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...
Joan C. (Thornton) Baldridge
Feb 18, 2013
Joan C. (Thornton) Baldridge, age 79 of Concord passed away peacefully on Monday, February 18, 2013. She was the wife of Robert Baldridge.Joan was a graduate of East Providence High School in 1950, and Lincoln School of Providence in 1951. In 1955, she earned her B.A. At Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. She married her high school sweetheart...
Victor H. Laughton
Feb 18, 2013
Victor H. Laugthon, age 87 formerly of Silver Spring, MD formerly of Concord. Feb. 18, 2013. Husband of the late Eva Laughton. Survived by his son Steven D. Laughton of Silver Spring, MD. Gifts in his memory may be made to Save Our Seminary9615 Dewitt Drive #68 Silver Sprint, MD 20910.