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Blanche L. King
DAMARISCOTTA, Maine - Blanche L. King, 86, of Damariscotta, Maine, died Sunday, July 30, 2000, at her home.
She was born in Needham, Mass., the daughter of David and Lillian Beastall Hamilton. She attended local schools and also graduated from Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School. She lived in Falmouth, Maine, for many years and was active with the Lark Society String Quartet. She lived in Damariscotta, Maine for the past two and a half years and owned a summer home in Center Chatham since 1960. Her husband, John E. King, died in September of 1999. She is survived by one son, D. Kenyon King of Center Chatham; one daughter, Joan Louise French of Colorado; one sister, Connie Hall of Exeter; four grandchildren; and one great grandchild.
A graveside service will be held Sunday, Aug. 6, at 2:30 p.m. at the Center Chatham Cemetery, with the Rev. George Westerberg officiating. Arrangements are with Wood Funeral Home of Fryeburg, Maine.
Marilyn (Smith) McDonald
ALBANY - Marilyn (Smith) McDonald, 59, of Cross Over Road, died suddenly August 3, 2000. She was born on January 2, 1941, the daughter of the late Raymond and Gertrude (Collie) Smith and had lived in the Conway area all of her life.
Marilyn loved animals and watching wildlife.
She is survived by her children, Cheryl Ames of Albany, June Smith of East Conway, Eric McDonald of Fryeburg, Brad MacDonald of Tamworth, Etta King of Knoxsville, Ark., Holly MacDonald of Conway and Leo Riel Jr. of Conway. She is also survived by a sister, Doris McKimm of Driftwood, Pa.
Calling hours will be Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Lord Funeral Home, 50 Moultonville Road, Center Ossipee. Graveside services will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the High Street Cemetery in Albany.
Iva K. Fox
NORTH LOVELL, Maine - Iva K. Fox, 82, a lifelong resident of Slab city North Lovell, died Friday, Aug. 4, 2000, at the Bridgton Hospital.
She was the daughter of Albert and Marion McAllister Kendall and was educated in local schools. She was a member of the Lovell United Church of Christ, and a former member of the Ladies Firemen's Auxiliary of Lovell. She enjoyed knitting and donated many pairs of mittens to the hospital gift shop. She also enjoyed flowers.
Her husband, Charles H. Fox, died in 1977.
She is survived by six sons, Paul C. Fox, of Monmouth, Maine, Fred C. Fox, Lawrence L. Fox and Stephen F. Fox, all of Lovell, and Albert J. Fox and Peter K. Fox, both of Stoneham; two daughters, Linda M. Allen, of Lovell, and Rosemary Stackhouse, of Bethel; one sister, Pauline Smith, of Lovell; 16 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.
She was pre-deceased by a sister, Esther Harriman.
A funeral service will be held today (Monday) at 2 p.m. at the Lovell United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Ronald Ashworth and Rev. Herb Adams. Burial will be in the West Lovell Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Wood Funeral Home.
Wesley S. Gleason
SARASOTA, Fla. - Wesley S. Gleason, 76, Sarasota, Fla., died July 28, 2000.
He was born Jan. 11, 1924, in Dover and lived in Alton Bay. He moved to North Conway in his teenage years and graduated from Kennett High School. He then enlisted in the Army Air Force, was a veteran of World War II, retired in 1962 and returned to North Conway.
During his years in North Conway he was a member of the First Church of Christ Congregational, the Mount Washington Valley Association, the North Conway Rotary Club, the North Conway American Legion and the Masons. He served in the Conway Police Department, the North Conway Fire Department, the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, on the Conway School Board, as a Conway police commissioner and as the North Conway Water Precinct commissioner. He was general manager at the Mount Cranmore Skimobile, then manager of Mountain Motors Co., and was later a salesman at Crest Chevrolet. In 1986 he retired to Sarasota, Fla.
