Obituaries
Douglas S. Woodward
Douglas Scott Woodward, 36, of Palm Desert, Calif., died Dec. 22 at his home. He was the son of Robert and Phyllis Sargelis Woodward of Reidsville...
Joseph David Stewart, 63, Buoyed Furniture, Lives
Joseph David Stewart of Oak Bluffs died Dec. 23, surrounded by his wife and daughters at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after battling lung cancer. He...
Oswald Wright Marrin Jr. Summered in East Chop
Oswald Wright Marrin Jr. died peacefully at home Dec. 19. He was born April 20, 1919 in New York city. He was the son of Jean Fyfe and Oswald W...
Peggy Jones, 85, Loved Chappaquiddick Home
Margaret (Peggy) Denham Turnbull Jones, 85, of Concord, N.H., and Edgartown, died Dec. 16 at Havenwood, Concord, N.H. She was the wife of...
Janet E.W. Gibbons, 91, Played Organ at Church
Janet Elliott Whitehill Gibbons of Oak Bluffs died Dec. 19 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after a brief illness. She was 91. Janet was born in...
Jean Knapp of Oak Bluffs Dies at 87, Family Near
Jean Murphy Clancy Knapp of Oak Bluffs, the wife of Dr. J. Walter Knapp, died Tuesday, Dec. 25 at her home, surrounded by family. Born Jean Agnes...
John E. Holmes Jr., 60, Kept the Horses Flying
John E. Holmes Jr., of West Wareham, died Nov. 21 at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston with his family by his side. He was 60. Born on...
Camp Ground’s Carl Anderson Was Friendly Sailor
Carl Branson Anderson, 80, lost a long and courageous battle to cancer on Nov. 20 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital with family and friends at his side...
Herbert Anderson Searle Came to Island for Family
Herb Searle died Dec. 12 at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. He was 92. Herb was born on Nov. 22, 1915 in Pittsburgh, Pa., to James Herbert Searle and...