Obituaries
Dawn Greeley, 59, of Chilmark was Artist of Local Renown
Holly Nadler
Dawn Greeley, artist and longtime Chilmark resident, died at home surrounded by family on May 9. She was 59. In an age of specialization, Dawn...
Martha Sinclair Carreau was Avid Tennis Player
Martha (Puddy) Sinclair Carreau of Oak Bluffs died at the Royal Nursing Center in Falmouth on May 7 after a brief but valiant battle with cancer....
Macio (Bunny) Jackson of Oak Bluffs Dies at 75
Macio (Bunny) Jackson died Jan. 27 in New York after a long illness. He was 75. He was born March 24, 1932, at Harlem Hospital in New York city...
Laura Fontes Garneau Worked as Hairdresser
Laura Fontes Garneau died May 5 at the Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton, Fla. She was 88. She was born on Feb. 14, 1920 in Vineyard Haven to...
Andrew F. Steele
Andrew Fleming Steele died in Falmouth on April 30 after a long illness. He was 96. In 1976, after he retired from his 43-year career as an...
Carabelle (Toni) Blake Neil Dies at 85
Carabelle (Toni) Blake Neil of East Chop died on April 5. She was 85. Carabelle, known as Toni, began visiting the Vineyard in the 1950s for...
Lois DeBettencourt
Lois DeBettencourt of Oak Bluffs died Wednesday evening, May 7 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her funeral mass will be held on...
Albert Alcalay, Prominent Contemporary Artist, Dies
Phyllis Meras
Albert Alcalay, oil painter, watercolorist, printmaker, sculptor, etcher, teacher of art and design and an Island seasonal resident since the 1960s...
Alvar Whittington Polk Jr. Served in World War II
Alvar (Jim) Whittington Polk Jr., a longtime summer resident of Harthaven in Oak Bluffs, died May 5 in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 94. He was born...