Memorial Funeral Homes Obituaries

Apr 1, 2002

Frank J. Trudell, Jr., 73, of 59 Everett Street Middletown, died Monday, April 1, 2002 at home.He was the husband of Anna Cruz Trudell. Born in Roxbury, MA on October 22, 1928, he was the son of the late Frank and Grace Wentworth Trudell Sr.Mr. Trudell was a Rhode Island National Guard for 10 years and worked for 33 years...

Mar 29, 2002

Frances Hedges Parsons, 68, of 25 Ledge Road Jamestown, RI formerly of Farmington, CT, died Friday, March 29, 2002 at home. She was the wife of John Bradford Parsons. Born in Montclair, NJ on May 22, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Frances Breadon Hedges.Mrs. Parsons was a member of the Conanicut Yacht Club in...

Mar 17, 2002

Arthur S. North of 75 Water Street Portsmouth died March 17th at Rhode Island Hospital after a month long battle with pneumonia. Mr. North was the son of the late Carl and Helen Ward North and is survived by his wife Edna Nunes North.He was the Foreign Language Department Head at Middletown High School and taught German. He received his...

Mar 11, 2002

Alfred Dennis ?A.D.? Silvia, III, 18, of 8 Leal Terrace Newport, died Monday, March 11, 2002 at home.Born in Newport, RI on October 7, 1983, he was the son of Alfred Dennis ?Al? Silvia Jr. of Newport and Maria L. Escobar Silvia-Deveau of Newport. Mr. Silvia attended Cluny School, Bishop Connolly School, where he was on the Soccer Team and...

Mar 1, 2002

Kimberly Margaret Zerbus-Jacome, 35, of 14 Sunset Avenue Portsmouth, died Friday, March 1, 2002 at home.Born in Fall River, MA on April 28, 1966, she was the daughter of Joseph G. and Verna Lawton Zerbus of Portsmouth.Kimberly was a graduate of Portsmouth High Scool. She then went on to Diamond Regional School of Nursing where she received her LPN. She...

Feb 17, 2002

Wayne N. Barretto, 32, of 408 Park Ave Portsmouth, died unexpectedly Monday, February 18, 2002 at Newport Hospital in Newport, RI. He was the son of Mary Correira Barretto, of Portsmouth and the late Joseph Barretto, Sr. For the last 15 years, Mr. Barretto worked as a carpenter with his brother at Custom Building in Portsmouth, doing home renovations and...

Feb 14, 2002

Chauncey Ffoulke Dewey , 69 of ?Felicity? at 604 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, died at his home on Thursday, February 14, 2002. He was the husband of Elise Archer Dewey. He previously made his home at 4725 Quebec Street, N.W., Washington DC. Born in New York, NY, on May 30, 1932, he was the son of the late Albert B. and...

Feb 6, 2002

Robert Ellice Hobbs passed away suddenly on February 6, 2002 at William Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, he was the youngest of seven children of the late Pleasant Hobbs and Mary Elizabeth Bolling. Robert was a career serviceman who honorably served in the U.S. Navy as a Quartermaster for 20 years. A veteran of the Korean...

Feb 4, 2002

Portsmouth, RI - Stephanie Erin Lewis, 28, of 966 East Main Road, Portsmouth, RI, died Monday, February 4, 2002 at Broward General Hospital, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Born in Naples, Italy on Apr. 18, 1973, she was the daughter of James Martin and Lynda Mikki Heathcock Lewis of Portsmouth.Miss Lewis was a 1991 graduate of Middletown High School where she was...

Mar 28, 2001

Portsmouth, RI - Clifton Morrel, 73, of 29 Linda Avenue, Portsmouth, RI, died Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at Veterans Administration Hospital, Providence, RI.He was the husband of Charlotte Gagnon Morrel. Born in Fall River, MA on March 18, 1928, he was the son of the late John and Esther Covel Morrel.Mr. Morrel had worked as a meat cutter for New...

