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Richard W. Mallary
BROOKFIELD — Former Congressman Richard Walker Mallary, 82, died peacefully at his home on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. He was born in Springfield, Mass. on February 21, 1929 the son of R. DeWitt and Gertrude Robinson Mallary. He moved to Vermont in 1942.
Mallary had a long and distinguished career in politics, business and agriculture. From his election as chairman of the Fairlee Selectboard at the age of 22, until his dedicated work in retirement on Vermont issues and public policy, he exhibited wisdom, a straightforward style and a dry wit. Mallary graduated from Bradford Academy in 1945 and received his degree in Philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1949, Summa Cum Laude.
His first career was in agriculture, owning farms in Fairlee and Bradford. In 1956 he became a partner with his parents in Mallary Farm in Bradford. That partnership thrived, with a herd of Holsteins that achieved national and international recognition. The partnership lasted until 1970, when the Mallary Farm herd was dispersed, in large part because of Mallary’s increasing role in public life.
He was first elected to the state legislature in 1960. In an unprecedented and historic turn of events, a group of young progressive legislators of which Mallary was a leading member — The Young Turks — took the reins of power in the House of Representatives. In just his second term, Mallary was appointed as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He was elected Speaker of the House in 1966, serving in that role during the first session following the reapportionment of 1965. He was elected to the Vermont Senate in 1968. In 1969, he served on the Commission on Administrative Coordination, redesigning government agencies and structure for the Deane Davis administration. In 1970, he left the Senate to become Davis’ Commissioner of Administration, becoming the first Secretary of Administration in 1971.
In September of 1971, United States Senator Winston Prouty died, and Congressman Robert Stafford was appointed to the Senate. Mallary won the special election to succeed Stafford in the U.S. House. He was reelected in 1972. He served during the tumultuous years of Watergate and Vietnam, building many national political relationships. In 1974, following the retirement of Senator George Aiken, Mallary ran for that seat, losing a close election to Patrick J. Leahy. Following his departure from Washington, he worked for two years for the Farm Credit Bank in Springfield, Mass., but then returned to serve again as Secretary of Administration, this time in the administration of Governor Richard Snelling.
Mallary’s career in business was focused on energy. He was Executive Vice President at Central Vermont Public Service in the early 1980s, then owned his own geothermal company, and finally served as President and CEO of the Vermont Electric Power Company from 1986 until his retirement in 1994.
Mallary served on many boards and commissions in and out of government, including the Business Roundtable, the Howard Bank, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Rutland Regional Medical Center, Snelling Center for Government, Gifford Medical Center, Shelburne Museum, Vermont Health Foundation, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, Vermont State Colleges, Vermont Judicial Conduct Board and the Vermont Higher Education Planning Commission. Locally, among other duties, he was chairman of the Brookfield Planning Commission and Town Meeting Moderator, a role he particularly enjoyed.
After 25 years, Mallary returned to elective politics, elected in 1998 to the Vermont House as Representative from Randolph, Brookfield and Braintree. He served one term, defeated because of his steadfast support of the Civil Union Law. He also served as tax commissioner during the early months of the Douglas administration.
A lifelong and loyal Republican, Mallary was consistent in his core beliefs, moderate to conservative fiscally and progressive in matters of social policy. Though born in Massachusetts, Dick Mallary was a real Vermonter, and wearer of many hats — all of which he wore with a distinctive thoughtful grace.
Mallary had a great love of the Vermont landscape. He loved logging and chopping wood. He enjoyed working his own local landscape, planting and gardening. He also had a passion for hiking, having climbed many of the most challenging peaks in the north woods. He was a wicked poker player, loved foreign policy, and belonged to local groups that specialized in each.
Mallary was married
to Mary Harper Coxe and they had four children: Richard, Anne, Elizabeth and Sarah. They divorced in 1974, and in 1979 he was married
to Jeannie (Loud) Brownell. He had three step-children: Jonathan, Lydia and Hayden, and between both families had many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Mallary is also survived by his brother DeWitt and wife Vera. He loved all of them dearly.
A commemorative celebration is planned for October 29 at the State House in Montpelier, and will be announced at a later date.
Arrangements are by the Day Funeral Home in Randolph.
Swayze Service
A memorial service for Cornelia DeNood Swayze, of Tunbridge, took place Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 at the Tunbridge Congregational Church.
