Local Obituaries
Mary “May” Hamblen
Jun 17, 2012
Mary “May” (Mackba) Hamblen, a resident of Norwood since 1984, and formerly of Westwood, Roslindale, and West Roxbury, died Sunday, June 17, 2012 at the Charlwell Nursing Home in Norwood. She was 84. Mary was born May 24, 1928 in Boston, a daughter of Jibran and Linda (Saliba) Mackba, immigrants from Syria. She grew up in Boston and graduated...
Marion L. (Tuohy) Cooke
Jun 9, 2012
Marion Louise (Tuohy) Cooke, a resident of Norfolk and formerly of Dedham, died Saturday, June 9, 2012 after a courageous 6 year battle with breast cancer. She was surrounded by her loving family. She was the daughter of Marion L. (Derau) and the late John J. Tuohy. Marion was a graduate of Dedham High School and the...
Arthur Georgiou
Jun 7, 2012
Arthur Georgiou died Thursday, June 7, 2012 at his home in Roslindale. He was 63. Arthur was born November 29, 1948 in Athens, Greece, a son of Pericles and Maria (Georgacopoulos) Georgiou. He served in the US Army in Vietnam for two years. Arthur worked as a self-employed hair stylist. He is survived by his brother, Charles...
George W. Flint
Jun 4, 2012
George Willard Flint III, a resident of Plainville for several years and formerly a resident of Norwood and Westwood, died Monday, June 4, 2012 at his home in Plainville. He was 69. George was born March 4, 1943 in Norwood, Massachusetts, the only son of George W. and Pauline (Allenspacker) Flint. He was the brother of the late Susan...
Virginia G. Flagg
Jun 2, 2012
Virginia G. Flagg, a resident of West Roxbury for over 50 years died quietly June 2, 2012, at the Deutsches Altenheim in West Roxbury. She was 89. She was born in Boston and was the daughter of the late Robert S. and Dorothy (Jones) Fish. Virginia grew up in Billerica and was a graduate of Billerica High School. She...
Chester E. Mcmartin
Jun 1, 2012
Chester E. McMartin, a resident of West Roxbury, passed away on June 1, 2012. He was 99. Chester was born on April 25, 1913 in Silver Creek, Iowa to Ernest and Rose (Hendricks) McMartin. He spent his childhood on the family farm in Iowa. After graduating high school, he decided to hitchhike up the West Coast for a year. ...
Russell S. Finbow
Jun 1, 2012
Russell S. Finbow, a life long resident of Norwood, passed away on June 1, 2012 at the age of 87. Mr. Finbow was a graduate of the Norfolk Agricultural High School in Walpole. He served in the US Army as a corporal during World War II. After leaving the service he started his own business and became proprietor of...
Allen K. Swanson
May 22, 2012
Allen Kenneth Swanson, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, inventor, director, engineer, perfectionist. Allen was born on May 14, 1930, to Eugene Swanson and Ella Lindstrom, both first generation immigrants from Sweden. Allen was one of their six sons, and is survived by his brother Clyde of North Reading. During World War II, when he was just 14, Allen was...
Genovefa Mintsas
May 21, 2012
Genovefa (Trellopoulos) Mintsas, a resident of Norwood for the past three years, but formerly of Roslindale for over 40 years, died Monday, May 21, 2012 at her home in Norwood. She was 89. Genovefa was born May 3, 1927 in Platanakia, Serres, Greece, a daughter of Efstathios and Fotini (Athanasiadou) Trellopoulos. She worked for forty years as a seamstress...
Rev Walter Swensen
May 19, 2012
Reverend Walter Ferdinand Swensen, a resident of Westwood, died Saturday, May 19, 2012 at the Deutsches Altenheim in West Roxbury. He was 92. Walter was born June 8, 1919 in Wyndere, North Dakota, the only son of Norweigan immigrants Bjarne Norman Ingeberd and Caspara (Kirkhus) Swensen. He was a graduate of the National Bible Institute in New York City...
