Laurie Patricia Hall
Jan 9, 2010
Meriden - Laurie Patricia Hall died suddenly at home, Saturday, January 9, 2009. She was born September 6, 1962, the fourth daughter of Bruce Hall and the late Joan Fearn Hall. Laurie worked in the insurance industry after graduating from Middletown H.S., and in the recent past had used her self-taught culinary skills in several area eateries, most recently The...
Hattie Lorraine Spence
Jan 6, 2010
Hattie Lorraine Spence, 58, beloved wife of 36 years to Arthur Spence, of Niantic, passed away at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital on January 6, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Snow Hill, NC on August 18, 1951 to the late Owen and Hattie Whitfield Taylor. Besides her husband, Hattie leaves her daughters, Leslie Spence of...
Gloria Dioguardi Cerreta
Jan 5, 2010
Gloria (Dioguardi) Cerreta, age 89, died Tuesday, January 5, 2010 after a brief illness. She was born on November 7, 1920 to Louis and Mary (Cianci) Dioguardi and was a life-long resident of Meriden. Gloria was a member of the First Baptist Church. Prior to joining that congregation, she was a member of the church her grandfather helped to found,...
James Warren Nelson
Jan 5, 2010
James Warren Nelson, 92, of Wallingford, devoted husband of 54 years to Adele Turner Nelson, passed away Jan. 5, 2010 in the Masonic Home. He was born in Hartford, April 20, 1917 a son of the late James C. and Annie Mae Weeks Nelson and had resided in Orange for 40 years before moving to Wallingford in 1999. James was...
Bernard John 'Bernie' Fitch, Jr.
Jan 5, 2010
Bernard John 'Bernie' Fitch Jr. passed away Jan. 5, 2010 at St. Raphael Hospital. Bernie is survived by his mother Frances Salvati Fitch, his sister Kelly M. Fitch & his niece Erin Fitch all who resided with him on George Street in Hamden. Bernie was born in New Haven on Oct. 2, 1966. He was predeceased by his father, Bernard...
Theodore 'Ted' Flowers
Jan 4, 2010
Theodore (Ted) Robert Flowers, 82, of Mt. Carmel, Hamden, died on Monday, January 4, 2010 at Gaylord Hospital. He was the beloved husband of 57 years to Eleanor Flowers. Born in the Bronx, December 6, 1927, son of the late Dr. Hiland and Dorothy Flowers. Mr. Flowers served with the U.S. Army Occupational Forces in Japan, following World War II....
Irene M. Chase
Jan 3, 2010
Meriden - Irene M. Chase, 78, wife of Robert Chase died on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at MidState Medical Center. She was born August 12, 1931 in New Britian, CT, a daughter of the late John and Mary (Kata) Gazda. She was a longtime employee of SNET and upon retiring she and Robert moved to Florida and enjoyed traveling and...
Michael T. Lipcan Sr.
Dec 31, 2009
Lipcan, Michael T. Sr. Michael Thomas Lipcan, Sr, age 94, of South Shore Dr. East Haven, formerly of Branford, passed away December 31st, 2009 at The Connecticut Hospice in Branford. Married on Nov. 11, 1939 Michael was the husband of Anna H. Lewandowski Lipcan, who passed away on February 14, 2009. Born on March 25, 1915 in New Haven he...
Emily A. Wilson
Dec 31, 2009
Emily A. Wilson, 87, beloved wife for 63 years to the late Donald C. Wilson passed away Dec. 31, 2009 in Baltimore MD after a brief illness. Mrs. Wilson resided in Ashlar Village in Wallingford since 2007, but was formerly a long-time resident in Bethany. She was born in New Haven, the daughter of the late James and Myrtle Braxton...
Ethel I. Fudala
Dec 29, 2009
Meriden - Ethel I. Fudala, 88, wife of the late Albin M. Fudala, died on Tuesday, Decmeber 29, 2009 at The Village at Kensington Place in Meriden, CT. She was born April 10, 1921 in Manchester, NH a daughter of the late Paul E. and Ida (Steiner) Hermsdorf. She graduated from Manchester West High School. Ethel was retired as a...
