Area Obituaries from Manchester and surrounding towns
Arthur Willis Hard 71 lifelong Manchester resident and dairy partner died Saturday. Survived by sister Josephine and brothers Ernest and Jesse. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. Brewster Funeral Home Manchester Center. Burial in Dellwood Cemetery. Wright William H. well known Bennington businessman died at Putnam Memorial Hospital after 10 days as a patient. Survived by wife Thelma and children, grandchildren, siblings. Funeral Tuesday 2 p.m. Second Congregational Church. Burial Park Lawn Cemetery. Armour Harry 70 longtime West Arlington resident died Sunday at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Born in Kearny New Jersey. Survived by wife Irene. Funeral arrangements at Armitage Funeral Home Kearny. Dunham Kenneth Heresbert 70 Shaftsbury native died Sunday while driving in Allentown Pennsylvania en route to Springfield to celebrate 50th wedding anniversary. Retired from Fellows Gear Shaper Co. in 1960. Survived by wife Elsie Millington, three sons Harold Warren Leslie, nine grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday 2 p.m. Davis Memorial Chapel Springfield. Burial Oakland Cemetery. Funeral home hours listed for viewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Arthur Willis Hard
Hard Brothers
Willis
Mary
Burroughs) Hard
Burr and Burton Seminary
Vermont State School of Agriculture
Randolph
Josephine Hard
Ernest
Jesse Hard
Brewster Funeral Home
Manchester Center
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
Manchester Congregational Church
Dellwood
Bennington County
4-H Club
James Edgerton
Bennington
William H. Wright
Putnam Memorial Hospital
David and
Marion Wright
Wright
Crawford & Wright Moving
Frederick Crawford
North Street
Bennington Lodge of Elks
Thelma Coyne
Pitt
Marion) Montegomery
Shaftsbury
Joseph
Beverly) Kochanski
Baldwinsville
Mass
William David Wright
West Arlington
Harry Armour
Mr. Armour
Kearny
N.J
Thomas
Catherine (Sutherland) Armour
Precision Metals Plant
Irene
Arlington
Armitage Funeral
Mahar & Son Funeral
Springfield
Kenneth Heresbert Dunham
Allentown
South Daytona
Fla
Mr. Dunham
Herbert and
Loomis) Dunham
Fellows Gear Shaper Co
Elsie Millington
Harold L
Warren A
Leslie H. Dunham
New Teachers Lead 35-Staff Rural Bennington Schools
Ten new teachers join 35 faculty across three Greater Bennington School District buildings as classes start September 1. Beech Street adds two first grade instructors Sharon Brown and Ardelle Chase, both with no prior teaching experience, while Molly Stark and Hicks School host four additional second and first grade sections. Ellen Fuller and Marie Williams bring further Beech Street experience, and Marie Mattison of Arlington, Castleton College graduate, joins as part of the second grade contingent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Beech Street
Hicks School
Molly Stark
Sharon Brown
Ardelle Chase
Brown
Barton
Lyndon State College
Chase
Westfield
Mass
State College
South Egremont
Ellen Fuller
Marie Williams
Marie Mattison
Arlington
Castleton State College
Greater Bennington
Lena Adams
R. Marion Taylor
Margaret Meagher
Stillwater
N.Y
Castleton
Maureen Orr
Fort Walton Beach
Fla
Framingham
Worcester
Massachusetts
Florida
Ann Smith
University of Vermont
Dorothy Read
Karen Arthur
Ira Manross
Alice Murphy
Samuel
Ada Sue Diamond
Plattsburgh
Copenhagen
Edward Miller
Branford
Ronald C. Arthur
Michael Bobowiec
Therese Goodermore
Norman Lariviere
Sandra Mausert
Bennington Briefs Recap of local notices and school hiring
Local Bennington brief items report surgery for Miss Dale Purdy at Putnam Memorial Hospital and family travels for T Sgt Joseph H McCoy of McDill AFB. School staff changes include new teachers at Hicks and Molly Stark, plus updated junior high assignments. National headlines cover Vermont deaths by self harm, and municipal court actions on grand larceny and non support charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Purdy
Burgess Road
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Playground season ends Tuesday after 10 weeks
Dover Foxcroft Maine reports the 1965 playground season will close Tuesday after ten weeks of activities. The piece thanks volunteers and judges and notes appreciation for those who donated prizes and assisted at special events as the program ends and preparations begin for September.
Windsor Boy Dies in Dive
Windsor, Vt. Jeffrey Waters, 14, died Sunday from a broken neck after a plunge from Gassetts Bridge into a shallow pond in Windsor. He had been critically injured Aug. 14 and died at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Philip Waters, with a sister and two brothers. Waters was Windsor High School’s freshman class vice president last year and a standout junior baseball player.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor, VI
UPI
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Hanover
N.H
Jeffrey Waters
Windsor
Gassetts Bridge
Philip Waters
Young Waters
Windsor High School
Sideswipe accident damages two cars on Vermont 9
Shaftsbury state police troopers investigated a Saturday evening sideswipe on Vermont 9. Drivers were David L. Mercier aged 27 of 236 Division Street and Leslie D. Allen aged 48 of Troy New York. No injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodford
Vermont
Shaftsbury
David L. Mercier
Division St
Leslie D. Allen
Troy
N.Y
Police Drag Champlain For Rutland Man
State Police prepared to dredge the choppy waters of Lake Champlain to locate Irving Webb a 40 year old Rutland man who fell from a 32 foot cabin cruiser off Potash Point during a Sunday boat trip Webb who was among nine passengers could not reach a life line tossed from the boat as rough water prevented his rescue and search continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addison
UPI
Lake Champlain
Rutland
Irving Webb
Pierce Patterson
Webb
Potash Point
Tax Director Loses License In Vermont Action
MONTPELIER Vermont. The state Motor Vehicles Department suspended for six months the driver license of William Hogan director of taxes. The 41 year old Montpelier man was convicted last May on charges of careless and negligent driving. It was the third suspension on the same charges for Hogan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
William Hogan
Vermont
Hogan
Stock Averages Report at Noon Across Major Indices
Dow Jones Industrial average at noon stood at 889.54, down 0.38. Railroads led losses with 216.59, down 0.92, while utilities slipped 0.03 to 155.48. Composite average rose 0.30 to 313.72 as sales reached 2,160,000.
