Obituaries
Helen Vanderhoop Manning Was Historian of Wampanoags
June Manning
Helen Edith Vanderhoop Manning Murray died peacefully at home in Aquinnah on Jan. 25 following a long illness. She was an Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal...
Louise Aldrich Bugbee Wrote Well-Liked Column in Gazette
Phyllis Meras
Louise Aldrich Bugbee, whose columns about the Island she so loved enlivened the pages of the Gazette for more than 30 years, died on Sunday in...
Brandy Marie Gibson
Brandy Marie Gibson, 20, of Vineyard Haven, died at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital after a car accident on Jan. 30. A memorial service will be held...
Leslie A. Felix, 49, Was Chanel Representative
Leslie A. Rabbitt Felix, 49, of Sandwich died Jan. 26 in the Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis. She was born in New Orleans, La., and lived in Bourne,...
Catherine M. Munro
Catherine M. Munro of Spring Hill Road, Vineyard Haven died Jan. 30 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. She was 87. She was predeceased by her...
Richard G. Darman
Richard G. Darman of McLean, Va., and Edgartown died on Jan. 25 in Washington, D.C. A funeral service will be held on Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. at St. John’...
Jennie L. Lana
Jennie L. Lana, 91, formerly of Lobsterville Road in Aquinnah, died Jan. 30 at the Windemere Nursing Home, Oak Bluffs. She was the wife of Albert J...
Peter M. Williamson, Former Oak Bluffs Police Chief, Dies
Julia Wells
Peter M. Williamson, the former Oak Bluffs chief of police who served on the town force for 32 years, 28 of them as chief, died Wednesday at...
Islander Thelma Luce Baird Dies at Age 100
Thelma Luce Baird, formerly of Woodside Village in Oak Bluffs, died Jan. 22 in Windemere Nursing Home. She recently celebrated her 100th...