Obituaries
Barbara T. Guernsey Was Theatre and Opera Lover
Barbara Thurston Guernsey, 85, known as BD, of New York city and a longtime resident of Edgartown, died peacefully in her sleep on Oct. 11. BD was...
James Oakes Was Federal Judge Appointed by President Nixon
By Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Judge James L. Oakes, a former Vermont state senator, attorney general and federal judge who was appointed to the U.S. appeals court by President...
Beulah Tingley Callaghan Loved the Camp Ground
Beulah Tingley Callaghan of Oak Bluffs and Venice, Fla., died Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was the widow of Joseph F...
Volunteer Elsie May Dail Enjoyed Island Beaches
Elsie May Dail, formerly of Fair Lawn, N.J., Oak Bluffs and lastly Miami, Fla., died peacefully on Oct. 16 in Baptist Hospital of Miami. She was 89...
Robert Straight Sanborn
Robert Straight Sanborn, 95, died Friday, Oct. 5 at the Windemere Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Oak Bluffs. Mr. Sanborn has been...
Bradford Norton, 89, Was Construction Supervisor
Bradford (Brad) Norton, a former construction supervisor at West Point Military Academy and a resident of New Windsor and Fishkill, N.Y., died Oct...
Wesley R. Winton, 63, Worked as Island Mason
Wesley R. Winton, 63, of Vineyard Haven died on May 30 in Boston after a long illness. He was born on Oct. 16, 1943 in Taunton, and went to...
Leonard Jason Sr.
Leonard Jason Sr. of Chilmark died Oct. 6 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was 92. His funeral was scheduled for the Chapman, Cole & Gleason...
Virginia Hackney, 49, Relished Vineyard Life
Virginia Hackney died peacefully in her parent’s home on the Vineyard early in the morning of Oct. 5, finally succumbing to pancreatic cancer after...