Shirley J. Stewart
May 7, 2012
Shirley J. Stewart, a resident of Westwood for the past four years, and forlery of Belmont and Waltham, died Monday, May 7, 2012 at Highgate Manor in Dedham. She was 82. Shirley was born June 30, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the seven children of William H. and Anna Marie (Campbell) Stewart. She earned her nursing degree from...
Judith A. Stevens
May 6, 2012
Judith Ann Stevens, a lifelong resident of Dedham, died Sunday, May 6, 2012, at the Charlwell House in Norwood. She was 70. Judy was born in Boston and was the daughter of the late Robert & Mary Jane (Agee) Shreve. She graduated from Dedham High School with the Class of 1959, the Quincy School of Nursing, and from the...
Adeline W. Obuchon
May 6, 2012
Adeline Winifred Obuchon, a resident of Sharon for the past 4 years, but formerly of Canton for 54 years, died Sunday, May 6, 2012 at the Norwood Hospital in Norwood. She was 89. Adeline was born November 8, 1922 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, the only daughter of William F. and Mildred Inez (Leland) Cox. She started working for the...
John Meklis
May 3, 2012
John Meklis, a resident of Dedham, died on May 3, 2012 at the age of 57. He was born in Skortsinos, Arkadias, Greece to the late Konstatinos and Konstantina (Tsinonis) Meklis. At the age of 11 he moved to the United States with his parents and two siblings. John liked to spend his days enjoying all the pleasures of...
Priscilla Payne
Apr 30, 2012
Priscilla Cobb Payne, aged 104, died at Fox Hill Village, Westwood, Massachusetts on April 30, 2012. Mrs. Payne was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Newton, Mass. She was the daughter of the late well known authors, Bertha Browning Barnes and Ernest Codman Cobb, founders of the Arlo Publishing Company.
Mrs. Payne was formerly married...
Barbara A. Leith
Apr 16, 2012
Barbara Ann (Bell) Leith, a resident of Dedham for 45 years, died Monday, April 16, 2012, at the Clark House in Westwood. She was 83. Barbara was born November 15, 1928 in Sarasota, Florida, a daughter of Floyd Lee and Grace (Driver) Bell. She grew up in Boston and, after her marriage, spent the rest of her life in Westwood...
Daniel J. Galvin
Apr 10, 2012
Daniel J. Galvin, a resident of Hyde Park, formerly of West Roxbury, died suddenly on April 10, 2012 at the age of 52. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to the late Joseph E. Galvin and Joan Marie (Daley). He was part of the first graduating class of West Roxbury High School. He worked as a laborer doing general construction and...
Joseph W. Gigante
Apr 9, 2012
Joseph William Gigante, a resident of Westwood for over 60 years, died Monday, April 9, 2012 at his home. He was 95. Joseph was born December 2, 1916 in New York City, New York, the son of Italian immigrants John and Anna (Gambardella) Gigante. Joseph earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from New York University. He founded STOL...
Kathleen R. Taraschi
Apr 7, 2012
Kathleen Regina (Kelly) Taraschi of Dedham, formerly of Hingham, passed gracefully and courageously from this life on April 7, 2012 at Kaplan Family Hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts. Kathy was born on April 4, 1950, in Dorchester to Walter J. Kelly and Margaret (Murphy) Kelly of Hingham. After graduating from Sacred Heart High School in Kingston, Kathy studied Theater and...
Audrey I. Emerson
Apr 6, 2012
Audrey I. Emerson (Robertson), a resident of Dedham, entered into enternal rest on Good Friday, April 6, 2012 surrounded by her children. She was 88. Audrey was born in Holbrook, Massachusetts and was the beloved daughter of the late Harry Edward and Rose Evelyn (Rines) Robertson Sr. After graduating from Holbrook High School, she attended secretarial school and then...
