New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947
Claire Smith
YORK HARBOR, Maine - Claire Twomey Smith, 64, of Axholme Road, died Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003, at Harbor Home in York Harbor after a long illness.
She was born on Feb. 13, 1939, in Biddeford, the daughter of Jeremiah O. and Mary Evelyn (Grenier) Twomey Sr.
She attended Saco schools, and was a graduate of Thornton Academy. She earned a degree to be a registered nurse from the former Maine Medical Center School of Nursing in Portland.
Her nursing career spanned nearly 40 years. She worked at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth, N.H., for most of her career as a nursing supervisor and director of the short stay unit. She also had worked at York Hospital and at the Harbor Home.
She was an avid gardener and doll collector. She designed several very popular and beautifully knit dolls with varied themes reflecting the beauty and simplicity of Maine life. She enjoyed family trips to Walt Disney World and annual vacations to Nova Scotia, where she had planned to retire.
She was a devoted mother, grandmother and dear friend to all who knew her. She was known for her wit, possessing a wry sense of humor. She will be truly missed by her family and friends.
She was the former wife of Barry R. Smith of North Hampton, N.H.
Survivors include two sons, Thomas Michael Smith of Bealeton, Va., and Maj. Mark A. Smith, U.S. Army, currently stationed in Ankara, Turkey; two daughters, Mary Ellen Smith of York, and Melissa A. McGuinness of Tall Timbers, Md., a sister, Mary Ellen Black, and a brother, Jerry Twomey, both of Saco, 12 grandchildren and three nephews.
Relatives and friends are invited to call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday at J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home, Post Road, Kittery. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Biddeford, where she will be laid to rest with her parents.
Memorial contributions may be made to an Alzheimer’s disease charity of one’s choice. Arrangements are through LaFrance-Lambert Funeral Home, 29 Winter St., Sanford.
Leo N. Turgeon
DOVER - Leo N. Turgeon, 62, of 121 Fourth St., died Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003, at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Friends may call Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Wiggin-Purdy-McCooey-Dion Funeral Home, 655 Central Ave., Dover. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Charles Church in Dover with the Rev. Paul Gregoire officiating. Burial will follow at St. Charles Cemetery, Dover.
Paul DeRoy
ELIOT, Maine - Paul Aurel Joseph DeRoy, 73, of 64 Beech Road, Baran Place, Eliot, died on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004, at York Hospital.
Born in Eliot on May 17, 1930, he was the youngest of seven children to Charles Edmund and Alice (LaPlante) DeRoy. He attended local schools, graduating from Eliot High School, Class of 1949.
After school, he served his country in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the USS Sea Leopard (SS 483).
He was employed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the supply department as an administrative assistant for many years until his retirement in 1982. After retirement, he worked for a time at DeMoulas Supermarket in Portsmouth.
He was an active member of his church, St. Raphael Parish Church, in Kittery for 40 years, serving in a number of capacities. He was also a member of the Knights of Columbus Council 140 of Portsmouth, where he held an honorary 3rd Degree Life Membership.
He enjoyed membership in the Disabled American Veterans Post 4 of Newington and was a member of the Eliot American Legion Post 188, until 1980, when he transferred to Post 47 in Rollinsford, N.H. He had an active American Legion Career, serving in many positions, including the department vice commander. The election of an Eliot man to the top command of the First District was a first at the time and certainly a high point in his Legion career.
He enjoyed keeping up on current events, including politics, and was an avid sports fan, including the Boston Red Sox. He liked spending time at the Dover Senior Citizens Center playing cribbage and sharing time with his friends.
He will be missed by those who knew and loved him and enjoyed spending time with him. He leaves behind two sisters-in-law, Germaine DeRoy of Rochester, and Gloria DeRoy of Berwick; several nieces and nephews; as well as his Baran Place family. He was predeceased by his parents; and two sisters, Beatrice Garceau and Bernadette Wojnar; and four brothers, Edmund, Omer, Joseph and Adolph.
