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Frank Bell Frank Bell died at Yale–New Haven Hospital on February 16, surrounded by his loving family. He succumbed to interstitial lung disease, which he had battled for two years. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1939, Bell attended Phillips Academy at Andover, studied mechanical engineering at Yale University, and received a master’s in business administration […]
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William S. Vaun William S. Vaun, 85, died peacefully on Monday, December 1, 2014. He is survived by his beloved wife, Sally, their daughter, Elizabeth (Sissi) and five siblings. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Vaun received his undergraduate degree from Trinity College and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1957 to 1959 he […]
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Katherine McClintock, Active Volunteer in Norfolk, Dies Katherine Gillett McClintock, 93, died on February 9, 2015. She grew up in Pelham Manor, N.Y. and in 1943 married Brower McClintock. They made their home in Bronxville, N.Y., then retired to her family’s longtime summer home in Norfolk, moving in 1993 to Ashlar Village in Wallingford, Conn., […]
Bill Gridley Dies After Brief Illness
William Gill Gridley, Jr. died peacefully after a brief illness Saturday, November 29 at his Norfolk home under the loving care of his family and hospice nurses and aides of the Foothills Visiting Nurses Association. Gridley was born January 10, 1929 in New York City, the son of Elizabeth Meeker and William Gill Gridley. His […]
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—Enrico Ferorelli (b. Aug. 29, 1941) died October 6 at home, surrounded by his loving wife, Martha, their children, Josephine and Francesco, and a cousin from Rome. Ferorelli loved Doolittle Lake and immortalized it in his photographs. A memorial service is being planned for late November or early December in New York City to recall […]
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Dennis Gawtry Collins, 79, died unexpectedly on March 15, 2014. Born April 3, 1934, in New York City, he was raised in Millbrook, N.Y., where he attended Millbrook School, followed by Cornell University. A lifelong outdoorsman, birder and conservationist, Collins helped organize the Norfolk Land Trust in his home basement. Following a career […]
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Arlene Swift Jones, a poet, memoirist and educator, died at home in Bloomfield, Conn. on December 31, surrounded by her three daughters and granddaughter. The cause was sepsis, following complications from peripheral vascular disease. As the wife of a foreign service officer, Jones lived in Germany, Poland, Cyprus, Norway and Switzerland, with spells in Greece, […]
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Died: Catherine “Cay” P. Fields, at her daughter’s home in Carmel, NY, on July 11. She was a long-time resident of Norfolk, where her husband Harold Fields was born and raised. She was at various times a school board member, active in Boy and Girl Scouting, a realtor with her own Norfolk agency, President of […]
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Died: Stephen Charlton, 74, of Shepard Road, on March 2. The husband of Shirley (Bottum) Charlton, he is also survived by his daughter, Deborah M. Curtiss of Norfolk and two sons, Scott Charlton of Virginia and Gardiner Charlton of New York and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Stephen worked with Don Marchand Construction, O&G Industries and […]
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Died: Elizabeth Eyre Taylor, a longtime resident of Southfield, Mass. and Eleuthera, Bahamas died Sunday, January at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington. Though she lived in Southfield, Norfolk was her town. She was a pilot in the WASP’s during World War II and received the highest civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal. For many years she […]
