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Florence Murray
Mar 28, 2004
Newport, RI - Florence Kerins Murray, 87, of 2 Kay Street Newport, a retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Associate Justice, died Sunday, March 28, 2004 at Newport Hospital Newport, RI.Justice Murray was the wife of the late Paul F. Murray. A practicing attorney for fifty years and the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1977 to...
Emily R. Freitas
Mar 27, 2004
Middletown, - Emily R. Freitas, 97, of 113 Renfrew Avenue Middletown, died Saturday, March 27, 2004 at Heatherwood Nursing And Subacute Center Newport, RI.. She was the wife of the late Antone Freitas. Born in Azores, Portugal on April 26, 1906, she was the daughter of the late Francisco and Maria Raposa Rezendes. Mrs. Freitas was a communicant of Jesus...
Robert William Owens
Mar 27, 2004
Middletown, RI - Robert William Owens, 84, of 164 Boulevard Middletown, died Saturday, March 27, 2004 at Newport Hospital Newport, RI.He was the husband of Ruth Evans Owens. Born in New York, NY on November 26, 1919, he was the son of the late Harold B. Daisy Koschny Owens Kennedy. Mr. Owens entered into the Civil Service in 1940 as...
Frances Marie Semonelli
Mar 27, 2004
Newport, RI - Frances M. DennySemonelli, 75, of Bellevue Avenue Newport, formerly of Chapel Street Newport, died Saturday, March 27, 2004 at Heatherwood Nursing And Subacute Center Newport, RI. She was the former wife of the late Pasquale ?Sam? Semonelli. Born in Philadelphia, PA on June 9, 1928, she was the daughter of the late James and Margaret Augusta Denny....
Joseph Carl Medeiros
Mar 27, 2004
Newport, RI - Joseph Carl Medeiros, 87, of 7 Balsam Street Newport, died Saturday, March 27, 2004 at Forest Farm Health Care Center Middletown, RI. He was the husband of Hermina ?Minnie? Lopes Medeiros. Born in Newport, RI, on May 20, 1916, he was the son of the late Virgino Medeiros and Maria Sardinha Medeiros. Mr. Medeiros served in the...
Charles Steven Soliozy Jr
Mar 26, 2004
Newport, RI - Charles Steven Soliozy, Jr., 47, of Heatherwood Health Care Center Newport, formerly of 24 Red Cross Avenue, died Friday, March 26, 2004 at Heatherwood Nursing And Subacute Center Newport, RI. Born in Newport, RI on February 6, 1957, he was the son of Charles Steven and Sadie Hidson Soliozy of Newport, RI. Mr. Soliozy was a 1975...
Louise Kazanjian
Mar 26, 2004
Newport, Louise T. Kazanjian, of Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI, a civic leader and community leader in Rhode Island, died in Newport on Friday, March 26. She was 86, and had suffered for many years from Alzheimer?s Disease. Born in Brookline, MA, she attended Simmons College. She married Powel H. Kazanjian, the president of the well-known John H. Kazanjian Co. on...
Michelle Collene Bledsoe
Mar 24, 2004
Portsmouth, RI - Michelle Collene Bledsoe, 56, of 42 Lepes Road Portsmouth, RI, died Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at Newport Hospital Newport, RI. Born in Kentfield, CA on January 31, 1948, she was the daughter of Dorice AndersonZauss Aull of Newport, RI, the late William Zauss and the stepdaughter of the late Arthur Aull. Ms. Bledsoe was a Logistics Management...
Louise Frances Woodall
Mar 23, 2004
Middletown, RI - Louise F. Sherwood Woodall, 92, formerly of Blenheim Newport Middletown, and Reservoir Road, Middletown, died Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at Heatherwood Nursing And Subacute Center Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late Marvin E. ?Woody? Woodall. Born in Newport, RI on May 15, 1911, she was the daughter of the late John and Helena Dowd...
Francis Medeiros Jordan
Mar 23, 2004
Middletown, RI - Francis Medeiros Jordan, 82, of 813 Forest Park Middletown, died Tuesday, March 23, 2004 at home.He was the husband of Mae A. Green Jordan. Born in Portsmouth, RI on June 23, 1921, he was the son of the late Antone and Julia Almeida Jordan. Mr. Jordan was a veteran of World War II serving in the Army....