Friends may visit with his family from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home, 125 Old Post Road, Kittery, Maine 03904. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Raphael Parish Church in Kittery on Monday at 10 a.m., with a time of refreshment and sharing to follow.
Burial will take place in the spring at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Rollinsford, N.H. Family flowers only, donations may be made in his memory to the "Friends of Baran Place," P.O. Box 189, Eliot, Maine 03903.
Arrangements are entrusted to the J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Alton Donnell
KITTERY, Maine - Alton Donnell, 84, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004, in Kittery, Maine, at his daughter’s home after a long illness.
Born in Kittery, Maine, on Oct. 19, 1919, he was the son of Wallace and Vena (Bamford) Donnell. He started school at the early age of 4 at the Austin School and graduated from Traip Academy at the age of 16.
After high school, he went to work at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as a shipfitter working on submarines. He left the shipyard and started civilian pilot training in 1942, and in September of that year went to Nashville, Tenn., for preflight school and then to Monroe, La.
In January of 1943, he went to Coral Gables, Fla., and graduated for advanced navigation school for the Army Air Corps. In February 1945, he was made 1st Lieutenant and served in World War II as a flight navigator.
During his service to his country, he flew many harrowing missions over the North Atlantic and received several air medals, including one for flying over the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea in a B-24 between Meeks Field, Iceland, and Jan Mayan Island, a distance of 1,600 miles on an uncharted route without radio navigational aids and without adequate gunnery protection. The strategic success of this mission restored operation of the Jan Mayan Island weather station, which was considered of vital strategic importance in ascertaining weather conditions just prior to D-Day operations.
On March 3, 1945, he married Edna May Henderson, and remained in the service until February 1946. After the war, he went back to work as a carpenter for a private contractor, and in 1949, he and his wife had a daughter, Kathy Ann Donnell.
In 1951, he returned to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as a carpenter and then later as a draftsman. He retired from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1977, with 32 years of faithful service. During his retirement years, he was an avid stamp collector and liked to work on jigsaw puzzles and hooked rugs. He was always there to give his son-in-law help with household construction projects. He always liked to hunt and fish and always liked being outdoors, where on many days he could be seen sitting under the trees looking out onto his gardens.
His wife had died nearly 15 years ago, and he lived next door to his daughter and her husband, Russell and Kathy Plante, where he was always there for his two grandchildren, Nick and Matt, who had always called him "Bumpa."
He could always be seen tending his vegetable gardens, which were his labor of love. His presence will always be seen tending his crops with an old straw hat on his head and a smile on his face. He will be sadly missed by his family but never forgotten.
He is survived by his daughter, Kathy Plante and her husband, Russell; and his two grandsons, Nicholas and Matthew Plante.
Funeral services will be private at the family’s request.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of one’s choice.
Arrangements are entrusted to J.S. Pelkey Funeral Home of Kittery.
Teashia Hargis
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine - Teashia A. Hargis, 29, of Main Street, died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, at her home following a lifelong battle with various medical complications.
She was born in Mandan, N.D., April 16, 1974, the daughter of James "Pat" and Judith (Schaefer) Hargis.
She attended the Livermore Falls Central School in Livermore Falls.
She loved animals, especially her cats and rabbit. She had been a member of the Special Olympics and enjoyed singing.
Members of the family include her father and stepmother, Pat and Chris Hargis, of South Berwick; her mother, Judith Schaefer of Minot, N.D.; two brothers and a sister, Jim, Caleb and Rebecca Hargis, all of South Berwick; three stepbrothers, Tom and Michael Wilson of Minot, and David Wilson of Brewer; her grandmother, Linda Burgess of Olathe, Kan.; and a stepgrandmother, Hilda Meeves of Bennington, Neb. Many aunts, uncles and cousins also survive her.
There will be no calling hours, and the family will observe private services.
Please consider contributions in her memory to the Special Olympics of Maine, 125 John Roberts Road, Suite 19, South Portland, Maine 04106.
Arrangements are under the direction of the McIntire-McCooey Funeral Home, 301 Main St., South Berwick, Maine 03908.
