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Joanne Borden Glancy
Jun 18, 2015
Joanne Borden Glancy (87), born on April 20, 1928 in Lynn, MA, passed away on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at Village House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Newport, RI, after a lengthy illness. She was the daughter of the late Philip and Sarah (Varrell) Borden, of Marblehead, MA and Greenwich, CT. She was a direct descendant of Phillip Shearman (Sherman) and...
Jose Perreira Aguiar
Jun 18, 2015
Jose Perreira Aguiar, 88, of Middletown died Thursday, June 18, 2015, surrounded by his loving family at Silver Creek Manor in Bristol, RI. Mr. Aguiar was born September 12, 1926 in San Miguel Azores. He is the son of the late Antonio and the late Augustina (Perreira) Aguiar. He was married to the late Maria Isabel Cabral for over 60...
Patrick Ryan
Jun 15, 2015
Patrick John Ryan, 69 of Portsmouth died Monday, June 15, 2015 at Newport Hospital in Newport, RI, after a long illness.Mr. Ryan was born on July 26, 1945 in New Hartford, NY, the son of the late Joseph and Sara (Scott) Ryan. He was a long time employee at Raytheon Co. in Portsmouth and a member of the VFW.He is...
Andrea K. (Daily) Mcintosh
Jun 14, 2015
Andrea Kathleen (Daily) McIntosh passed away unexpectedly on June 12, 2015, at the age of 48. Andrea is survived by her three children Shelby, Laura, and Caroline McIntosh and their father Murray "Mac" McIntosh of North Kingstown. She is also survived by her father, Arthur Daily and her siblings Matthew, Chris, Alison, and Paul. She is preceded in death by...
Helen E. Shamka
Jun 12, 2015
Helen E. Shamka, age 97, of Portsmouth, died Friday, June 12, 2015, at Village House Nursing Home of Newport, RI. Mrs. Shamka was born September 13, 1917, in New York, NY, the daughter of the late Peter and Margaret (Waletitsch) Michelitsch. She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, John Shamka, in 1990. Helen was a homemaker and also...
Harold "Zeke" M. Cole Jr
Jun 12, 2015
Harold "Zeke" M. Cole, Jr., 85, of Tiverton died peacefully in his sleep on June 12, 2015. He was the husband of Doris A. (Austin) Cole.Born on August 13, 1929 in Johnston, RI, he was the son of the late Harold M. and Olivine (St. Andre) Cole. Mr. Cole went to Maine at the age of 14, which ignited his...
Virginia J. (Sciortino) Macmulkin
Jun 11, 2015
Virginia Sciortino MacMulkin, a long-time resident of Newport, died Thursday the 11th of June at the Grand Islander Center.Born in 1920 in Long Hill, CT, Virginia was the eighth of nine children born to Michelangelo and Rose (Scaduto) Sciortino. With her sister, Virginia co-owned and operated a hair salon for almost thirty years. She enjoyed cooking, music, and history, and...
Alice M. Loftus
Jun 10, 2015
Alice M. (Caron) Loftus of Newport died on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 after a short and sudden illness surrounded by her children whom she called the "Firehouse Five". Alice was 82 years young. She was the wife of the late George W. Loftus of Newport and was a mother of five, grandmother of eleven, and great grandmother of nine, waiting...
Ella Mae Jones
Jun 9, 2015
Ella Mae (Woodley) Jones, 88, of Newport died Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Newport Hospital.Born on February 23, 1927 in Greensville County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Rayfield and Alice (Woodley) Jaratt.Ella worked for Raytheon for 25 years as a Security Guard. After her time at Raytheon she worked various jobs; a Real Estate License, a Nurse's...
Dolores Patricia Cinotti
Jun 9, 2015
Dolores Patricia (Cordeiro) Cinotti, 81, of Portsmouth died Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Newport Hospital.She was the wife of the late Victor Anthony Cinotti.Born on July 17, 1933 in Portsmouth, RI, she was the daughter of the late Manuel and Bella (Alfonso) Cordeiro. Mrs. Cinotti had worked as an administrative assistant at JT OConnell for 18 years, retiring in 1997....
