Local Obituaries
Maureen R. Dugan
Mar 27, 2011
Maureen R. Dugan a resident of Dedham for over 30 years died Sunday, March 27, 2011, after a long illness. She was 61. Mrs. Dugan was born in Boston. She was the daughter of the late Joseph G. Sr. and the late Rita E. Morris McManus. Maureen grew up and graduated from Hyde Park High School. She retired in...
Edith Spence
Mar 21, 2011
Edith (Smith) Spence, a resident of New Pond Village in Walpole for the last 8 years, and formerly of Dedham for over 50 years, died Monday, March 21, 2011 at Briarwood Healthcare Center in Needham. She was 97. Edith was born April 29, 1913 in Fall River, Massachusetts, one of the three children of George C. and Mary B....
Jean E. Blum
Mar 16, 2011
Jean Elizabeth (McCulloch) Blum, the wife of the late Joseph Bonner Blum, Jr., died Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale. She was 78. Jean was born April 8, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only daughter of William and Margaret (Smith) McCullouch. She worked for 15 years as a laundry woman at the Glover Hospital...
Roy A. Johnson
Mar 16, 2011
Roy August Johnson, a lifelong resident of Norwood, died Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 at the Sunrise Assisted Living Center in Norwood. He was 91. Roy was born January 1, 1920 in Norwood, Massachusetts, the son of August T. and Gunhild (Carlson) Johnson, emmi- grants from Sweden. He served in the US Army Air Force from 1941 to 1945 during...
David Stranahan
Mar 16, 2011
David Kennedy Warren Stranahan, a resident of Westwood for 45 years, died Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at the Norwood Hospital in Norwood after a brief illness. He was 83. David was born December 8, 1927 in Brookline, Massachusetts, a son of Samuel and Jane (Campbell) Stranahan. He graduated from Brookline High School before being inducted in to the US...
William J. Anderson
Mar 15, 2011
William John Anderson, of Walpole, died Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at the Maples Nursing Home in Wrentham. He was 77. William was born November 11, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the four sons of Herbert and Hilda (Rodenhizer) Anderson. He graduated from Roslindale High School and served from 1955 to 1957 in the United States Navy. William then worked...
Paul Hayward
Mar 14, 2011
Paul Hayward, a resident of Dedham for 57 years, died Monday, March 14th, 2011 at the West Roxbury VA Hospital in Boston after a short illness. He was 87. Paul was born November 30, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the six children of Henry and Catherine (Casey) Hayward. He served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946...
Marla J. Williams
Mar 11, 2011
Marla J. Williams, a resident of Roslindale for over 3 years, died Friday, March 11, 2011, peacefully at home, surrounded by her sons and family. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and was the daughter of the late Russell R. & Lois A. (Davis) Simpson. Marla received her PH D in Spanish Literature at Indiana University. She lived in...
Quinn Laura A. Dluzynski
Mar 8, 2011
Laura A. Dluzynski Quinn, a resident of Dedham, died Tuesday, March 8, 2011 after a long illness. She was 45. Laura was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Medina, Ohio in 1974. She graduated as Valedictorian of Cloverleaf High School, Lodi Ohio, in 1984. She received her BA in English from Hiram College, Summa Cum Laude,...
Gulli Borg
Mar 6, 2011
Gulli Linnea (Lind) Borg, a resident of Dedham since 1938, died Sunday, March 6, 2011 at the North Hill Skilled Nursing Facility in Needham after several years of declining health. She was 101. Gulli was born July 19, 1909 in Karlshamn, Sweden, one of the four daughters of Olaf and Emma (Melin) Lind. She emmigrated from Sweden to the...
Margery Parsons
Mar 6, 2011
Margery Jane (Lyons) Parsons, a resident of Dedham for 82 years, died Sunday, March 6, 2011 at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston after a brief illness. She was 88. Margery was born April 30, 1922 in Portland, Maine, the only child of Owen P. and Ceciel (Sisson) Lyons. She grew up in Dedham, graduating from Dedham High School with...
William M. “Willie” Watts
Mar 5, 2011
William Martin Watts, a longtime resident of Roslindale, died peacefully Saturday, March 5, 2011 with his grandson Gareth W. Watts and his friends by his side at the Stanley Tippett House in Needham. He was 86. Mr. Watts was born in County Galway, Ireland and was the son of the late William and Mary (Burke) Watts. He worked as...
Florence E. Allen
Mar 3, 2011
Florence E. Allen, a resident of Roslindale for over 50 years, died Thursday, March 3, 2011, after a long illness. She was 90 years old. Mrs. Allen was born in Boston. She was the daughter of the late Hans C. and Nicoline (Toft) Hall. Mrs. Allen joined the United States Army and was a veteran of World War II,...
Marjorie G. Lloyd
Feb 28, 2011
Marjorie G. Lloyd, a resident of Sunrise Assisted Living community in Norwood and Littlejohn Island, Yarmouth, Maine, died Monday, February 28, 2011, after a long illness. She was 93. Mrs. Lloyd was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and was the daughter of the late Harold and Queda (Kay) Hill. She graduated from North Quincy High School,loved playing cards and belonged...
Naomi Duncan
Feb 26, 2011
Naomi (Burroughs) Duncan, 84, of Walpole and formerly of Dedham, died Saturday, February 26, 2011, at Tippett Home in Needham. She was born February 22, 1927 in Boston and graduated from the Dorchester High School for Girls in 1943. After high school, she worked for several years at the Radiation Lab at MIT. She married the late David A....
Zelma Alksnitis
Feb 24, 2011
Zelma Alksn ī tis, (nee Vēzis), Jan. 31, 1917- Feb. 24, 2011. Born in Rybinsk, Russia during WWI to Latvian refugee parents Eda and Pēteris Vēzis, Zelma was a young child when the family returned to Ventspils, Latvia, after years of crossing and recrossing Siberia. She grew up in Ventspils, where she...
Edward Carro
Feb 22, 2011
Edward Carro, a resident of Westwoood for 50 years, died Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at the Norwood Hospital. He was 85. Edward was born June 13, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the five children of Joseph and Sarah (Solomon) Carro. He graduated from Dorchester High School for Boys and joined the Marines during World War Two. Edward was...
O. Gloria Molander
Feb 18, 2011
Olga Gloria (Olson) Molander, a resident of the Scandinavian Living Center in West Newton for the past year, and formerly of Dedham for 43 years, died Friday, February 18th, 2011 at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Brighton after a brief illness. She was 86. Gloria was born August 18, 1924 in Everett, Massachusetts, the only daughter of Anders and Olga...
Ruth V. Lemieux
Feb 16, 2011
Ruth Valerie (Furkart) Lemieux, a resident of Westwood for over 30 years, and formerly of Jamaica Plain, died Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at the Golden View Nursing Home in Meredith New Hampshire after a brief illness. She was 94. Ruth was born August 12, 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the four children of Alfred and Fannie (Blake) Furkart. ...
Mary E. Mikulski
Feb 13, 2011
Mary Elizabeth Mikulski, a resident of Dedham for over 40 years, died Sunday, February 13, 2011, at Sunrise Assisted Living in Norwood. She was 86. Mrs. Mikulski was born in Boston. She was the daughter of the late Daniel F. and Elizabeth J. (Norton) Minehan. Mary graduated from the Dorchester School for Girls and was a clerk for the...