Dorothea G. Sullivan
Mar 21, 2004
Newport, - Dorothea G. Sullivan, of 37 Thurston Avenue, Newport, died Sunday, March 21, 2004, at the Newport Hospital, Newport, RI.Born in Newport, RI, she was the daughter of the late Cornelius and Anne Shine Sullivan. Ms. Sullivan had lived in Boston, MA, for several years. She was a Graduate of Rogers High School and the Boston Clerical School. She...
Mary Dias
Mar 21, 2004
Newport, - Mary ?gigi? Hammett Dias, 91, of Newport, died Sunday, March 21, 2004 at home. She was the wife of the late Antonio V. Dias. Born in Newport, RI on Nov. 21, 1912, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Whilhemina Hammett. Mrs. Dias was a communicant of St. Josephs Church where she was a member of...
Lynda Ruth Chafton
Mar 21, 2004
Newport, RI - Lynda Ruth Chafton, 47, of 156 Park Holm Newport, died Sunday, March 21, 2004 at Newport Hospital Newport, RI.She was the wife of Raymond Tillery. Born in Boston, MA on April 1, 1956, she was the daughter of Ethel May Sargent Chafton of Portsmouth, RI and the late Claywell Moss Chafton. Mrs. Chafton was a sales clerk...
Ruth Margaret Ellis
Mar 20, 2004
Newport, - Ruth Margaret Herring Ellis, 91, of 235 Gibbs Avenue, Newport, died Saturday, March 20, 2004 at St. Clare Home Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late Edward Norman Ellis. Born in Newport, RI on Oct. 22, 1912, she was the daughter of the late Frank Herring and Margaret Qualters Herring. Mrs. Ellis worked at the former...
Mary Elizabeth Paschoal
Mar 19, 2004
Middletown, RI - Mary E. Paschoal, 89, formerly of Forest Park, Middletown, died Friday, March 19, 2004 at Grand Islander Health Care Center, Middletown, RI. Born in Middletown, RI on April 11, 1914, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Freitas Pasquale. Miss Paschoal worked in private service as a housekeeper for many years for many Newport...
Raymond Ephrem Pruneau Sr
Mar 19, 2004
Raymond Ephrem Pruneau, Sr. Middletown, - Raymond Ephrem Pruneau, Sr., 66, of 85 Maple Avenue, Middletown, formerly of Danbury, CT and Cape Cod, MA, died Friday, March 19, 2004 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. He was the husband of Anite Kovach Pruneau. Born in Quebec, Canada, on Jul. 27, 1937, he was the son of Yvette Roy Pruneau of Sherbrook,...
Paul Lawrence Massey
Mar 19, 2004
Newport, RI - Paul Lawrence Massey, 60, of 25 Burnside Ave Newport, died Friday, March 19, 2004 at home. Born in Newport, RI on March 6, 1944, he was the son of the late Elva Massey. Mr. Massey was a member of the former Outer World Bowling League and was an avid darts player, active in many leagues and tournaments...
Abbie Lawton Bryant
Mar 19, 2004
Abbie Preece Lawton Bryant Middletown, RI - Abbie Preece Lawton Bryant, 87, of 28 Concord Drive Middletown, died Friday, March 19, 2004 at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI after a lengthy illness.She was the wife of the late James Edwin Bryant. Born in Newport, RI on December 7, 1916, she was the daughter of the late George Francis and Alice Greenwood...
Barbara Briggs
Mar 18, 2004
Portsmouth, RI - Barbara Briggs, 85, of 2087 East Main Road Portsmouth, a Lifelong Resident of Portsmouth, died Thursday, March 18, 2004 at John Clarke Nursing Center Middletown, RI.Born in Portsmouth, RI on December 3, 1918, she was the daughter of the late Mervin C. and Marguerite Holman Briggs. Miss. Briggs was a 1936 graduate of Rogers High School, a...
Alice Massed
Mar 16, 2004
Newport, RI - Alice DeCosta Massed, 77, of 23 Hoppin Road, Newport, died Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at Village House Newport, RI.She was the wife of Michael George Massed. Born in Newport, RI on April 10, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Antone and Georgianna Pacheco DeCosta. Mrs. Massed worked for the city of Newport in the city...
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