The service began with soloists Maria Lamson and Lynsey Warren singing Bach Contata 78, accompanied by pianist, Maureen Burford. Rev. Diedra Ashton gave the opening words and prayer followed, with organist Judie Lewis leading the large congregation in singing the hymn "For the Beauty of the Earth." A nephew, Richard Clay, read Psalm 98 verses 4-9, and a niece, Mary Cornelia Plum, read Proverbs 31 verses 10-31. Daughter Nelia Swayze read the words from a Frank Sinatra song entitled "My Way."
The eulogy was given by daughter Hannah Swayze-Quinn and words of remembrance were shared by her nephews, her sister-in-law, Felicity Swayze, her sister, Lavinia Clay, and many friends. The song "Swimming to the Other Side" was sung by nieces Dawna, Olivia and Elizabeth Swayze. Her sister, Alicia DeNood Thornton, shared the closing words, "Thoughts About Our Future, " directed to her three grandchildren.
Immediately following the service, the congregation walked to the Village cemetery for the burial. After the burial, family and friends were invited to stay and share in a time of fellowship and refreshments which was held outdoors at the parish house.
The Cornelia DeNood Swayze Book Fund has been established at the Tunbridge Public Library. Arrangements were under the direction of the Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home in Chelsea.
Brian M. Edson
Brian Michael Edson was born August 27, 1955 and passed into the presence of God as the sun was rising on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Brian lived a wonderful life filled with much adventure and love. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his adoring family, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 56 years young.
Brian was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the third son of six children born to Russell and Eleanor Edson. He lived his early years in New York and then moved to Vermont at the age of 12 when his family became involved in the Vermont granite business. It was here that he met his wife of 25 years, Catherine Lynn Henderson. Brian and Catherine were married
at Grace Episcopal Church in Keswick, Va. on April 26, 1986 and their marriage was blessed with four children who were the delight and joy of his life.
Brian was a hard worker and a very disciplined man who pursued his life and education with great determination. After graduating in 1974 from Randolph Union High School in Vermont, Brian attended Castleton State College in Vermont and Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. Summers between semesters were spent earning school money on Cape Cod with his best friend, Catherine. His next academic pursuit was to be taken in St. Louis, Mo., where he attended Logan College of Chiropractic and graduated with his Doctor of Chiropractic in 1987. With a young family started, Brian felt he wanted to broaden his ability to serve in the medical profession. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Health Science with his Doctor of Osteopathy in 1993.
Commissioned as a Captain upon graduation, Brian served in the United States Army with further training at Madigan Army hospital in Tacoma, Wash. He also served as a General Medical Officer and then Chief of the Emergency Department at McDonald Army Hospital, Ft. Eustis, Va. He received the Army Achievement Medal for distinguished service and meritorious achievement twice. Brian made the decision to pursue a civilian residency for Emergency Medicine and moved his family to Greenville, N.C. to attend East Carolina University. He graduated his residency in September 2000 and became board certified in emergency medicine. Greenville had become home. The family became members of Covenant United Methodist church. Brian was employed by Emergency Medicine Physicians and served at Carolina East Hospital in New Bern, N.C., where he loved and cared for the wonderful people he worked with, as well as the patients he ministered to.
Brian’s love for baseball, especially his Boston Red Sox, as well as his love for the beach, especially Ocracoke Island and Cape Cod, provided his family with many fun filled memories to cherish. Recent summer trips to New England were memorable as he delighted in favorite activities of his youth with his brothers, walking in the beautiful Vermont woods gathering mushrooms and brook trout fishing. Brian was happiest enjoying his home and family, gardening and yard work, home movies, watching the birds, neighborhood friends, a good book and being “Uncle B.”
Brian was preceded in death by his father, Russell Charles Edson. Left to cherish many amazing memories are his wife, Catherine Henderson Edson, and his beloved children, Carolyn Hannah, Michael Stuart, Timothy Charles, and Andrew Connelly. He is also survived and greatly loved by his mother, Eleanor Theresa Edson; mother and father-in-law Stuart and Beverly Henderson; and his brothers and sister, Russell Charles Edson and wife Marla, Gary Thomas Edson, wife Patty and children Heather and Kyle, Guy Matthew Edson, wife Patty and children Sarah, Christopher and Olivia, Kathleen Edson-Davidson and children Emily and Elizabeth, and William Michael Edson, wife Terri and children Nicole, Hannah and Abigail, Jennifer Henderson-Bing and children Alex and Matthew, David Henderson, wife Donna and children Stephen and Charlie, and Andrew Henderson, wife Anne, and children Ashleigh and Christopher.
We would like to thank the many compassionate caregivers Brian had especially Judy Koutlas, RN and Deb Pomeroy, RN. You were both an answer to prayer as God worked through each of you in your care of Brian and our family.
