Obituaries
William J. Jorden was Gazette Reporter
William J. Jorden, U.S. ambassador to Panama from 1974 to 1978 and a former Gazette reporter and seasonal visitor, died Feb. 20 in New Bedford...
Eleanor “Mudd” Harz Jorden Dies at 88
Eleanor Harz Jorden, a summer resident of East Chop, Vineyard Haven or Chilmark all her life, died at home in Andover, Mass., on Feb. 18 at the age...
Islander Walter E. Bettencourt Lived a Life Less Ordinary
Phyllis Meras
Walter E. Bettencourt, for 27 years a member of the Gazette’s composing room staff, and for two of those years its superintendent, died Feb. 5 in...
Lorraine Armitage Dies
Lorraine Norton Armitage, 92, a resident of Windemere and formerly of Vineyard Haven, died on Tuesday morning Feb. 24 at the Martha’s Vineyard...
Margaret Mary Schnetke Dreamed of Island Living
Margaret Mary (Peg) Schnetke, 90, of Oak Bluffs died peacefully at her daughter’s home in Louisville, Ky. on Feb. 12. She was predeceased by her...
Ronald Ames, Vineyard Stonemason, Dies at 71
Ronald (Ron) Ames of Mashpee lost his battle with lung cancer and died peacefully in his home on Sunday evening, Feb. 22. Ron was a master...
Jeannette Boisvert was Active in Ministry
Jeannette M. Boisvert died at Windemere Nursing Home on Feb. 18 after a long illness. She was 79. Her husband, Louis E. Boisvert, predeceased her...
Judith Olson was Devoted to Community
Judith Helen Freiman Olson died on Feb. 25 at her home in Edgartown at the age of 66. At her bedside were her sister Susan and her husband Richard...
Philip Stone, Sailor, Dies in Mozambique at Age 55
Word reached the Vineyard this week of the death of Philip Stone, from complications of malaria in Xai Xai, Mozambique. A native of South Africa,...