Dorothy D. Johnson
Nov 9, 2019
Dorothy Louise (Dickinson) Johnson, 93, passed away on Saturday, November 9, 2019 at Ledgecrest Health Center in Berlin, CT. She was the widow of William Douglas Johnson, and they were happily married for over thirty years before he died unexpectedly in 1983. She was born on December 2, 1925 in East Haven, CT to Richard and Helen (Sweet) Dickinson. She...
Pamela Sedgwick Fein
Nov 6, 2019
Pamela Sedgwick Manning Fein, age 91, died November 6, 2019 at the Mary Wade Home in New Haven. Pam was born June 30, 1928 in New York City, the only child of Pamela Brown (Henry) Manning Yancey and Van H. Manning, Jr. The family lived in Forest Hills, Queens until Van's death in 1940. Pam and her mother then moved...
Elizabeth Rusowicz
Nov 5, 2019
Elizabeth Agnes Larkin Rusowicz, 90, of Woodbridge, CT, formerly a resident of Copiague, loving wife of 75 years to the late Edward Rusowicz, passed away on November 5, 2019. She was born in Astoria, NY on April 3, 1929 to the late Patrick and Catherine Brady Larkin. She leaves her children; Claire Rusowicz and her husband John Orazem of Orange,...
Edwin Ban' Piper, Jr.
Oct 30, 2019
Edwin 'Ban' Piper, Jr., age 96, of Hamden, passed away on October 30, 2019. Ban was born in Albany, New York on March 2, 1923; he was the son of the late Edwin Bancroft Piper, Sr. & Helen Benzie Piper. Ban was a WWII Army Veteran, Pearl Harbor survivor. After the war he settled in Tobyhanna, PA, working as Facility...
Minnie Ruth Gibbons
Oct 27, 2019
Minnie Ruth (Carrano) Gibbons passed away peacefully on October 27, 2019 at home with her daughters by her side. Ruth was born in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven to Gennaro and Elizabeth (Hellwig) Carrano. She married the love of her life, the late Robert L. Gibbons, and soon after settled in Woodbridge. With her husband she shared a...
Mary Andersen
Oct 23, 2019
Mary Elizabeth Andersen, 91, of New Haven, loving wife of 50 years to the late David Andersen, passed away peacefully at her home on October 23, 2019. She was born in New Haven on February 22, 1928, a daughter of the late Thomas and Mary Oakley Swingler. Mary will be remembered by her daughter, Mary Alling and her husband James...
Welles T. Brandriff
Oct 22, 2019
Welles Treat Brandriff, husband of Maria (Kukil) Poirier Brandriff and son of the late Milton and Gertrude Brandriff, died peacefully on October 22, 2019 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford at the age of eighty, after a rapid decline due to numerous medical complications. Born March 3, 1939 in New Haven, Welles grew up in Branford where he graduated from...
Edward Williams
Oct 22, 2019
Edward Gilman Williams, 93, of Hamden, husband of the late Barbara Thompson (Russell) Williams, passed away on October 22, 2019 at Benchmark Senior Living at Hamden. He was born in Ware, MA on April 11, 1926 to the late Carl Emmons and Susan Helen (Gilman) Williams. He leaves his son Thomas Clarke Williams and his wife Linda of New Canaan,...
Patricia Riccitelli
Oct 18, 2019
Patricia Riccitelli, 75, of Hamden, wife of the late Carmen Riccitelli (Ret. Dep. Chief HPD), passed away on October 18, 2019 at CT Hospice, Branford. She was born in New Haven on April 6, 1944, a daughter of the late William and Dorothy Calamita Hallisey. Loving mother of Amy Laydon (Sean) and Mindi Wydra (Thomas, Ret. Chief HPD). She also...
Stina J. Neal
Oct 18, 2019
Stina J. Neal, 95, passed away peacefully at her home in Cheshire on October 18, 2019. Born in Frandefors, Dalsland, Sweden on March 8, 1924 to the late Carl and Olga Larson Josephson. Stina was predeceased by her husband, Elmer E. Neal, Jr. in 1980, her brothers, Nils (Lillian) Josephson and Ernest (Carole) Josephson, and her daughter, Elizabeth E. Neal...
