Peter Passaro
May 26, 2018
Peter Francis Passaro passed away peacefully on May 26 at his home in Dorset, Vermont, surrounded by his family. Born May 6, 1946 in Stamford, CT to the late Peter A. Passaro and Clementina Moroni Passaro, Peter is pre-deceased by his sister Marilyn Passaro. He is survived by his loving wife of fifty years, Taimi Herman Passaro, from whom...
Judith Lewis
May 26, 2018
Judith W. Lewis of Manchester, VT died peacefully on May 26, 2018. Judith is survived by her husband D. Brian Lewis also of Manchester, VT. She is survived by her four children, Kevin Lewis and his wife, Mary of Alpharetta, GA, Colleen Lewis and her husband, Scott Murphy of Belmont, MA, Kyle Lewis of Leesburg, VA, Darren Lewis of...
Philip Hardgrove
May 26, 2018
Philip G Hardgrove, 87, of West Halifax Vermont, passed away peacefully, Saturday May 26th 2018, surrounded by the people he loved most, his family. He was born January 24th 1931 in Caribou Maine. He traveled from Maine to Vermont at 14 years old to work for Frank Stone's sawmill in Halifax. He then worked at Kendall Mills in Colrain...
Karen Leslie Burke
May 21, 2018
Karen Leslie Burke of Paris, France, passed away on May 21, 2018, at the Marie Curie Institute in Paris, France, after a valiant struggle with cancer. She loved her friends, music, art, literature, fine cuisine, travel, all things French, and her three precious dogs Ootsie (deceased), Righi (deceased), and Hayden (5 years old). Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1945,...
Helen Mcmillan
May 15, 2018
Helen Marguerite McMillan, a longtime resident of Whitingham and more recently of Bennington died May 15, 2018 at Brookdale at Fillmore Pond in Bennington. The daughter of Samuel and Lillian (Rice) McMillan, Helen was born in New York City on December 19, 1917. She grew up in New York City where she graduated Walton High School in the Bronx,...
Virginia Lee Leverson
May 15, 2018
Virginia Lee Leverson, 83, a resident of Sunrise Lane, passed away Tuesday May 15, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family. Virginia was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 15, 1935 the daughter of the late George Samuel and Jessie Adele Paulson Zinn. Virginia was educated in Van Nuys, California, received her Associate Degree from Van Nuys Community...
Leon Francis John Peters
May 10, 2018
On Thursday evening, May 10, 2018, Leon Francis John Peters, 70, passed away at his home on Brick House Road, Whitingham, Vermont, where he was surrounded by his loving family. Lee, as he liked to be called, grew up in Heath, MA, the twelfth child of Philipine Lively Peters and Leon N. Peters. Lee received his early education in...
Henry Wheeler
May 9, 2018
Henry Harold Wheeler, 84, of Wilmington passed away Wednesday, May 9th at the Southwestern Vermont Hospital after a period of failing health. He was born August 27, 1933 in Readsboro to Harold and Rena (Lawson) Wheeler. Henry attended Wilmington Schools and the Vermont Agricultural College in Randolph Center. Henry and Carrie Bartlett were married at the Wilmington Baptist Church...
Ruby Bendig
May 6, 2018
Ruby Mae Bendig, 90, a resident of South Londonderry, passed away May 6, 2018 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Ruby was born in Andover, VT on July 17, 1927 the daughter of the late Harry and Gladys Horton Derby and attended school in Andover and South Londonderry. Ruby worked as a chambermaid in local motels such as the Wiley Inn...
Jean S. Knight
Apr 27, 2018
Jean Scott Knight of Manchester, Vermont passed away on April 27th, 2018, after being diagnosed with cancer just before Christmas. Jean was born in Shoal Lake, Manitoba on October 11, 1938. The daughter of John Dagleish and Jessie Agnes Batty Scott. After attending the University of Manitoba, she joined Air Canada as a stewardess and then as the airline's...
