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Clarence E. Tibbetts
CONWAY - Clarence E. Tibbetts, 71, of Conway, died April 6, 2000 at the Sunbridge Rehabilitation Center in North Conway, following a long illness. Born in Brownfield, Maine, the son of Lewis and Anne (MacDonald) Tibbetts, he had been a lifelong resident of the Mount Washington Valley. Recently he had been wintering in Mims, Fla.
Mr. Tibbetts had been a painting contractor for over 35 years.
He had been a member of the former International Order of Red Men in Conway; a former member of the board of directors of Boy Scout Troop No. 321 in Bartlett and a former member of the North Conway Fire Department. He had also been a member of the North Conway Rotary Club, a member of the Mount Washington Valley Snowmobile Club and a member Lake Umbagog Jet Setters.
The family includes: four sons, Malcolm A. Tibbetts of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Larry E. Tibbetts of Hudson, Rickie L. Tibbetts and Carl Tibbetts of North Conway; two daughters, Diane M. Caddell of Kennebunkport, Maine and Donna L. Smith of Exeter, 14 grandchildren; one great grandchild; a sister, Sylvia McCormack of Tamworth; a brother, Robert Tibbetts of Conway and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at the First Church of Christ Congregational in North Conway with the Rev. William P. Gardener officiating. Burial will be in Kearsarge Cemetery. Visiting hours will be Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway. Donations may be sent to Jen's Friends, P.O. Box 1842, North Conway 03860.
Rowena J. Karz
GLEN - Rowena J. Karz, 71, of Glen, died April 4, 2000 at The Memorial Hospital in North Conway, following a long illness. Born in North Conway, the daughter of Frank and Alice (Colson) Hill, she had lived in Hollywood, Fla. and Cumberland, R.I. for several years. Before moving to Bartlett in 1985, she had lived in Dover for 25 years.
She was an avid bingo player.
The family included: a son, John J. Karz of Glen; a daughter, Anna Marie Hill of Glen; three granddaughters, Kimberly J. Hill of Albany, Linda A. Hill of Madison and Martha A. Hill of Albany; three great grandchildren; her mother, Alice C. Stipps of Hollywood, Fla.; two sisters, Eunice Garland of Glen and Helen Towle of Miami, Fla., and several neices and nephews.
Her husband, John Karz, and her sister, Shirley Stone, predeceased her.
Visiting hours wil be held today from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Furber and White Funeral home in North Conway. Graveside services to be held later.
Donations may be sent to the American Cancer Society, care of Yvette Levesque, Volunteer Memorial Chairperson, P.O. Box 214, Glen, N.H. 03838-0214.
Margaret C. Bean
CONWAY - Margaret C. Bean, 86, of North Conway, died April 5, 2000 at the Merriman House in North Conway, following a long illness. Born in Boston, Mass. the daughter of William and Georgia (Brooks) Caddick, she moved to North Conway in 1914. Mrs. Bean lived in Dover from 1940 to 1951 and then moved back to North Conway in 1951. She then lived in Conway for 14 years before becoming a resident of the Merriman House in 1995.
She graduated from Kennett High School, Class of 1932 and graduated from the Rainbow Beauty Shop in Portland, Maine in 1934.
While in high school Margaret studied vocal music with Frederic Warren of New York City and while attending school in Portland, Maine she was a member of the Portland Choristers and sang in many plays and of the local radio.
Mrs. Bean owned and operated the former Colonial Beauty Shop in North Conway for 26 years before retiring in 1980.
She had been active in the Dover PTA, and a Girl Scout Brownie Leader. She was also a member of the First Church of Christ Congregational in North Conway for 61 years and had been a member of the former Washington Chapter No. 44 O.E.S. in North Conway.
The family includes: two sons, Charles H. Bean III of Conway and William S. Bean of Windham, Maine; five grandchildren; five great grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
She predeceased her husband, Charles H. Bean, Jr., in 1980.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 PM at the First Church of
Christ Congregational with the Rev. William P. Gardner, officiating. Burial will be in the North Conway Cemetery. There will be no visiting hours.
Donations may be sent to the Merriman House, P.O. Box 5OO1, North
Conway 03860.
The Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of arrangements.