Jan 1, 2001

Portsmouth, RI - Margaret P McDonald, 87, died Sunday, January 9, 2011 at St. Annes Hospital, Fall River, MA. She was the wife of the late Thomas G McDonald.Born in Fall River, MA on Feb. 15, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Francis and Margaret Quinn Murphy.Mrs. McDonald loved playing cards, especially the game pitch, and was an...

Jan 1, 2001

Middletown, RI - Robert MacLean Biggy Bigliety, 58, of Bloom Court, Middletown, RI, died unexpectedly Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at home. He will be sadly missed by his family and many, many good friends.He was the husband of the late Deborah C. LeMay Bigliety of Los Angeles, CA and the former husband of Bridgette Bestoso Garcia of Satellite Beach, FL.Born...

Jan 1, 2001

Catherine M. Purcell, 93, of 10 Sherwood Road, Portsmouth, RI, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. She was the wife of the late Warren R. Purcell.Born in Holyoke, MA on February 22, 1915, she was the daughter of the late Frank W. and Mary McCarthy Higgins.Mrs. Purcell was a graduate of Simmons College, a member of...

Jan 1, 2001

Portsmouth, RI - Mary T. Carriero Mendonca, 93, and George A. Mendonca 101, of Coreys Lane, Portsmouth, RI, died Tuesday, February 1, 2011 and Wednesday, February 2, 2011, at Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. Mrs. Mendonca was born in Portsmouth, RI on August 21, 1917, and was the daughter of the late Jose and Mary Pimental Carreiro, one of five children....

Aug 7, 2000

Antone J. SilviaMiddletown, - Antone J. Tony Silvia, 57, of 170 Honeyman Avenue, Middletown, died Monday August 7, 2000 at South County Hospital Wakefield, RI. He was the husband of Janice Ann Breen Silvia.Born in Fall River, MA on November 22, 1942, he was the son of the late Antone M. Silvia and the Late S. Connie Barboza Silvia.Mr. Silvia...

Jun 19, 1998

Louis Joseph Durand Jr., 43, of Middletown, died June 19 1998 at Newport Hospital. He was the son of Zulmira Almedia Durand and the late Louis Joseph Durand.Mr. Durand Jr. was in the United States Navy during the Vietnam Era from 1974 to June of 1975. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service from 1976 to 1977 in Providence and...

Sep 1, 1996

Jeffrey Gordon Sweeney, 44, of Newport, RI, passed away on September 1, 1996, in Newport Hospital.Born on June 21, 1952 in Newport, RI, he was the son of Gordon J. and Ellen (Quigley) Sweeney.Jeff was a lifelong resident of Newport, a member of the Newport Elks and St. Marys Church. He worked for various Hotels in Newport and Florida. Jeff...

Aug 14, 1995

Portsmouth, RI - Christopher Jay Simmons, 38, of 63 Black Point Lane, Portsmouth, died at home on August 14, 1995. Born in Burbank, CA on May 11, 1957, he was the son of Constance L. DeCotis Simmons of Portsmouth, RI and the late Christopher J. Simmons, III. Jay was a graduate of Rogers High School. He worked for Nunes Motor...

Jun 1, 1940

Roberta Lee Gooch, age 79, of Middletown died on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 after a long battle with Parkinsons Disease, at Blenheim Newport Assisted Living.Roberta was born June 1, 1940 in Decatur, IL. She is the daughter of the late Ernest Bernard Davies and Jennie Afton (Clark) Davies. She married Robert Hynson Gooch, PhD on March 25, 1967. She was...

Don Palen, Captain USN (Ret), died on December 31st, 2020 at his home in Middletown, RI. He was 82 years old. Born in Greenwich Connecticut to Cora and Clyde Palen, Don grew up in Cos Cob and was a graduate of Greenwich High School. He attended Union College for one year before enlisting in the Navy. After three years in...