Maurice L. Ward
Dec 29, 2009
Maurice L. Ward, 90, of West Haven, passed away on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 in Hamden. He was the husband of Amuleitha Christmas Ward and is survived by a daughter Gracy P. Brown, also of West Haven, brother of Berthram of British West Indies, grandfather of Zaida, Lucy, Gracy A., Winston and Ina, great-grandfather of Antonio, Dealyce, Nalani and Lucas....
Janet Grace Kelsey
Dec 28, 2009
Janet Grace Kelsey, 92, of Hamden, passed away on December 28, 2009 after a long illness. She was born in West Haven on November 28, 1917 to the late A.B. Hall and Eva Douglas Hall and was the granddaughter of A.B. Hall Sr., founder of Hall Benedict Drug Co. on Orange St. in New Haven. Janet was the wife of...
William Bill' E. Johnston, Jr.
Dec 28, 2009
On December 28, 2009, New Haven lost a champion of the people. William 'Bill' E. Johnston, Jr., age 72, passed away at Gaylord Hospital in Wallingford after a long battle with respiratory illness. Born in 'Sugar Hill' Harlem, NYC to William E. Johnston, Sr. and Ernestine Steele Johnston, Bill graduated from Hillhouse High School and studied Social Science at the...
Richard J. Hyman
Dec 27, 2009
Hyman, Richard J. In Scottsdale, AZ, December 27, 2009. Richard Joseph Hyman of Windsor Rd., North Haven. Husband of Suzanne Hagedorn Hyman. Born in New Haven on July 10, 1927, son of the late Isadore and Ruth Perlisky Hyman. Having gone to Hillhouse High School and Hopkins Grammar School, he attended Dartmouth College, Class of 1949. He served in the...
Emil E. Hermann
Dec 24, 2009
Meriden- Emil E. Hermann, 94 husband of the late Amy (Berry) Hermann died on Thursday, December 24, 2009 at Miller Memorial Community. He was born August 31, 1915 in Bristol, CT a son of the late Theodore and Leonida (Fink) Hermann. He was a machinist at Pratt & Whitney until retiring. Emil was a parishioner of St. John Lutheran Church...
Anna L. Yale
Dec 23, 2009
Anna L. Yale, 88, wife of the late Edwin V. Yale died on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at Masonic Healthcare Center, Wallingford. She was born June 9, 1921 in Wallingford daughter of the late Philomena Gammerino Donofrio . Anna was a avid bingo player, where ever their was a game she was there. She is survived by three sons and...
Martha (Beebe) Elder
Dec 22, 2009
Martha (Beebe) Elder of Hamden Hills Drive, Hamden and Mansfield Grove, East Haven, died peacefully on December 22, 2009 at The Connecticut Hospice in Branford after a brief illness. Born on September 17, 1920, she was the widow of Robert W. Elder and the daughter of the late Clarence and Anna Wartman Beebe. Mrs. Elder is survived by children John,...
Anna Janczura
Dec 22, 2009
Meriden - Anna Janczura, 88, wife of the late Joseph J. Janczura died on Tuesday December 22, 2009 at Westfield Care and Rehab. She was born January 4, 1921 in Rockfall, CT a daughter of the late Paul and Anna (Ptak) Cichon and moved to Meriden two years after she was married. Anna was a parishioner of St. Stanislaus Church...
Jane Frances Cusack Manning
Dec 18, 2009
Manning, Jane Frances Cusack In West Haven, Dec. 18, 2009, Jane Frances Cusack Manning, age 91, formerly of New Haven, mother of Nancy J. Cusack-Smith, Mary Jane Cusack and Donald F. Cusack all of West Haven, step-mother of Kathleen Wark of East Haven, John Manning, Jr. of Madison and sister of Virginia Angus of Cheshire. Also survived by 11grandchildren, 14...
Ethel J. Whalen
Dec 16, 2009
Ethel J. Whalen, age 89, of Vineyard Road, Hamden, passed away Dec. 16, 2009 at her residence. Ethel is the wife of Joseph T. Whalen, Sr.; mother of Linnea Whalen of Milford and Joseph T. Whalen, Jr. of Hamden and sister of the late Hildur Turner & Henry Anderson. Ethel was born in New Haven on October 18, 1920, a...