Ching Ho
DOVER - Dr. Ching Hsin Ho, 79, formerly of 18 Harding Road, Portsmouth, died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004, after a number of years with Alzheimer’s disease. He was surrounded by his loving family and will be missed dearly.
He was born on Dec. 6, 1924, in Keelung, Taiwan, the son of Kuei Fong Ho and Yii Kuo.
He earned his medical degree at National Taiwan University. After moving to the United States in 1955, he pursued further medical training in Paramus, N.J., and Burlington, Vt., then worked as an anesthesiologist in Montreal, Canada, Holyoke, Mass., and then Portsmouth, where he and his wife raised eight children.
He was fluent in Taiwanese, Japanese and English, and he enjoyed traveling, reading, swimming and sailing.
He is survived by his wife, Ming Chu; children, Wen-Huwa Ho and Scott Houle of Dover, Richard and Veronique Ho of San Diego, Calif., Ken Ho and Hui-Hui Hu of Cambridge, Mass., Jane Ho and Brian Youth of Scarborough, Maine, Evelyn Ho and Ben Larkin of Dover, Fran Ho and Matt Williams of Seattle, Wash., Sandra Ho of Dover, Len Ho and Peggy Yeh of Cambridge, Mass., 13 grandchildren; one brother, Lung-San Ho of Cerritos, Calif., three sisters, Chin-Sen, Chiu-Yi and Tin-Tsai, all of Taipei, Taiwan, and several nieces, nephews.
Isaac James
NOTTINGHAM - Isaac Bronson James, 5-month-old son of Sarah Binger and Aaron Cooper James, formerly of Nottingham, died suddenly early Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, at home on North Undermountain Road, Sheffield, Mass.
Isaac James
He was born on Aug. 21, 2003, at Albany Medical Center, one of three children of Sarah and Aaron James.
Besides his parents of Sheffield, he also is survived by two sisters, Rachel Barbara and Anna Leora Rice James, both at home in Sheffield. He also leaves his paternal great-grandmother, Dr. Loretta K. Selesky of St. Louis, Mo.; paternal grandparents, Henry "Bud" and Barbara L. James of Newmarket; maternal grandmother, Susan S. Binger of New York, N.Y.; and his maternal grandfather, Bronson Binger, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
A memorial gathering for him will be held on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Allen Theater on the Berkshire School Campus on North Undermountain Road in Sheffield.
In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Ronald McDonald House in Albany through Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home, 426 Main St., Great Barrington, Mass. 01230.
Violet Murray
EPPING - Violet A. (Whitney) Murray, 78, widow of Edwin E. Murray Sr. of Whispering Pines, 70 Pleasant St., died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004, at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
She was born in Medford, Mass., on Aug. 30, 1925, the daughter of Thomas R. and Lettie E. (Thompson) Whitney.
She served as director of the Senior Citizen Center in Portsmouth for eight years. For three years she volunteered for the Alzheimer’s Daycare Program held at the Feaster Apartments.
She was a member of the Fellowship Bible Church in Chester.
Survivors include a daughter, Mary Dockham of Epping; a son, Edwin E. Murray Jr., of Epping; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Lewis Chappell of Apache Junction, Ariz.; a brother, Lowell T. Whitney of South Ashburnham, Mass.; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at J. Verne Wood Funeral Home - Buckminster Chapel, 84 Broad St., Portsmouth, Sunday at 3 p.m. Friends are invited. There will be no visiting hours. The family requests there be family flowers only, and memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Gail Singer Memorial Building, 360 State Route 101, Suite 501, Bedford, N.H. 03110-5032. Burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery, Portsmouth in the spring.
Daniel Weymouth
LEBANON, Maine - Daniel Mark Weymouth, 47, of 40 Wilfred Drive, Lebanon, died Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, at his home.
Born July 24, 1956, in Effingham, N.H., he was the son of John and Nellie (Perkins) Weymouth.
He had lived in Lebanon for the past 12 years after moving from Rochester, N.H. He worked as an arborist and owned and operated his company Weymouth Tree Services in Lebanon. He was an avid fisherman and hunter. He was a member of the Victory Club in Rochester, N.H., and of the Northern York County Gun Club. He was a great father and friend.
