Local Obituaries
None Christiane Sattler
Jun 3, 2013
Christiane (Jedamski) Sattler, of Westwood, formerly of Hannover, Germany, passed away peacefully on the early morning of June 3, 2013 at the Spaulding Hospital in Cambridge. She was 47. Christiane was born September 16, 1965 in Seesen, Germany, the daughter of the late Johann and Ruth Anna Maria (Leipolz) Jedamski. Christiane was the beloved wife of 20 years of...
Rene J. Masse
May 30, 2013
Rene Joseph “Ray” Masse, a resident of Norwood for 65 years, died Thursday, May 30, 2013 at the Ellis Nursing Home in Norwood, Massachusetts. He was 98. Ray was born April 26, 1915 in Reading, Massachusetts, a son of Louis and Adele (Dumoullin) Masse. Ray grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, graduating from Brookline High School, and then with a...
Helen V. Skarinka
May 18, 2013
Helen Victoria (Oberlander) Skarinka of Westwood, MA died Saturday, May 18, 2013. She was 89 years old. Helen was the beloved wife of the late Vitold C. Skarinka. She was one of five children of the late Louis A. and Ellen E. (Connolly) Oberlander and grew up in Dedham, MA. She was a graduate of the Class of 1941...
None Marion Phillips
May 14, 2013
Marion Grumman Phillips, 91, died on Tuesday May 14, 2013. She was a painter, a poet, an aviator, a genealogist, an author, and a talented mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She and her husband, Ellis L. Phillips, Jr., met at flying school on Long Island in 1940. They commuted between Princeton University and Mount Holyoke College via a jointly owned...
Mary E. Webster
May 9, 2013
Mary E. Webster passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at Medway Country Manor at the age of 88. She was born in Oakfield, Maine on June 22, 1924. Raised in Canton, MA, she graduated from Canton High School and lived in Norwood, MA most of her adult life. Miss Webster worked in the accounting department of...
Donald C. Clark
Apr 26, 2013
Donald Clayton Clark, also know to many as “PA” , passed away at Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday April 26, 2013. Don was born and raised in Sophia, West Virginia, a son of Harvey and Lily (Moy) Clark.
In January of 1951 Don enlisted in the US Navy and became a pilot on the USS Lette. He...
Kenneth H. Carlson
Apr 24, 2013
Kenneth Hjalmar Carlson, a longtime resident of Hyde Park, died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington after a long illness. He was 80. Kenneth was born December 7, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of John Hjalmar and Astrid Victoria (Anderson) Carlson, immigrants from Sweden. He worked for 26 years as a maintenance man...
O. Nathalie Mattson
Apr 24, 2013
Olive Nathalie (Young) Mattson, a longtime resident of Westwood, died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Highgate Manor Nursing Home in Dedham. She was 90. Nathalie was the daughter of James Howard and Olive (Otis) Young. She grew up in Norwood and worked for many years as a secretary for General Electric. Nathalie was the wife of the late Thurston...
Harvey H. Kamps
Apr 23, 2013
Harvey H. Kamps, a lifelong resident of Dedham, all of it on the same street, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at his home. He was 90. Harvey was born September 22, 1922 in Dedham, Massachusetts one of the seven children of Edward E. and Louise Alma (Kiessling) Kamps. He attended Dedham High School and worked as an auto mechanic...
None Herbert Anderson
Apr 21, 2013
Herbert Edwin Anderson, a lifelong resident of Dedham, died Sunday, April 21, 2013 at the Norwood Hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. He was 85. Herbert was born August 7, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the three sons of Swedish immigrants Edwin and Judith (Erdands) Anderson. He attended Dedham High School before enlisting the the US Navy where he served...
