Obituaries
Mary Jean Eglinas Inspected Goodyear Wartime Blimps
Mary Jean Eglinas of Gainesville, Fla. and Martha’s Vineyard, died on Dec. 10, She was 92. Born July 5, 1919 in New Bedford, she was the first...
Cay Chamberlain Lived To Travel, Loved the Arts
Catherine Elizabeth Maxwell Chamberlain, a long-time Vineyard resident, died Dec. 28 in Virginia Beach, Va, at age 94.
Veteran, Italian Immigrant Carmine Monaco was 91
Carmine (Charlie) Monaco of Chicopee, Mass., died Dec. 22 at his daughter Karen Lodge’s home in Oak Bluffs, with his family by his side. He was 91.
Albert Cohn, Prominent Litigator
Albert L. Cohn, a prominent and prolific New Jersey litigator for almost 60 years who exemplified the old-fashioned generalist in an age of legal...
Eleanor Gadd, 90, Loved Family and Island Life
Eleanor S. Gadd of Bloomfield, Conn., and Chilmark, died on Friday, Dec. 16, at the Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield. She was 90.
Louise Hansen, Educator and Language Lover
Louise Hansen, a resident of Kendal at Hanover and a 41-year summer resident of the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs, died Dec. 27, surrounded by her...
Thomas DeMont Jr., Scrimshaw Artist Par Excellence
Thomas J. DeMont Jr. of Oak Bluffs, one of the country’s top scrimshaw artists, died on Dec. 15 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston...
Thomas DeMont
Thomas DeMont, a well-known Edgartown businessman and owner of the Edgartown Scrimshaw Gallery on Main street Edgartown, died on Dec. 15 at...
Mary Louise Osmers, 89, Had Gentle and Kind Nature
Mary Louise (Graham) Osmers died peacefully at Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Oak Bluffs on Nov. 29 at the age of 89. Mary...