A memorial service and celebration of Brian’s life will be Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. at Covenant Methodist Church in Greenville, with a reception following at the church. A private graveside service will be at a later date in Keswick, Va. at the church Brian and Catherine were married
in.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Greenville Little League, PO Box 20520, Greenville, N.C. 27858 or University Health Systems Hospice PO Box 6028 Greenville, N.C. 27835.
Dewey Services
Memorial services for Charles Walter Dewey, 94, of Randolph, who died September 21, 2011, were held October 7 at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Chapel in Randolph Center.
Rev. Kathy Eddy officiated and played the organ. Dewey’s daughter, Phyllis Kadlub, played the trumpet. The congregation sang “For the Beauty of the Earth” and “America the Beautiful, ” and Kadlub played “How Great Thou Art.” Several family members and friends, including Phyllis Kadlub, Rob Lavasseur, Marla Tillberg, Michaeline Kadlub, Christie Faye, and Clayton Butterfield, shared remembrances.
Military honors were accorded by the Vermont National Guard with Kadlub playing “Taps, ” and Randolph American Legion Post #9. A reception followed at the Langevin House.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Day Funeral Home, Randolph.
Lily M. Spaulding
Tucson, Ariz. — Lily May (Moxley) Spaulding, 90, died October 7, 2011.
She was born to Sarah Mayo Moxley and Guy Moxley, on October 29, 1920, in Chelsea. Her Moxley ancestors had arrived in New England in 1770, and fought in both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
She spent her formative years on a small farm in Chelsea, and, after graduating from Chelsea High School in 1938, she attended nursing school at Heaton Hospital in Montpelier, earning her R.N. degree.
Although her goal was to become an airline stewardess, which at that time required an R.N. degree, that goal was curtailed when, during the early years of World War II, she married
Lewis Spaulding, of Montpelier. The couple operated a restaurant in Bellows Fall, where their first son was born, then moved to Hartford, where two more sons were born while her husband served in the U.S. Army, and where, after his discharge, he operated a gas station.
When she wasn’t caring for her children, she worked as a nurse at the Alice Peck Day Hospital. In 1949 they moved to Randolph, where a fourth son was born, and where she worked as a nurse in Gifford Memorial Hospital. In Randolph, her husband operated various service stations, before finally becoming a fuel oil distributor.
In 1962, due to her health, the family moved to Arizona, living for a time in Safford, but primarily in Tucson. In Arizona, she worked as a nurse in various hospitals, including Tucson Medical Center, Tucson General Hospital, and the Veterans Administration Hospital. While in Safford, Ariz., she worked as a nurse in doctors’ clinics.
She was a lifelong member of the Congregational (UCC) church. She and her husband were founding members of the Church of the Painted Hills (UCC) in Tucson. At the time of her death, she was a member of Rincon Congregational UCC in Tucson. She was also a member of the Masons’ Eastern Star organization.
She was widely known for her cooking skills, which she shared at large family gatherings and at church events. Together with her son John, she co-edited a book of culinary history, “Civil War Recipes, ” which was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 1999, and is still popular among cooks, historians, educators, and Civil War reenactors.
She was precdeceased by her husband, Lewis; her half-brother, Frank Gilman; and her half-sister, Ruth Gilman Willis.
Survivors include four sons: Lewis, of Friday Harbor, Wash., John and Richard, both of Tucson, Ariz., and Norman, of Florence, Ariz.; six grandchild–ren: Laurie and Heather Spaulding of Friday Harbor, Wash.; Cylor Spaulding of Miami, Fla.; Scot Spaulding of Clovis, N.M.; and Christopher and Sarah Spaulding of Phoenix, Ariz.; and her six great-grandchildren: Ashleigh and Robert, of Friday Harbor, Wash.; and Alexis, Alyssa, Aleah, and Alivia, of Prescott Valley, Ariz.
A genuinely warm and gentle person and the heart of her family, Lily was deeply loved and will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Funeral services were held at Rincon Congregational Church in Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday, Oct. 16.
Barbara W. Moran
Vershire — Barbara W. Moran, 84, died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.
She was born May 10, 1927 in Melrose, Mass., the daughter of Fredric and Margarite (White) Moran.
She received her teaching degree and began a life-long career as a school teacher. Most recently, she served as a substitute teacher in at the Sharon Elementary School.
Survivors include a brother Nelson Moran of San Luis Obispo, Calif.; two nieces; and a nephew.
A private service will be held at a later date following her cremation. The Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home in Chelsea is assisting with arrangements.
