Obituaries
Priscilla Magnuson
Priscilla M. Magnuson died peacefully on Dec. 19, 2012 at her home on Cooke street in Edgartown. She was 84 and the wife of George G. W. Magnuson Jr...
Gloria Mason Treasured Years Spent on Island
Gloria Lorraine Mason of Oak Bluffs died Dec. 4 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after a short illness. She was 83. A full-time Island resident...
Mary MacDonald Was Adventurous Dreamer
Mary Anderson MacDonald died Dec. 7 in Savannah, Ga. surrounded by her family with her favorite music playing and pictures of everyone she loved...
Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Joseph E. Murray Was Medical Pioneer
Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Wellesley and Chappaquiddick, a plastic surgeon whose pioneering work in organ transplant surgery in the 1950s later led to a...
Susan B. May Was Highly Spirited and Indomitable
Susan B. (Ticket) May of Edgartown, Delray Beach, Fla. and New Canaan, Conn. died Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Ticket May was born in 1913 in Chicago. ...
Masha Mercier, 1
Masha P. Mercier, the 21-month-old daughter of Tristan Colbert of Edgartown and Timothy Mercier of Vineyard Haven, died unexpectedly at the Martha’s...
Don Mohr, 89
Donald J. Mohr, a former longtime resident of the Vineyard who for many years led the Martha’s Vineyard Striped Bass and Bluefish Derby as its...
Margaret McCarter Devoted Life to Political Activism
Margaret Douglas McCarter of Westport died Wednesday, Sept. 12, on Martha’s Vineyard. She was 86 years old.
Shirley McCarthy, 81
Shirley M. McCarthy of Oak Bluffs died at the age of 81 on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 at Mass General Hospital. She was the wife of Frederick J....