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SIMILDA "SALLY" I. POLINICK - West Warwick
SIMILDA "SALLY" I. POLINICK, 81, of Douglas Street, an assembler at Leviton Company in Warwick for over 43 years before retiring in 1996, died Wednesday at her home.
She was the wife of the late Paul Polinick.
Born in Coventry, she was the daughter of the late Aime and Angelina (Cormier) Beaudreau.
She was a lifelong resident of West Warwick. She leaves a niece, Bertha T. Knowles of West Warwick; and a nephew, Robert Beaudreau of Coventry.
She was a sister of the late Lionel and Ovila Beaudreau.
A funeral service will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from R. Potvin and Son Funeral Home, 45 Curson St., West Warwick.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Pleasant Street, West Warwick.
Burial will be in Notre Dame Cemetery, West Warwick.
10/11/97
BOUNXUNE SISOUVONG - Woonsocket
BOUNXUNE SISOUVONG, 50, of 498 Bernon St., an employee of Forte Cashmere Co. before retiring due to illness, died Thursday at home.
He was the husband of Khamsay (Siyarath) Sisouvong.
Born in Parksane, Laos, the son of Thiper Sisouvong in Laos, and the late Bourphanh Sisouvong, he settled in Woonsocket several years ago.
Mr. Sisouvong had previously worked for Consolidated Fabricators of Auburn, Mass.
Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Souvanh Sisouvong and Kongsy Sisouvong, both of Woonsocket; four daughters, Somchanh Sisouvong, Kongvet Sisouvong, Kongtev Sisouvong and Khanthong Morin, all of Bristol, N.H.; six brothers, Somphone Sisouvong and Sithidet Sisouvong, both of Woonsocket, Bounxune "B" Sisouvong of Orleans, France, Bounlomp Sisouvong and Davone Sisouvong, both of Parksane; and Phonsai Sisouvong of Vientiane, Laos; a sister, Khaysone Sisouvong of Parksane; and five grandchildren.
The funeral service will be held Monday at the Menoche Funeral Home, 76 Providence St., Woonsocket.
Cremation will follow at Swan Point Crematory, Blackstone Boulevard, Providence.
10/11/97
JOHN J. MARQUES - Fall River
JOHN J. MARQUES, 65, of 2054 North Main St., a furniture maker for the former Harvey Prober for 32 years, and an employee of St. Patrick's Cemetery for three years before retiring three years ago, died yesterday at Rhode Island Hospital.
Born in Fall River, he was the son of the late John and Maria (Cordeiro) Marques.
Mr. Marques was a communicant of St. Michael's Church.
He leaves a daughter, Delores Lemerise; six sisters, Antonia Martin, Irene M. Lopes, Joanna Medeiros, Evelyn Marques and Adeline DaLuz, all of Fall River, and Dot Pacheco of Westport; and a grandson.
He was the fiance of Geraldine Souza of Fall River.
The funeral will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from the Manuel Rogers & Sons Funeral Home, 1521 North Main St., with a funeral Mass at 10 at St. Michael's Church, Essex Street.
Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery.
10/11/97
GERTRUDE GORDEN - Fall River
GERTRUDE GORDEN, 81, of 45 Union St., Natick, Mass., died Friday at home.
She was the wife of the late Morris Gorden.
Born in Fall River, a daughter of the late Nathan and Lottie (Zais) Nulman, she moved to Natick five years ago.
Mrs. Gorden leaves a daughter, Roberta Hall of Framingham, Mass.; three brothers, Saul Nulman of Providence, Samuel Nulman in Connecticut, and Larry Nulman of Cranston; and a grandson.
She was the mother of the late Les S. Gorden, and sister of the late Shirley Coleman and Evelyn Katz.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at noon at the Max Sugarman Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St., Providence.
Burial will be in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Post Road, Warwick.
10/11/97
MARY LOUISE TAVARES - Fall River
MARY LOUISE TAVARES, 54, of 671 Middle St., a packer for Bomark Management and home health aid at Home Health Care Services, retiring due to illness four years ago, died Thursday at Southpointe Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center.
Born in Fall River, daughter of the late Jospeh J. and Maria (Vieira) Medeiros, she had been a Westport resident for 30 years before returning to Fall River.
Ms. Tavares was a communicant of St. Anne's Church.
She leaves two sons, Thomas Joseph Tavares of Fall River and William Botelho of Warwick; one brother, Richard Medeiros of Westport; one sister, Geri Bouchard of Tampa, Fla.; and three grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 8 a.m. from the Manuel Rogers and Sons Funeral Home, 1521 North Main St., with a funeral Mass at 9 in St. Anne's Church, South Main Street.
Burial will be in St. Patrick Cemetery.
10/11/97
ROBERT H. "BOBBY" LENTH - Foster
ROBERT H. "BOBBY" LENTH, 48, of Moosup Valley Road, owner and operator of The Valley Store since 1989, died Thursday at home.
He was the husband of Patricia L. (Moss) Lenth.
Born in Providence, a son of the late George Mason Lenth Jr. and the late M. Irene (Brayton) Lenth, he had lived in Foster all his life.
Mr. Lenth was an Army veteran of the Vietnam war. He had also worked for the Town of Foster Highway Department.
He was a member of the Moosup Valley Fire Department, a member of the Hamilton Lodge 15 F & AM and a member of the Moosup Valley Church.
He was an antique and classic cars enthusiast.
Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Peter C. Gardner of Aurora, Colo.; three daughters, Laura L. Peach of Exeter, Sandra J. Masterson of North Kingstown and Erin V. Broady of Foster; three brothers, George Mason Lenth III of Foster, William A. Lenth of Chula Vista, Calif., and Bernard R. Gunsten of Foster; a sister, Susan E. Wright of Chula Vista, Calif., and three grandchildren.
The funeral service with military honors will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Winfield and Sons Funeral Home, Route 116, Scituate.
10/11/97
Industrialist Angus G. Hebb, 71; kept 40-acre sanctuary of exotic animals
NORTH KINGSTOWN -- Six years before his death last Sunday, Angus G. Hebb opened his private 40-acre wildlife sanctuary to a Journal-Bulletin reporter. During the tour, Mr. Hebb emphasized how important his menagerie of rare and exotic animals was to him.
"I could've been a rich man, but I've spent all my money on this sanctuary," said Mr. Hebb, then still president of American Steel & Aluminum Corp., Cumberland. "You have to really devote your life to something like this, accept the losses, plan to die broke."
Over the years, Mr. Hebb had come to transform the acres of bogs and marshes into a preserve for more than 40 species of exotic birds and deer. And he had made plans, he said, for their continued care after he was gone.
Mr. Hebb said he had left the preserve and a stock endowment to the Audubon Society.
David Rodrigues, director of property for the Audubon Society, said Friday that the preservation group still expected to receive the property but was not sure whether Mr. Hebb had placed any conditions on the acquisition of the land in the year since he last spoke with Audubon officials.
"We were trying to talk about how to run the property in the future," Rodgrigues said, when Mr. Hebb's health failed.
Mr. Hebb, 71, a prominent industrialist and an environmentalist, died last Sunday among the birds he sought to protect after a long illness.
Mr. Hebb retired as chief executive officer of the American Steel and Aluminum Corp. in 1995 after more than 35 years at the company's helm.
During his tenure as president, Mr. Hebb turned the company into a profitable branch of a national steel distribution company despite the steady exodus of heavy-manufacturing companies from Rhode Island, said Walter Haas, the former CEO of United Steel and Aluminum Corp., American Steel's parent company.
"He was a tremendous leader in Rhode Island," Haas said. "His life was business and his sanctuary."
The son of a Vermont country doctor, Mr. Hebb had plans to follow in his father's footsteps. But after graduating from Bowdoin College, he went to work for a farm equipment manufacturer in Ohio.
In the late 1950s, he came to live with his uncle, Claurence Drummond of North Kingstown. The elderly uncle eventually deeded a 40-acre plot of pine forest, ponds and marsh to Mr. Hebb.
Mr. Hebb and his wife, Karin (Gerhard) Hebb, settled in North Kingstown's North Quidnessett neighborhood and transformed the tract into a sanctuary.
The network of nature trails was not advertised to the public, but visitors over the years included groups as varied as the Sierra Club, beekeepers, Brownies, schoolchildren and college students. He also occasionally hosted fundraisers for his beloved political and environmental causes.
Six years ago, he hosted a tour, picnic and ice cream party to benefit Common Cause, a government watchdog group of which he was a member. The party was held on a series of 20-foot-high walkways large enough to hold 1,200 people that provided a view of his menagerie of winged creatures.
Included in his collection were Hawaiian geese, whose numbers had dwindled to 17 worldwide, a pair of East African crown cranes, sand hill cranes, demoiselle cranes, black swans, trumpeter swans, whooper swans, emus and sarus cranes, the largest crane in the world.
He also introduced muntajac deer, European fallow deer and several species of endangered waterfowl to the sanctuary.
"He was an extremely dedicated environmentalist and his place was extraordinarily well kept," Lee Schisler, director of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, said. "He had such strong feelings for the birds."
Mr. Hebb often regaled his steel customers with tales of his birds and international travel in letters he'd pen to each one, his successor at American Steel and Aluminum, Michael Ryan, said. At Christmas, Mr. Hebb would deliver bottles of maple syrup from his home state.
When Mr. Hebb took over the business in the early 1960s, it was a fledgling company. Under his leadership, it grew into an $18-million-a-year company, Haas said.
Ryan recalled Mr. Hebb's influential status and the numerous appointments Mr. Hebb would make on Ryan's behalf to introduce him to the state's top business leaders.
According to friends and family, Mr. Hebb's passion and skill in his public life were as intense in his secret bird sanctuary, to which he devoted a small fortune to build and maintain. "To lose nature, you lose everything," stated a sign on his property.
In recent years, however, his battle with prostate cancer forced him to cut back on work in the sanctuary.
The state medical examiner's office confirmed last week that Mr. Hebb died of a single gunshot wound to his head. Police have ruled out foul play, saying Mr. Hebb left a note for his wife shortly before his death.
Mr. Hebb was a former board member of Common Cause, Save the Bay and the Rhode Island Zoological Society. He was a member of Audubon, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club and other environmentalist groups.
He was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and a former president of the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of former Gov. Philip Noel's Economic Renewal Council, the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council and the Avicultural Hall of Fame in Salt Lake City.
He was a former chairman of Operation Clean Government, a former director of the United Way of Southeastern New England and a Rhode Island Commodore. He was a member of King Solomon's Lodge of the F&AM.
Mr. Hebb leaves his wife, and a brother, Edwin Gordon Hebb Jr. of Westerly. He was the son of the late Dr. E. Gordon Hebb and Elizabeth (Clark) Hebb Chamberlain of Bellows Falls, Vt.
A remembrance service will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, 2115 Broad St., Cranston.
05/04/98
