after he received his Army Air Force commission and his pilot's...
Marcheta A. (Novak) Miller
Mar 8, 2013
Marcheta Ailene Novak was born on September 17th, 1924 in Howells, Nebraska. She was named Marcheta (pronounced Mar-KEE-ta) after a 1913 love song written by the American composer Victor Schertzinger. The daughter of Fred and Ann Novak, she was the fourth of five children and a descendent of immigrant families from Czechoslovakia who settled in eastern Nebraska, northwest of Omaha....
Carmen Proehl Hennings
Mar 1, 2013
Carmen P. Hennings died peacefully in Carleton-Willard Nursing Center on March 1, 2013 at the age of 99.Carmen was born on December 1, 1913, in the small town of Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, the oldest of five children of Kathryn H. and Dr. Herman A. Proehl. Her rich family history traces to Pilgrim days and the American Revolutionary War with ancestors...