Obituaries

Virginia Ernestine Mayhew Peckham, a Chilmark native, died Sept. 16 in Westerly, R.I. This past June, she celebrated her 100th birthday.

Sumner Wright Mead died Sept. 6 of natural causes at his home in Wilmette, Ill. He was 92.

Charles Edward Carlson 3rd died unexpectedly on Sept. 5. He was 57.

Eleanor (Terry) Hunt Burke died on Sept. 25 in Bellaire, Mich. She was 82.

Edwin Theodore (Sonny) Leonard Jr. of McGaheysville, Va., died Sept. 20 in Harrisonburg, Va. He was 92.

Russell Weldon Hawkins Jr. of Laurel, Md. died Saturday, Sept. 3 in Baltimore, Md. after a long and courageous battle with heart disease. He was 48.

Alice T. (LaBelle) Williams of Edgartown died on Sunday, Sept. 18 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was 84.

Karen T. Harris died unexpectedly at home in West Tisbury on Sunday morning, Sept. 18. She was 70.

William Morrison Waggaman Jr. died at his St. Paul, Minn. home on Sept. 12. He was 26.

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