Obituaries

Walter Russell Silva died on Thursday, Dec. 29, at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was 85. Walter was born at Tea Lane Farm in Chilmark on...

Mary Jean Eglinas of Gainesville, Fla. and Martha’s Vineyard, died on Dec. 10, She was 92. Born July 5, 1919 in New Bedford, she was the first...

Catherine Elizabeth Maxwell Chamberlain, a long-time Vineyard resident, died Dec. 28 in Virginia Beach, Va, at age 94.

Carmine (Charlie) Monaco of Chicopee, Mass., died Dec. 22 at his daughter Karen Lodge’s home in Oak Bluffs, with his family by his side. He was 91.

Albert L. Cohn, a prominent and prolific New Jersey litigator for almost 60 years who exemplified the old-fashioned generalist in an age of legal...

Eleanor S. Gadd of Bloomfield, Conn., and Chilmark, died on Friday, Dec. 16, at the Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield. She was 90.

Louise Hansen, a resident of Kendal at Hanover and a 41-year summer resident of the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs, died Dec. 27, surrounded by her...

Thomas J. DeMont Jr. of Oak Bluffs, one of the country’s top scrimshaw artists, died on Dec. 15 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston...

Thomas DeMont, a well-known Edgartown businessman and owner of the Edgartown Scrimshaw Gallery on Main street Edgartown, died on Dec. 15 at...

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