James R. Boyd, Sr.
Apr 23, 2018
James R. Boyd Sr., age 84 passed away peacefully on Monday, April 23, 2018 after an extended hospitalization. Jim was born in Albany, NY on March 26, 1934, the only child of David and Elizabeth (Adams) Boyd. He grew up in Colonie NY and served honorably in the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division in the 1950s. Jim was the...
Wayne Snow
Apr 22, 2018
Wayne S. Snow, 71, of Sunderland passed away April 22, 2018 at Albany Medical Center. He was born on Dec. 5, 1946 in East Dorset, the son of the late Burton J. Snow Sr. and Clara Evelyn (Grout) Snow. Wayne grew up in Sunderland on the family farm. He attended the one room school houses and then Arlington Memorial...
Raymond White Sr.
Apr 22, 2018
Born with a permanent smile on April 22, 1966 in Randolph VT to Matthew & Irene (Huard) White, Raymond White Sr. changed the lives of thousands, if not more. Aside from living in the moment, Ray also resided in West Halifax, Westminster, Westminster West, & Italy. Ray attended Westminster West Elementary & Bellow Falls Union High School where he...
Elizabeth (Betty) Flatley
Apr 20, 2018
Elizabeth (Betty) Flatley passed away April 20th after a long and wonderful Life. Born October, 1923 to Virginia Sperry and Wilder Breckenridge in Cranford N.J.. Betty and her sister Jane, were raised in Paris until the crash of 1929 when they returned to New York City. She attended Edgewood School in Greenwich Connecticut. Betty met and married her boss,...
Dorothy Kent
Apr 19, 2018
Dorothy C. Kent, 78, a resident of East Dorset, passed away April 19, 2018 at her home surrounded by her family. Dorothy was born in Manchester, VT on May 15, 1939 the daughter of the late Karl and Dora Brace Bovey and attended local schools. Dorothy loved her home and cherished times spent with her family. She enjoyed playing...
James Adams, Jr.
Apr 15, 2018
James Chester Adams, Jr., a resident of Jacksonville, VT, passed away April 15, 2018 at the Thompson House Nursing Home in Brattleboro. James was born in South Windham, CT on August 14, 1923 the son of the late James C. and Clara Isabel Allen Adams,attended local schools and was a graduate of the Norwich Free Academy in 1942. James...
Lois Hecht
Apr 15, 2018
Lois Joy (Haenlein) Hecht, a devoted educator who taught hundreds of Dorset's children to read over more than four decades, died April 15, 2018 at the Rutland Regional Medical Center after a long illness. She was 81 years old and a grateful resident of Manchester Center for nearly 50 years. The cause of death was renal failure. Daughter of...
Richard Freeman
Apr 14, 2018
Richard Everett Freeman, 89, a resident of Dorset, VT, passed away Saturday April 14, 2018 at Equinox Terrace after a long struggle with Parkinson's. Dick was born in Morristown, NJ on November 7, 1928 the son of the late Lewis Everett and Claire Giblin Freeman. He graduated from Morristown High School and received his Bachelor's degree from Princeton University....
Joe Mount
Apr 13, 2018
Joe Horn Mount, 82 Born December 18, 1935 in Tampa, Florida Died April 13, 2018 in Bennington, Vermont He is survived by Jan McDonald Mount, his wife of 61 years, five children, Melinda Mount, Jeffrey Mount, Bonnie Jo Mount, Michael Mount, Sarah Mount, and five Grandchildren, Megan Mount, Oliver Mount, Lucy Mount, Sam Mount, and Francesca Mount. He was...
John M. Platek, Jr.
Apr 8, 2018
John M. Platek, Jr., 47, a resident of Halifax, passed away April 8, 2018 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. John was born in Greenfield, MA on August 6, 1970 the son of John M. and Gloria Minelli Platek, Sr. He attended elementary school in Colrain, MA, then Mohawk Regional and Franklin County Technical School. John worked as...