Jessie M. Caswell
CONWAY - Jessie M. Caswell, 89, of 99 Mechanic Street, North Conway, died Tuesday, April 3, 2000, at the Fryeburg Healthcare Center in Fryeburg, Maine.
She was born in Dover on June 29, 1910, the daughter of Robert B. and Catherine (Mullen) Marnoch. She had lived in Dover for most of her life prior to moving to North Conway in February of 1988.
She was a graduate of Dover High School and McIntosh College. Mrs. Caswell was a lifelong member of the First Parish Church Congregational of Dover where she had taught Sunday school and was also a former Girl Scout Leader.
Prior to her retirement she was employed at the former Seavey Hardware Store as a bookkeeper for more than 25 years.
The widow of Philip P. Caswell, who died in 1979, she is survived by a daughter, Kate (Thomas) Cash of North Conway, a granddaughter, Kendall Kay, and a great-grandson, Griffin Kay, both of Sudbury, Mass., and several cousins.
In addition to her husband she was predeceased by a grandson, Thomas Q. Cash II who died in 1990.
Relatives and friends are invited to call Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Tasker Funeral Home, 621 Central Ave., Dover.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Tasker Funeral Home, with Rev. Robert S. Ervin, rector of the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, officiating. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery.
Those who wish are invited to make memorial donations in her name to the Thomas Q. Cash II Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 1255, North Conway, NH 03860 or to the Alzheimer's Association, 10 Ferry St., Suite No. 419, Concord, NH 03301
Tom Mahoney
An anniversary mass will be held for Tom Mahoney (1937-1986)
at the Our Lady of the Mountains Church in North Conway at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 15. All welcome.
Robert E. Bates
SANDWICH - Robert E. Bates, 92, Sandwich's celebrated "music man" who spread his own special joyful sounds of music to hundreds of audiences and performers for over 50 years in New Hampshire, died Monday, April 3, 2000, at Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro.
As one friend said years ago: "What makes Sandwich different is Bob Bates."
Even as his legs grew unsteady in recent years, Bates approached music with gusto and led his singers in charming, often intricate and always entertaining performances. He was like a magician, stressing exactly the right note to cue in a singer, wielding his piano like a baton.
For the last six years or so, he would say, each year, "This is my final concert." But then another season would roll around and his favorite singers would urge him on - and there would be another final concert. Last Christmas, it really was.
Mr. Bates was born July 27, 1907, in Weymouth, Mass. Music was always part of his life, from the Harvard Glee Club where he first started doing Gilbert and Sullivan works through Cranbrook Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where he taught for years - and directed Gilbert and Sullivan shows.
Organ music was also a vital part of his life. Mr. Bates started playing church organs professionally at the age of 15, in fact, after about 60 years of it, he laughingly said: "If I don't quit soon my wife is going to leave me."
But he kept on playing and she didn't leave. He couldn't resist. He even played the old pump organ at the annual services at the East Sandwich Meeting House. In recent years, he was organist at the St. Andrew's Church in Tamworth.
The Bateses first visited Sandwich in 1949 on a summer break from Cranbrook and fell in love with the area. One day someone called Mr. Bates and asked him to do a program for Old Home Week. Discussing it with a friend, Mr. Bates recalled years later: "A light went on... We said, how about 'Trial by Jury'?"
That was the beginning of a long tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan in Sandwich. Everyone was welcome, young and old, summer folk and natives, big and little. "It was crazy," Mr. Bates said once. "The minute I hit the town line, someone would come up and say we've got a great tenor or we've got this girl or that guy... Crazy."
Mr. Bates also was a musical director at the Barnstormers Theatre in Tamworth, where his son, Robert V. Bates, is a regular performer.
Mr. Bates and his wife, Billie, retired from Cranbrook and became permanent Sandwich residents in 1976. They moved into a house on Plummer Mill Road with two pianos and boxes of records. Mrs. Bates died in 1995.
In the early 1980s Mr. Bates began a new musical tradition of annual Christmas Concerts by the Sandwich Singers. Over the years they performed in Sandwich, Tamworth, Moultonboro and Center Harbor.
In December 1984, Mr. Bates won the Quality of Life Award as the person in Carroll County who had given the most time and talent toward improving the quality if life for friends and neighbors throughout the community. He promptly sat down at the piano and led the guest at the ceremony in singing Christmas carols.