Geraldine A. Hamilton-Smith
Jun 8, 2015
Geraldine Ann (Craig) Hamilton-Smith, 66, of Portsmouth passed away Monday, June 8, 2015 at Forest Farm Health Care Center of Middletown. She was the wife of William S. Hamilton-Smith. Mrs. Hamilton-Smith was born in Fall River, the daughter of Russell Craig of Portsmouth and the late Edna (Silvia) CraigGerry worked for 22 years as a secretary for Raytheon and for...
Edith Streeter
Jun 6, 2015
Edith G. Streeter, 96, of Newport, RI died peacefully with family by her side on June 6, 2015 at St. Clare's Nursing Home. She was the wife of the late Lawrence E. Streeter. She was born on July 16, 1918 in Newport, RI to the late Lena Davis and Owen Higgins. Edith raised both her children in Newport. During World...
Jesse S. Perry
Jun 6, 2015
Jesse S. Perry, age 98, of Middletown, died Saturday, June 6, 2015 at Village House Nursing Home of Newport, RI. Jesse was born October 11, 1916 in Newport, the son of the late Manuel and Maria (Jacome) Perry. He was married to Elsie M. Silvia for 69 years. Jesse served in WWII in the US Army, participating in battles in...
Russell James Dufault
Jun 5, 2015
Russell J. Dufault, 74, of Portsmouth, passed on Friday, June 5, 2015 at home in Portsmouth. Russell was born March 15, 1941 in Fall River, MA. He is the son of the late Adelaide and the late Evelyn (Martin) Dufault.He was happily married for 54 years, to his wife, Gertrude (Trudy) Ann Conforti.Russell was an avid golfer and was a...
Robert V. Edick
Jun 5, 2015
Newport, RI. - Robert V. (Doc) Edick, 88, of 53 Ellery Ave, Middletown, RI, died Friday, June 5, 2015 in Newport hospital.Robert, known to most all of his colleagues and friends as Doc, was born in Dolgeville, NY at 29 E. Faville Ave. on February 15, 1927. Having lost both parents (George Edick Harriet Shanahan) at an early age, he...
Helen Sanches
Jun 3, 2015
Helen Sanches, 93, of Newport died Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at Village House Nursing Home of Newport, RI. Born on February 27, 1922 in Newport, RI, she was the daughter of the late John and Maria (Morinho) Sanches. Helen worked as a billing clerk for the Newport Hospital from 1962 to 1987. She also worked for County Food Market on...
Emmanuel "Mike" Janaros
Jun 1, 2015
Emmanuel "Mike" Janaros passed away Monday June 1, 2015 at Newport Hospital surrounded by his family. He was known to many as Mike. He was born in Manchester, NH on November 13, 1916 to Peter (Panagiotis) Janaros and Sofia Viakrelis both originally from Mytilene, Greece. Mike was 98 years old.Mike Janaros lived in Newport from the time he was three...
Iraida Panela
Jun 1, 2015
Iraida (Alvarez) Panela, 96, of Portsmouth died Monday, June 1, 2015 at Warren Skilled Nursing Center of Warren, RI. She was the wife of the late Bob A. Panela.Born on October 3, 1918 in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, she was the daughter of the late Geraldo Alvarez and Felina (Lopez) Alvarez.Mrs. Panela was a communicant of St. Barnabas Church. She enjoyed...
Harry Wayne Beaumont
Jun 1, 2015
Harry Wayne Beaumont, 71, of Newport died at Newport hospital in the arms of his wife, daughter and grandson on Monday, June 1, 2015, after a short battle with brain cancer. Born on April 14, 1944 in Pittsburgh, PA, he was the son of the late Eugene E. and Pearl M. (Hofstetter) Beaumont. Harry attended Pittsburgh schools and graduated from...
Pauline C. Butterworth
May 31, 2015
Tiverton, RI - Pauline C. (Witkowski) Butterworth, 63, died on Sunday, May 31, 2015, at her home in Tiverton, RI.Born on January 29, 1952, in Fall River, MA, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Irene (Kaczenski) Witkowski.Pauline was the former proprietor of the Little Corner Store in Portsmouth, where she and Morgan were partners for many years...
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