Hospital Notes Friday August 20 Admissions List
Admission notes list numerous names across Vermont and New York locales including Master Willie Betit from Pownal Center Mrs Anna Sauer Mrs Marie McKeon and son Master John LaFountain A Kenneth Robinson and others at North Bennington Readsboro Manchester Depot Eagle Bridge Hoosick Falls Wil liamstown Mass and more. The fragment records patient additions and associated towns without further medical details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Betit
Pownal Center
Anna Sauer
Marie McKeon and Son
John LaFountain
Bennington
A. Kenneth Robinson
North Bennington
Joseph Marchegiani
Readsboro
Mildred Long
Manchester Depot
Edna Wright
Betty Jane Austin
Eagle Bridge
N.Y
Charmagne Gibbons
David Buxbaum
Herbert Farrington Dies State Road Planner 63
Herbert Farrington 63 of Montpelier, supervisor of planning for Vermont Highway Department, died today at Heaton Hospital. A Wilmington native, he directed planning since 1938 and helped develop the interstate system and the 14 year plan earning a national award. Survived by wife Christina Denny, two daughters, brother Frank, with funeral arrangements incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montpelier
UPI
Herbert Farrington
State Highway Department
Heaton Hospital
Farrington
Wilmington
Russell A. Holden
Vermont
Holden
Christina Denny
Northfield
Frank
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Rene Schurink
Ambles
Whitman's Acres
East Road
Bennington County Humane Society
Hamilton
Kenneth H. Dunham
Bennington Briefs
Judith A. Cooke
Beverly Hills
Calif
Marjorie and
Mildred Healy
Adams Street
Joseph W. McCoy
Sgt
Joseph H. McCoy
Joseph H, McCoy
McDill Afb Hospital
Tampa
Memorial Park
Richard B. Diamond
Main St
ADV
Physicians’ Laboratory
Duxbury
Lester W. Ferris
Lake Bluff
Ill
Charles Sherman
Shepard Quimby
Fayston
Ferris
Robert Charles Veysey
Poleon Pietryka
Mary Jane Scott
Marcia Barber
Ann Koziol
Robert Poblocki
Ruth Watkin
Patricia Sherman
Polly Wilson
Rachel Kinney
W. Philip Walker
Walker
Ford Foundation
Chester A. Cutler
Raymond Crawford
Howard J. Therrien Sr
Clarksburg
James F. O'Neill
George M. Fienberg
Richard C. Ballance
Atty R. Marshall Witten
Ballance
Walloomsac Inn
Old Bennington
John A. Volpe
Charles V. Ryan
Calvin Coolidge
Boston
William N. DeBerry
City Hall
Volpe
Kemon
Dover - Foxcroft
Maine
George R. Kemon
Associated Press
Superior Court
Armand A. Dufresne
Liggett-Bosworth Motor Sales Co
Squaw Mountain Inn
Greenville Junction
Bennington Auto Agency
S. Burlington
Essex Center
Vergennes
Judson Evarts
Green Mountain Construction Co
South Burlington
Richard S. Woodruff
Frank Ward
Evarts
Ward
Lost & Found
Stark Street
YMCA
Charles Comstock
Art Bruneau
David Riddle
Kitty Kane
John Hicks
Peter Metcalfe
Paul Hurley
Cindy Tiernan
Peter
Wynn Metcalfe
David
Willy Hur
Kenneth Hurley
Eagle-eye
Ralph Bartell
Sideswipe
Harte Theatre
John Wayne
Kirk Douglas
Patricia Neal
Tom Tryon
Paula Prentiss
Brandon de Wilde
Jill Haworth
Dana Andrews
Henry Fonda
Wayner
James ‘Stewart
YG McClure
Glenn Corbett
Patrick Wayne
Katharine Rossie
Rosemary Forsyth
Shirley Malaine
Peter Ustinov
Richard Crenna
George Peppard
Elizabeth Ashley
Joseph Mayes
Burton Wohl
Robert Preace Smith
Tecamcol
Warner Bos.plus
Dob Hope
Tuesday Weld
Frankie Avalon
Dima Merrill
United Artists
Technicolor
Champlain
Colonie
Latham Circle
Eddie Rich
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Latham
Dennis O'Keefe
Betty Field
Dow-Jones& Bache & Co
Albany
Mason
Patty
Kathy
Cindy Lou
Louis
Lee Belle
Beech Court
Sandra
Hurlburt
Linda Ayer
Thomas Maynard
Mary Bull
North Pownal
Rhea Gleason
Daniel Wendell
Wilfred Racine
Mary Davis
Eleanor Mattison
Diane Davis
Patricia Griffin
Janith Cardella
Williamstown
Nancy Nelson
Hoosick Falls
Highway Department
Beauty Acad
Dierr’s
West St
Rutland, Vt
Post Office
National Association
of Cosmetology Schools
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