A former student wrote him recently, and, in words that reflected the feeling of Mr. Bates' many friends, said: "How deep are the roots you have planted."
In addition to his son, Mr. Bates is survived by a daughter, Linda Bates Terheyden, of New York City, and a brother, Paul Bates, and two grandchildren, Amanda and Jonathan Bates. A funeral service is scheduled for Saturday, April 8, at St. Andrew's Church, Tamworth.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Robert E. Bates Scholarship, a fund for students of the arts, PO Box 75, Center Sandwich, 03227.
Sarah S. Fenimore
TAMWORTH - Sarah S. Fenimore, 78, of Tamworth, died March 28, 200O at the Memorial Hospital, in North Conway, following a long illness. Born in Seaham Harbor, England, the daughter of John and Helen (Jordan) Sullivan, she immigrated to Detroit, M.I. in 1924. She graduated from Central High School in Detroit in 1938.
Mrs. Fenimore moved to Tamworth in 1990 to be near her family in the Mount Washington Valley.
The family includes: her husband of thirty-five years, Ervien S.
Fenimore of Tamworth; two daughters, Carolyn Entriken of Harrington Park, N.J. and Mary F. Ramp of Albany; a son, Bradley N. Ramp of Greer, S.C.; two stepsons, Ervien Fenimore of Hatfield, Pa. and Craig Fenimore of Carneys Point, N.J.; eleven grandchildren; a sister, Kitty Husk of Sun City West, Ariz. and many nieces and nephews.
Private graveside services will be held in the Tamworth Cemetery later in the spring. There will be no visiting hours. Donations may be sent to the Memorial Hospital, P.O. Box 5001, North Conway 03860-50O1.
The Furber and White Funeral Home, in North Conway, is in charge of arrangements.
Beatrice L. (McKean) Cottle
CONCORD - Beatrice L. (McKean) Cottle, 94, of Concord, died Friday, March 30, 2000, at the Harris Hill Nursing Home.
She was born in Easton, Mass., on Nov. 14, 1905, the daughter of the late Robert and Anna (McIntire) McKean.
Mrs. Cottle resided in Conway for many years, where she was employed by the Conway Supply Co., as a bookkeeper. She also owned and operated White Ledge Cabin in Albany. She lived in Loudon from 1975 to 1998, before moving to Concord. She was a member of the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Concord.
The was the widow of Louis Carpenter who died in 1961, David Senior who died in 1975 and George L. Cottle who died in 1995. She was also predeceased by a grandson Leon Carpenter.
She is survived by two sons, Leo Carpenter of Concord, and Warren Carpenter of Conway; a daughter; Jean Voitel of Colorado Springs, Colo.; 12 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Waters Funeral Home (www.legacy.com) 50 South Main St., Concord. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery, Loudon.
A memorial service will be held on Friday at 7 p.m., in the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, 199 East Side Drive, in Concord. Elder Philip Guckenbiehl will officiate.
Forrest G. Woodward
TAMWORTH - Forrest G. Woodward, 87, of Tamworth Road in Tamworth, died March 29, 2000, at his home.
He was born March 5, 1913, in Andover, son of the late Charles and Marion (Glines) Woodward. He had lived in Tamworth since 1934, previously living in Franklin.
Mr. Woodward was a self-employed electrician for many years. He was a member of the Tamworth Fire Department for many years, a national fire warden and advisory to the checklist in Tamworth. He was an outdoorsman, enjoying hunting and fishing.
He was pre-deceased by a son Howard Forrest Woodward in 1995.
He is survived by his wife Mary Elizabeth (Leavitt) Woodward of Tamworth; three sons and daughters-in-law Freeman and Jacquelyne Woodward of Tamworth, Robert and Sheila Woodward of Tamworth, and Melvin and Janyce Woodward of Bridgewater, Mass.; three daughters, Marilyn Elliott of Albany, Janet and her late husband Fran Sanborn of Tamworth, and Carol and her husband Richard of Tamworth; a sister, Myrtle Delude of Tamworth; 21 grandchildren; 37 great grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be held later in the spring at Fowlers Mill Cemetery in Wonalancet.
Donations may be made in his memory to the Tamworth Visiting Nurses Association, or the Carroll County Home Health Care.
The Baker-Gagne Funeral Home and Cremation Service of West Ossipee is in charge of the arrangements.
