Obituaries
Jim Gaffney Left Legacy of Friendship
Jim Gaffney’s life, not his legacy, came to an end after a prolonged illness on Thursday, Jan. 31. He was 74. His legacy of civil service, friendship...
Armstrong Stambaugh Jr. Was Devoted Husband, Family Man
Armstrong A. Stambaugh Jr., World War II naval veteran, Harvard Business School instructor, oil company executive, restaurant executive and a loving...
Bruce Anderson Was Boat Builder and Sailor
Bruce Robert Anderson, 72, an avid sailor who was in the first wave of high-tech executives, died on Jan. 27 at his home in Harvard surrounded by his...
Walter Pizzano Sr.
Walter Pizzano Sr. of Edgartown died peacefully at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on Saturday, Feb. 2 after a prolonged illness. He was 84....
Michael Syslo
Michael J. Syslo of Chilmark died suddenly at Tobey Hospital in Wareham on Jan. 29. He was 60. A service is being planned at a later date and time,...
Linda Marinelli Was Longtime Community Leader
Linda Marinelli, a longtime Oak Bluffs selectman who chronicled her life as a community leader and firebrand in a colorful memoir called Never Say...
Nelson Potter, 70, Was Man of Many Talents
Nelson W. Potter of Chilmark died Jan. 23 in Cambridge, after a courageous four-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 70. Nelson was...
Frances Barnard Loved Great Outdoors
Frances Barnard, a longtime summer resident of Edgartown and Chappaquiddick, died on Jan. 22 in Gladwyne, Pa., following complications from a stroke...
Sylvia Lee Weiss, 80, Loved the Library
Sylvia Lee (Day) Weiss of Oak Bluffs died Jan. 28, 2013 after a short illness. She was predeceased by her husband, Robert Stoddard Weiss, in December...