Jane Quintard Clark Byers, 1925-2020
Jane Quintard Clark Byers, 94, of Hamden and Norfolk, died Jan. 2 at Yale New Haven Hospital after a brief illness. Jane Byers was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Great Neck, Long Island, the daughter of the late Cyrus Clark II and Jane Hayden Quintard. She was a graduate of Great Neck High School, the […]
Charles Lenhart Fidlar
Charles L. Fidlar died on Dec. 14, 2019, at his home in Norfolk, Conn. with family by his side.Charles was born in Terre Haute, Ind., and moved to Hartford and Windsor, Conn. as a youth. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 17 years before settling in Norfolk. Charles graduated from Loomis School […]
Dorothea (Dede) Alford, 1949-2019
Alford Dorothea Blakeslee Alford (Dede) passed away on Dec. 5, 2019, in Cambridge, Mass., after a series of illnesses. She was born on Nov. 9, 1949, in Winsted, Conn., and had a lifelong love for Norfolk, spending many months and years on Doolittle Lake and in Norfolk itself. She also traveled widely, living in Tokyo […]
Lois “Bisi” Starkey, 1923-2019
Lois “Bisi” Starkey (MacMurray) of Lexington, Mass., formerly of Brookline, Mass., and a lifelong summer resident of Norfolk, died on Nov. 5 from complications from a recent stroke. Bisi was born in 1923 to Lois Goodnow MacMurray and John V. A. MacMurray, who served as a diplomat in the U.S. foreign service between 1907 and 1944. Her father’s diplomatic career […]
Remembering Larkin Hasbrouck
Larkin Mead Hasbrouck died at age 86 on Oct. 22, 2019. He was the first-born child of Richard and Katherine Hasbrouck of Bronxville, N.Y. He had two younger sisters, Tryntje and Jane. Larkin’s youth was spent between Philadelphia, Penn., where he graduated from Friends Central High School and Norfolk, Conn., where his family had their summer home. In 1955, […]
Mary Lou Cobb Retires as Head of The Cobb School Montessori in Simsbury
By Kay Desai Photo courtesy of the Cobb School Montessori On June 1, over 400 students, alumni, parents, grandparents and friends came together in Simsbury, Conn., to celebrate Mary Lou Cobb on her retirement as head of The Cobb School Montessori, which she founded 45 years ago. A number of guests came from California and […]
Anne Frieze Ordained as Chaplain in the United Church of Christ
By Ruth Melville On Sunday, June 2, Anne Frieze was ordained in the United Church of Christ (UCC) as a hospital chaplain and installed at Trinity Health Of New England. For the past three years, Frieze has been providing hospice and spiritual care through Mercy Medical, based in Springfield, Mass., and part of Trinity Health. […]
Remembering Lois McKee
Lois Alice Patnoe McKee, age 71, of Norfolk, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. She is survived by sons Robert Boibeaux and Douglas Boibeaux and was predeceased by her son Colin Boibeaux. A graveside service will be held Saturday, May 18, at 1 p.m., at South Norfolk Cemetery.
In Memoriam
Debby Tait, who taught art and art history at public schools in Norfolk, Winsted, Colebrook and Barkhamsted, died on Feb. 8 in Montpelier, Vt. at the age of 84. She and her husband of 63 years, Colin Tait, who survives her, were longtime residents of Norfolk. Born Deborah Anne Blodget in New York City in […]
Theodore L. “Red” Raymond
Theodore L. “Red” Raymond, of Blackberry Street, Norfolk, died on Jan. 11 in Charlotte Hungerford Hospital at the age 84. He was preceded in death by his wife, Irene (Hackney) Raymond. Red Raymond was born in Sharon, Vt., on April 17, 1934, to Percy and Delia Raymond, and he grew up in Hanover, Vt. He […]
