Obituaries
Barbara Lassen Taught at Vineyard Schools for Many Years
Barbara Ann Lassen, a resident of Norwood for 25 years, and formerly of Oak Bluffs, died on Friday Sept. 12, at the Charlwell Nursing Home in Norwood...
Shirley Berkowitz Dworkin, 92, Loved to Travel
Shirley Berkowitz Dworkin, known as Shirley Sunshine, died peacefully on Sept. 9 at Linden Ponds in Hingham, where she had resided for the past four...
Robert Lee Doss Jr. Was Loving Husband and Father
Robert Lee Doss Jr. died on Sunday, Sept. 7, from pancreatic cancer. He was 68.
Peggy Johnson Was Descendant of Coffin Family
Margaret (Peggy) Korth Johnson died peacefully on Sept. 12. She was 84 and a direct descendant of the original Coffin family of Nantucket and Martha’...
Joan Faulkner, Noted Environmentalist Dies at 103
Joan Faulkner, noted environmentalist, horsewoman and conservationist, who, with her late husband F. Sheffield Faulkner, founded Golden Herd Farm in...
Marilyn Damon Returned to the Vineyard Every Year
Marilyn M. Damon died Sept. 8 after a courageous battle to recover from a devastating stroke she had suffered two weeks earlier. She was 76.
Helen Colvin Began Career in Head Start Program
Helen McVey Colvin died peacefully Sept. 11 after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 72.
Mike Keenan was Gifted Advertising Executive
Mike Keenan, one of the original Mad Men, died Sept. 9 in Falmouth. He was 80.
Lyle Warner Summered on Tisbury Great Pond
Lyle Lobel Warner, a longtime Cambridge resident, died in her beloved Mount Auburn Street apartment on Sept. 6. She was 84.