Survivors include his wife Barbara Jackson Gleason.; a son, Scott of Westford, Mass.; two daughters, Sue of Nashua, and Sharon of Sarasota, Fla.; a niece, Susan LaBonte of York, Maine, two stepdaughters, Marsha Grawunde of Sarasota, Fla., and Karen Weglage of Miamisburg, Ohio; a grandson Shawn of Burlington, Vt.; and four step grandchildren.
At his request there are no memorial services planned. Memorial donations may be made to American Lung Association, 2201 Cantu Court, No 119, Sarasota, Fla. 34232.
Lewis E. Fernald
JACKSON - Lewis E. Fernald, 80, of Jackson, died July 29, 2000, at the Merriman House in North Conway following a long illness. Born in Jackson, the son of Arthur and Alice (Wentworth) Fernald, he was a lifelong resident of Jackson.
Fernald was a logger, farmer, carpenter and ski-lift operator. He had been a ski technician at the Jack Frost Shop in Jackson for many years and he worked at Black Mountain in Jackson for many winters as a lift operator. During the summer months, he mowed the fairways at the North Conway Country Club.
He was the Jackson fire chief for one year and had been a national forest fire warden for many years, during which time he fought many forest fires.
His happiest hours were while he was in the woods.
His family includes his wife Roberta (Illsley) Fernald of Jackson; a son, Arthur Fernald of Jackson; three daughters, Fedora Gatcomb of Jonesport, Maine, Rosalie Prince of Danvers, Mass., and Eleanor Speirs of Jackson; two stepdaughters, Anita Patch of Glen and Marion Morgan of Moultonborough; seven grandchildren; four great grandchildren; and a sister, Louise Gray of Eaton.
His first wife, Eunice (Griffin) Fernald, predeceased him in 1982.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Aug. 6, at 2 p.m. in the Jackson Community Church with the Rev. Sandy Kravate, pastor of the Christian Fellowship of New England in Center Conway, officiating. There will be no visiting hours. Burial will be in the Jackson Village Cemetery.
Donations may be sent to the Jackson Fire Department, Jackson, NH 03846, or to the Christian Fellowship of New England, Center Conway, 03813.
The Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway is in charge of arrangements.
Lilian Emily Wylie Emerson
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada - Lilian Emily Wylie Emerson, 92, formerly of Jackson, and widow of Dr. Ashton Emerson, died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 26, 2000, after a brief illness.
A family funeral was held at The Kearney Funeral Chapel in Vancouver on July 4, 2000.
A long-term resident of Jackson, Lilian was a dedicated supporter of the Jackson Community Church and of its sewing club and of Memorial Hospital in North Conway.
Born on March 10, 1908, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Lilian was the daughter of Joseph and Helen Wylie. The Wylies emigrated to Canada in 1913, and in 1914 Lilian's father joined the Canadian Army, serving in World War I. Joseph was wounded in England in 1916 and in order to reunite the family, the Canadian government sent Helen and her children back to Newcastle where they remained for the next three years. In 1919, the Wylies returned to Canada and lived in Montreal, where Lilian met Ashton Emerson, a U.S. medical student at McGill University.
Lilian and Ashton were married in 1941 and for the next 14 years they led a migratory life in the U.S. Navy. Lilian lived in Bremerton, Wash., and then in San Francisco, Calif., during World War II, while Ashton served on the Pacific. In 1945, the Navy posted the Emersons first to Newport, R.I. and then to Washington, D.C., where Ashton served as President Truman's doctor on board the presidential yacht, The Williamsberg. In 1952, Lilian went with Ashton to live in Naples, Italy, for two years, where Ashton served as Chief of Surgery at the NATO hospital.
In 1955, Ashton retired from the Navy, and the Emersons moved to Jackson, where they lived for 40 years, until Ashton's death in 1995. Shortly thereafter, Lilian moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to be near her large and loving family.
Lilian is survived by her sister, Mrs. Grace M. McKay, of Vancouver, British Columbia; her brother, Mr. Edward J. Wylie, of Vernon, British Columbia; by her sister-in-law, Mrs Mary Emerson Stevens, of Newfields, NH; by six Canadian and seven American nieces and nephews; and by numerous Canadian and American grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews.