None Kathryn Hildreth
Apr 20, 2013
Kathryn Staples Hildreth, 103, died in her sleep on April 20, 2013 at Fox Hill Village in Westwood, MA, after a long and rewarding life. Born Oct. 31, 1909, she was the daughter of Clarence Hawthorne Staples, M.D., and Ruth (Clarke) Staples. Raised in Malden, MA, Kathryn (Kay) attended local schools and one year at National Cathedral School in...
Margeory M. (Driscoll) Dicesare
Apr 14, 2013
Margeory M. (Driscoll) DiCesare, a resident of North Easton for many years and formerly of Dedham, died Sunday, April 14, 2013. She was 86 years old. She was the daughter of the late Kenneth and Ethel M. (Lewis) Driscoll. Margeory was born in Boston, grew up in Dedham and attended Dedham High School. She worked in Quality Control at...
None Alice Sutton
Apr 7, 2013
Alice Wilhelmina (Lindsay) Sutton, a resident of Westwood for 40 years, passed away peacefully at the Maples Nursing Home in Wrentham, Sunday, April 7, 2013, after a long illness. She was 88. Alice was born January 23, 1925 in Lucknow India to Christian missionaries Reverend Alexander and Wilhelmina (Lockhart) Lindsay. She graduated from Drury High School in North Adams,...
Andrew T. Platais
Apr 6, 2013
Andrew Talavs Platais, a resident of West Roxbury for over 60 years, died peacefully at home April 6, 2013. He was 78 years old. Andrew was born in Jelgava, Latvia and came to Boston in 1949. He was the son of the late Voldemaris and Alma (Shenveters) Platais. He graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1951 and joined...
Harlan Robert Pinkham
Apr 2, 2013
Harlan Robert Pinkham, of Dedham, died on April 2, 2013 at home, with his family, after a battle with brain cancer. He was 79. He was born on February 19, 1934 in Framingham, the son of Thomas A. Pinkham, Jr. and Elizabeth R. (Moon) Pinkham. He grew up in West Roxbury and attended Boston Latin School and Roslindale High...
Barbara J. Springston
Apr 2, 2013
Barbara Jean (Ollis) Springston, a resident of Bellingham for 42 years, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at the Milford Hospital in Milford, Massachusetts. She was 68. Barbara was born February 4, 1945 in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the three daughters of Mathias I. and Ruth M. Creed) Ollis. She grew up in Roslindale, graduated from Roslindale High School, and...
Joyce E. (Gardner) Carpenter
Mar 31, 2013
Joyce Evelyn (Gardner) Carpenter, a resident of Westwood for over 35 years, died Sunday, March 31, 2013 at the Milton Hospital in Milton. She was 84. Joyce was born December 14, 1928 in Northampton, England, the daughter of Sidney and Isabelle (Buthee) Gardner. She immigrated to the United States in 1965 and worked for over 35 years until her...
Robert D. Wrenn
Mar 31, 2013
Robert Duffield Wrenn, a life-long resident of Dedham and Needham, died on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013, at the age of 86 years old. Robert was born in Boston, the son of George Lawson and Mary Trotter Goodman Wrenn. He graduated from the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts (class of 1944), Harvard College (class of 1948) and the Harvard...
Jeanne L. Gleason
Mar 29, 2013
Jeanne L. Gleason (Corbett), a resident of Millis, MA died peacefully on March 29, 2013 at the age of 77. Born in Tewksbury, MA she was the daughter of Thomas A. and Lillian (Morton) Corbett. Mrs. Gleason was the beloved wife of the late Harold R. Gleason, who passed away in October of 2012. She is described by her...
Helen M. (Donnelly) Packard Scolnick
Mar 28, 2013
Helen M. (Packard) Scolnick, a lifelong resident of Roslindale, died Thursday, March 28, 2013 at Golden Living Center in Dedham. She was 97 years old. Helen was the daughter of the late William and Helen M. (MacLachlan) Donnelly. She graduated from high school and Boston Clerical School in Jamaica Plain. Helen worked as a secretary for McGraw-Hill Publishing in...