Paul D. Hudson, Jr.
Oct 17, 2019
MERIDEN-Paul Douglas Hudson Jr., 92, passed away peacefully surrounded by the love of his family on October 17, 2019. He is predeceased by his parents Paul and Margaret Hudson, his sister Doris Mayo, and his parents-in-law John and Mae Conte. Paul is survived by his loving wife Mary (Marie) who he has been married to for 59 years; and his...
Lillian Rosadini
Oct 17, 2019
Lillian Rosadini, 104, of Hamden, passed away peacefully on October 17, 2019. She was born in Avon on June 19, 1915 to the late Sabatino and Maria Buracchi Salvadori. At age 7, her family moved to the house her father built in Mt. Carmel, where she lived for 97 years until her death. Lillian took pride in being a housewife,...
Edith Eigner
Oct 16, 2019
Edith Maria Hage Eigner, 92, passed away at her home in Woodbridge on October 16, 2019. She was born on Long Island, N.Y. on October 5, 1927, the only child of Henry and Elisabeth Hage. She married David Maxon Eigner at age 20, and they settled in Wallingford. After raising her four children, she became owner and operator of Wig...
Edna Virginia Johnson
Oct 15, 2019
Edna 'Virginia' (Vickrey) Johnson, 99, of Hamden passed away at St. Raphael's Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital on October 15, 2019. She was the wife of the late Robert E. Johnson. Born in McKenzie, AL September 18, 1920, she was a daughter of the late Charles Derry Vickrey and Olga Jay (Huggins) Vickrey. After growing up in McKenzie, AL, Virginia...
Leonard M. Fazzone
Oct 15, 2019
Leonard M. 'Lenny' Fazzone, 61, passed away peacefully on October 15, 2019. Born in New Haven on February 19, 1958 to the late Marshall and Lorraine Conroy Fazzone; Lenny grew up in New Haven and also spent a good amount of time traveling back and forth from South Carolina. He was a jack of all trades and knowledgeable in all...
Lydia Rausch Krier
Oct 14, 2019
Lydia Rausch Krier, 95, a resident of Elim Park Baptist Home in Cheshire since 2004, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, October 14th, 2019 after a long illness. A lifelong resident of Connecticut, she was born in New Haven on July 19th, 1924. Lydia married the late Stanley Robertson Krier July 16th, 1949 at the...
Joan Deleo
Oct 14, 2019
Joan DeLeo of Guilford passed away on October 14, 2019. Joan was born in New Haven on February 13, 1934, the daughter of the late Arthur and Gertrude (Lynch) Vreeland. She graduated from Hillhouse High School then attended the Elm City Beauty Academy. Joan was a longtime resident of West Haven, a member of the West Haven Council of Arts...
Betty A. Corso
Oct 12, 2019
Betty A. Malatesta Corso, 76, of Hamden passed away on October 12, 2019 at her home. She was born in New Haven on November 5, 1942, daughter of Elva Malatesta and the late John Malatesta. Betty is survived by her son John Corso; daughter Diana Dumond and her husband Bill Deneen; and sister Marge Carrano and her husband Frank. She...
Geraldine Frei
Oct 11, 2019
Geraldine Frost Nye Frei, originally of North Haven, a resident at the Whitney Center since 2002, passed away peacefully after a brief illness at the age of 95. Gerry grew up in North Haven when it was still a very small town with many farming families and orchards. She graduated from Lasell Junior College and met her husband when he...
Diane Raccio
Oct 10, 2019
Diane M. (Signor) Raccio, 65, of Wallingford, passed away on October 10, 2019. Born in New Haven on August 15, 1954, she was the daughter of Josephine (DeLeonardo) Signor of Branford and the late Stephen Signor, Sr. Diane is also survived by her husband Frank J. Raccio; her daughter Lori R. Blanchette and her husband David of Wallingford; her son...
