Obituaries
Dorothy L. Tripp
Dorothy L. (Allen) Tripp of Somerset, formerly of the Vineyard, died on Monday, Jan. 3, at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River. She was 83 and...
Patricia Mello Was First Lieutenant Flight Nurse
Patricia C. Mello of Edgartown died on Jan. 2 at the Falmouth Care and Rehabilitation Center where she had been residing for a number of years....
Palmira Spencer, 93, Was Beloved Matriarch
Palmira (Pal) Elinor Spencer of Newport, R.I. died on Dec. 30 at the age of 93. She was the wife of the late Stanley Spencer Sr.
Marjorie Masek, Was Teacher and Artist
Marjorie Gibbon Masek died on Dec. 12 at her home in Vineyard Haven with her family gathered at her bedside, supported by Island Hospice nurse...
Helen White, 85, Was Independent Spirit
Helen P. (Benefit) White, 85, died peacefully with her family at her side on Dec. 29 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was 85. She was born...
Teacher, Storyteller, Chilmarker Barbara Lipke
Storyteller, teacher, great-grandmother, activist and kibitzer, Barbara Stix Lipke died on the morning of Jan. 3 of complications of old age. She...
Nathaniel Briggs, 92, Was Longtime Islander
Nathaniel W. Briggs died on Dec. 12, 2010 at the Windemere Nursing Home. He was born on Feb. 20, 1918 in Flushing, Queens, N.Y., son of Henry M....
Pianist Anne Gordon Was Translator, Music Teacher
Anne Welch Gordon, a resident on Eastville avenue for 27 full years of retirement and for summers since 1942, died on Nov. 23 in Oakland,...
Nancy Nagle, Matriarch and Reading Specialist
Nancy (Anne) Nagle, of Orienta Point, Mamaroneck, N.Y., and Edgartown, died unexpectedly on Sunday, Dec. 26 at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich,...