Obituaries
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...
William Cary Sibert, 86, Was Watercolor Painter
William Cary Sibert, 86, of Raleigh, N.C., died at the home of his daughter, Jane Colby McManus, on Dec. 13, surrounded by his wife Jessie and...
Gloria Ruth Sellers Was Active and Independent
Gloria Ruth Sellers died Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C. She was born May 13, 1926 as Gloria Ruth Schlosser in Greensboro, N.C. The daughter of Joseph...
Bertha Wadt Supported Democratic Politicians
Bertha Wadt died in her sleep on Dec. 7 at Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa. She was born in 1909, the second child of Leo and Helen Heimerdinger...
Thomas P. Mills Was Founder of Minnesingers
Thomas P. Mills, husband to his wife Arlene for more than fifty years, lost his battle with cancer Nov. 15 at their Port St. Lucie, Fla., home with...
Moses Malkin Made Aquinnah Summer Home in Life of Service
Moses M. Malkin, a longtime summer resident of Aquinnah and of Sun City Center, Fla., died Dec. 11 of heart failure. He was born on Sept. 18, 1919...
Everett F. Warner Sr., 87, Longtime Summer Resident
Everett Frazar Warner Sr. of Needham and Edgartown died of heart failure on Dec. 7 at North Hill in Needham. He was 87. He is remembered as a...
Rose M. Simonds Was Devoted to Faith, Family
Rose Millington Simonds died Dec. 4 following a lengthy illness. Born in New York city during the summer of 1918, and raised there, she was the...
Bernard Powers Sims, 86, Loved Words, Traveling
Bernard (Bernie) Powers Sims, 86, died Nov. 25 at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J. She died surrounded by her family. She was the widow...