Members of his family include his parents, John and Nellie Weymouth, of Rochester; sons, Peter Weymouth of Lebanon, and Joseph Weymouth of New Durham, N.H.; daughter; Amy Weymouth of New York; three brothers, David Weymouth of North Carolina, John Peter Weymouth of Rochester, and Allan Weymouth of Sanford; three sisters, Janet Atkins of Epping, N.H., Virginia Weymouth of Virginia, and Jane Weymouth of Dover, N.H.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his brothers, Leo and Andy Weymouth.
Calling hours will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at R.M. Edgerly & Son Funeral Home, 86 South Main St., Rochester, N.H. 03867.
A funeral service will be held at 6 p.m. in the Chapel of R.M. Edgerly & Son Funeral Home, 86 South Main St., Rochester, NH 03867
Burial will take place in the Lovell Lake Cemetery in Wakefield, N.H., at a later date.
Julia Yates
CANDIA - Julie E. Yates, 56, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, at her home after a period of failing health.
Friends and fellow workers at the University of New Hampshire of Julie E. Yates, area manager, University Hospitality Services at the University of New Hampshire are invited to a memorial service celebrating her life. The service will be held in Huddleston Hall at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Marsha Ainsworth
SOMERSWORTH - Marsha Ernestine Ainsworth, 63, of 5 Blackwater Road, died at her residence Thursday, June 3, 2004.
She was born July 5, 1940, in Dover, N.H., the daughter of Ernest and Althea (Huntington) Ainsworth. She was a graduate of Somersworth High School, a life long resident of the Dover-Somersworth area. She enjoyed crafts, bowling, gardening and traveling, especially going to Mexico.
She is survived by her husband, Joseph G. Ainsworth, of Somersworth; a son, Vince J. Ainsworth of Dover; a daughter, Tammy J. Ainsworth of Somersworth; a brother, Stanley Joy of Alabama and one granddaughter, Teri-Lee Scott.
Funeral services will be held at the Wiggin-Purdy-McCooey-Dion Funeral Home, 655 Central Ave., Dover, N.H. at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 5 with the Rev. Mark Rideout, pastor of the First Parish United Church of Christ of Somersworth, officiating.
Visiting hours will be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. prior to the service. Burial will follow at the Forest Glade Cemetery in Somersworth.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Seacoast Hospice, 642 Central Ave., Dover, N.H.
Barbara Drew
MIDDLETON - Barbara G. Drew, 85, of King’s Highway in Middleton, died Wednesday, June 2, 2004, at Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
BARBARA DREW
Nurse
Born Feb. 15, 1919, in Manchester, she was the daughter of William B. and Leona (Bartlett) Grant. She had resided in Farmington for 30 years and resided the past 32 years in Middleton. The loving wife of John J. Drew, they were married on June 21, 1941.
A loving mother, she was also a registered nurse, she was a former school nurse with the Farmington School system and was the first visiting nurse with the Rural District Health Council of Farmington.
She was a member and Deacon at the First Congregational Church of Farmington. Also she was a member of the D.A.R. and the Darnets of Farmington.
She is survived by her husband of 63 years, John J. Drew of Middleton; four children, Sheila D. Perkins of Strafford, Tamara D. Luscombe of Hampstead, Regina D. LeClair of Rochester and Grant A. Drew of Sanbornton; 12 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Elaine M. Grant of Rochester and Norma G. McDonough of Newport; also many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her daughter, Rhonda L. Goodwin of Middleton, on Feb. 12, 2003.
Calling hours are Saturday evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Peaslee Funeral Home, 24 Central St., in Farmington. A Funeral Service will be held on Sunday, June 6 at the First Congregational Church, 400 Main St., Farmington at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Susan Goodwin, pastor and the Rev. Stephen Hanson, officiating. Interment will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery in Farmington.
If desired, memorial donations may be made in her memory to the First Congregational Church, 400 Main St., Farmington, NH 03835.