Contributions in Lilian's memory may be made to the Jackson Community Church, or its sewing club, or to the North Conway Memorial Hospital.
Matthew J. Mattingly
CENTER OSSIPEE - Matthew J. Mattingly, age 24, of Center Ossipee, formerly of Brockton, Mass., died suddenly on September 29, 2000.
Mattingly was born in Louisville, Ky. and was raised in Florida. He had lived in Brockton, Mass. for many years before moving to New Hampshire last year. He was employed as a healthcare provider at the Lakeview Neural Behavior Center in Effingham Falls.
He was the beloved husband of Mindy L. (LeBlanc) Mattingly; father of Nathaniel S. and Alexander J. Mattingly; son of Wilbur L. Mattingly Jr. of Kentucky and Helen M. (Bertholf) Roberts and her husband, Lonnie W. Roberts of Dunedin, Fla.; grandson of Helen M. Bertholf of Clearwater, Fla.; son-in-law of Marjorie E. and Joseph A. LeBlanc, both of Weymouth, Mass.; brother of Sarah Lee Mattingly of Brockton and Mark E. Mattingly of Dunedin, Fla. Also survived by his best friend, Jeff Ortiz of New Hampshire.
A funeral prayer service will be held in the McDonald Funeral Home in East Weymouth, Mass., corner of Charles and Middle Streets (at Central Square) on Thursday, October 5, at 11 a.m. Relatives and friends invited. Visiting hours will be Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m.
Erich S. Koop
LOVELL - Erich S. Koop, 86, of Old Waterford Road in Lovell, Maine,, died on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2000, at the Bridgton Hospital.
He was born in Staten Island, N.Y., the son of Henry and Anna Heitmann Koop.
He graduated from Amityville High School and also from Bowling Green University. He was a World War II Army veteran, and spent the war in a U.S. prison camp as an interrupter.
He started his work career with Colgate-Larsen Co., then went to JCPenny Co. He later worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 28 years.
He was a past master of Amityville Lodge of Masons, and a member of the Kiwanis. He moved to Maine in 1969, and was predeceased by a son, Robert, in 1995.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Inez Gorsuch Koop of Lovell, and one brother, Andrew Koop, also of Lovell.
Services will be held at the convenience of the family; burial will be in 4 Cemetery in Lovell.
Arrangements are with Wood Funeral Home of Fryeburg.
Esther C. Levy
CONWAY - Esther C. Levy, 81, of North Conway, N.H. died September 28, 2000 at the Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine after a long illness. She was born in Westbrook, Maine, the duaghter of James and Emma Kinmond.
Her interests included golf, gardening, volunteer work, cooking, and she especially loved being with friends and family in the mountains surrounding her beloved North Conway.
Surviving are her husband of 40 years, William Levy of North Conway, N.H.; two sons, Ronald Collins of Melbourne, Fla. and Dr. Michael Collins Sr., of Arlington, Va.; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Dorothy LaChance of Scarborough, Maine.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, October 3 at 11 a.m. in the First Church of Christ Congregational in North Conway with the Reverend William P. Gardner officiating. Visiting hours will be Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway. Donations may be sent to the Alzheimer's Association, 10 Ferry St., Suite 419, Concord, N.H. 03301.
Joseph Roland Paradis
CONWAY - Joseph Roland Paradis, 71, of North Conway, died September 28, 2000 at the Memorial Hospital in North Conway after a brief illness. Born in Nashua, the son of Joseph and Alice (Prudhomme) Paradis, he has been a resident of North Conway for the past 15 years.
Mr. Paradis was a US Army veteran of the Korean War.
He had been the custodian at Carroll County Mental Health in Conway, for the past 15 years.
Mr. Paradis has no known relatives.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Furber and White Funeral Home in North Conway with the Reverend James Livingston officiating. Burial will be held in the North Conway Cemetery.
