Obituaries
Charles Hunter, Physician Was a Tuskegee Airman
Dr. Charles Hatch Hunter, who practiced in the Washington, D.C., area for most of his medical career, died April 8 in Silver Spring, Md. He was an...
Alice M. Hafner
Alice M. Hafner of Vineyard Haven died at her home on June 28. Visiting hours will be held at the Chapman, Cole and Gleason Funeral Home, Oak...
Richard Steele, 59, Loved Island Swimming, Biking
Richard F. Steele, who spent summers in Oak Bluffs with his family in the 1950s and 1960s, and who for the last 15 years was a fulltime resident of...
Rev. Henry Ashe Tilghman Loved Chappaquiddick
The Rev. Henry (Hal) Ashe Tilghman died June 14 at Valley Terrace in Wilder, Vt., after a brief illness. He was 87. Hal was born May 27, 1921, in...
Viet Nam War Veteran Peter M. Burt Dies at 66
Peter M. Burt of Lighthouse Point, Fla., died June 19 from complications following surgery. He was 66. He was the son of Margaret Abbe Burt and...
Madeline J. Jernegan
Madeline J. Jernegan of Largo, Fla., died June 19. She was 93. She was born in Salem and moved to Largo in 1980 from the Vineyard, where she worked...
Jeremias (Jerry) M. Vieira of Norton Dies at 70
Jeremias (Jerry) M. Vieira of Norton, formerly of the Vineyard, died on June 19 surrounded by his family at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Erik Pfau, 99, was International Executive, Active Volunteer
Erik Pfau, an Island resident for the past 42 years, died Saturday, May 31 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital of pneumonia. He was 99. A man of great...
Desmond W. Margetson was Engineer, Inventor, Athlete
Desmond Willoughby Margetson died on May 28 at Calvary Hospital, Bronx, N.Y., after an extended illness. He was laid to rest in Oak Grove...