Obituaries
Muriel Lear
Muriel Lear Muriel C. Lear of Oak Bluffs died on Sunday, August 2 at the Falmouth Hospital. She was the beloved wife of Ulysses J. Lear. A...
Gerald L. Sullivan
Gerald L. Sullivan Gerald L. Sullivan of West Tisbury died at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston on Wednesday, August 5. A gathering will...
William G. Tapply Wrote Brady Coyne Mysteries
William G. Tapply, age 69, writer and professor of English at Clark University, died at his Hancock, N.H., home on Tuesday, July 28 following a two...
Paul Parks, Noted Engineer Devoted to Good Works
Paul Parks died at his home on July 31. He was born on May 7, 1923, in Indianapolis, Ind. At the time, the family home had no running water, heat...
Jacqueline Norton Jensen Dies in Santa Barbara
Jacqueline Norton Jensen died unexpectedly on Sept. 19, 2008 at her home in Santa Barbara, Calif. Jackie had just returned from her annual summer...
Robert Caldwell Jr.
Robert Caldwell Jr. Robert G. Caldwell Jr. died April 4, 2009. All his friends on the Island are warmly invited to join Bob’s family for a...
Carole Cowan Dunscombe, 51, Was Friendly Face in Katama
Carole Cowan Dunscombe died on June 7 after years of battling a host of illnesses. She beat the cancer that afflicted her some 25 years ago;...
Gregory Knapp Dies at 66, Was Generous, Patriotic
Longtime seasonal Vineyard resident Gregory P. Knapp of Edgartown and Osprey, Fla., died Friday evening, July 24, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. He...
Chief Financial Officer Jerry Downs Dies at 71
Jerome (Jerry) Downs, 71, a retired chief financial officer and longtime resident of North Conway, N.H., died July 28 in North Conway of heart...
