Obituaries
Columnist and Island Historian Isabel W. West Dies at Age 97
Phyllis Meras
Isabel White West, longtime Gazette columnist, author and Vineyard historian, died on Tuesday at Longhill in Edgartown. She was the wife of the...
Raymond F. Billings Jr. Owned Ray’s Tire Store
Raymond F. Billings Jr. died peacefully at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on April 29. He was born in Oak Bluffs on July 17, 1930, the son of...
Helping Others Was This Busy Firefighter’s Hobby
John J. Casey Jr. was born to Irish immigrant parents on June 6, 1923 in the Bronx, N.Y. and died June 7 at his home in Vineyard Haven. He was...
Lorna Tilton Flanders Gave the Sound of Music
Lorna Tilton Flanders died peacefully at home in Chilmark on June 2, surrounded by the people who loved her and things that she loved. A graveside...
Psychologist, Camp Leader Changed Children’s Lives
Meyer Rabban, a summer resident of Chilmark since 1976, died at his home in New York city on June 8, 2009. He was 90. He is survived by Elana, his...
Vineyard Haven Resident John J. Casey Dies at 86
John J. Casey, Jr., 86, of Vineyard Haven died Sunday, June 7, 2009 at his home on Carroll’s Way surrounded by his family. He was the husband of...
Barbara N. Hanover Dies at 78
Barbara N. Hanover of Oak Bluffs and Ft. Myers, Fla., died on Tuesday, June 2 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was 78. She was born in...
Helen Ford Spalding Dies at 87
Helen Ford Spalding died at home on May 26. She was 87. She was born on Nov. 6, 1921, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of Sumner and Helen (Jordan...
George Barnard Baker Was Devoted Husband, Father
George Barnard Baker of Great Falls, Va., beloved husband of 26 years of Susan Thompson Baker and the loving and devoted father of Elizabeth...