Obituaries

Herbert N. Bianchi died peacefully at his home in Vineyard Haven on July 4.

Nancy Safford of Sedona, Ariz., died July 10 from cancer. She was 74.

Duncan MacDonald died on July 18 at the Henrietta Brewer House in Vineyard Haven at the remarkable age of 104.

Jean Carol Gebhardt died peacefully on July 9, at the Henrietta Brewer House in Vineyard Haven. She was 94.

Local Vineyard landscape artist Mary S. French, née Stokes, died June 29 at 92 after a long illness.

Margaret Ditson died peacefully on July 9. She was 67.

Barbara C. Beichek died unexpectedly on July 6 at her home in Oak Bluffs. She was 68.

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Phronsie Conlin died on Thursday, July 9, at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital one day shy of her 101st birthday.

Betty Eddy, a longtime resident of Chilmark, died at her home on the Eddy Farm on June 30.

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