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Wayne H. Heywood
ST. JOHNSBURY — Wayne H. Heywood, 79, of St. Johnsbury, died Tuesday morning, March 3, 2009, at home with his family by his side.
He was born April 5, 1929, in Woodsville, N.H., the son of Samuel W. and Ila R. (Joslin) Heywood. In 1947 he graduated from Woodsville High School.
Wayne then joined the U.S. Air Force, serving his country until 1950. On July 1, 1951, he married Della Nelson. They moved to St. Johnsbury, where he worked for the St. J & L.C. Railroad for 11 years. He then worked 22 years for the CP Railroad as a brakeman and clerk. Following his retirement from the railroad he worked for E.H.V. Weidmann in St. Johnsbury for 10 years.
He was a life member of the VFW Post 793 of St. Johnsbury. Family says he loved golfing and enjoyed fishing, hunting, camping with his family, walking, playing cards, feeding and watching birds and other wildlife, and spending time with his family.
He is survived by two sons and their wives, Kerry and Terri Heywood of Warwick, R.I., and Myron and Jeannie Heywood of St. Johnsbury; a daughter, Linda Brown and husband Richard of Orwell; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; a sister, Ora Pike and her husband Merton of Stowe; a sister-in-law, Hazel Joslin of Pike, N.H.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his parents; his wife, Della Heywood, on Jan. 17, 2004; a brother, Bernard Joslin; and a sister, Edna Blood, on Feb. 2, 2009.
Services will be private and held at the convenience of the family.
Donations made in his memory may be directed to Northeast Kingdom Audubon Society, 1302 Main Street, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819.
Ralph Coleman Hatstat
BRISTOL — Ralph Coleman Hatstat, 75, formerly of New Haven, died Monday, March 2, 2009, at his home in Bristol.
He was born June 5, 1933, in Worcester, Mass., the son of Ralph C. and Hazel E. (Bond) Hatstat Sr.
He attended elementary schools in Hubbardston and Jefferson, Mass., and Holden High School in Holden, Mass. He attended the University of Maine at Orono.
He married Mary Lu Page on Feb. 21, 1953.
He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He was employed at Morgan Construction and Arnold Greene in Massachusetts and after moving to Vermont was employed at Simmonds Precision, Drake Smith, Shea Motors and the Vermont Fish and Game Department, and was a lieutenant with the Addison County Sheriff’s Department.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Lu (Page) Hatstat of Bristol; four daughters, Susan Mackin of Colchester, Nancy LaPierre of Chicopee, Mass., Sally May and husband David of Jeffersonville, and Rebecca Gibbs and husband Kevin of Bristol; and six grandchildren.
A graveside service will be held 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, at Evergreen cemetery in New Haven, followed by a reception at New Haven Congregational Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Green Mountain Club, 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Rd., Waterbury, VT 05677.
Barbara Evans Handte
RENO, Nev./VERGENNES — Barbara Evans Handte, 77, of Reno, Nev., and formerly of Vergennes, died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, at her home in Reno after a short illness. She was born July 29, 1931, in Bellows Falls, the daughter of George and Dorothy Evans. She graduated from Vergennes High School and the DeGoesbriand School of Nursing where she received her RN nursing degree. Barbara worked in Brooklyn, N.Y., at Fort Hamilton Veterans Hospital.
She married John Handte of Brooklyn in 1958. They moved back to Vermont and Barbara worked as a critical care nurse at the Mary Fletcher Hospital until moving to Reno in 1974. She was a critical care nurse at Washoe Medical Center and Northern Nevada Medical Center until her retirement.
Barbara is survived by her loving sister, Joan Quesnel of Vergennes; her nieces, Stacy Paquin and her children Ryan and Kaelin of Panton, and Sasha Bradford and her children, Dustin, Dylan and Kyra of Vergennes; an aunt, Dorothy Bodette of Vergennes; special friends, Pat and Gerry Wager of Addison; several cousins in Reno and Vergennes; and a son and granddaughter.
She was predeceased by her parents and her husband, John.
Barb loved skiing, was an avid reader and enjoyed working in her yard, as she landscaped it all herself.
A memorial service for Barb will be held in May in Vergennes.
Memorial contributions in her memory may be made to Addison County Home Health, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753, or a book in her memory may be donated to the Bixby Library in Vergennes.
Donald Francis Xavier Frey
BRISTOL/BAREFOOT BAY, Fla. — Donald Francis Xavier Frey, 82, of Bristol and Barefoot Bay, Fla., died Friday, Feb 27, 2009.
He was born on July 22, 1926, in New Orleans, La., the son of Edna Rose (Reilly) and August W. Frey.
He attended middle school in St. Louis, Mo., and Chaminade High School in Long Island, N.Y. He graduated with a business degree from Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. He spent two years in the U.S. Navy.
In 1952 he married Dorothy Ann Johnson.
He spent many years as a Woolworth’s store manager in New Jersey and in 1976 moved his family to Bristol, where he owned and operated the Ben Franklin store. Family says he loved everything about Vermont but after the loss of his wife Dorothy in 1997 and Vermont’s long winters, decided to live in Florida during the winter to enjoy the warmth and social life with his friends and siblings.
He is survived by four sons, Michael and wife Grace of Cedar Grove, N.J., Timothy and wife Maryann of Clifton, N.J., Dennis and wife Liz of Durham, N.C., and Andrew and wife Karen of Farmington Hills, Mich.; two daughters, Mary Jeanne Livingston and husband Stan of Bristol, and Kathleen Clark and husband Martin of Monkton; and 15 grandchildren. He is also survived by sister Mary Catherine Meehan and brothers Thomas and Robert Frey of Florida, and brother Joseph Frey of Long Island, N.Y.
He was predeceased by two brothers, Jack and Richard Frey, and two sisters, Rose Edna Frey and Eileen Heffernan.
Visiting hours will be held Sunday, March 8, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the home of Mary Jeanne Livingston at 1531 Hardscrabble Rd. in Bristol. A funeral Mass will be held Monday, March 9, at 11 a.m. at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Bristol. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice.
Paul S. Eriksson
SALISBURY — Paul S. Eriksson, publisher, editor, author, raconteur, bird naturalist and Frisbee pioneer, died on Dec. 4, 2008, in Rutland Regional Medical Center. He was 92. The cause was pneumonia and attending complications.
He was born in East Templeton, Mass., the youngest of five children of Swedish parents from Finland and their only child born stateside. His father, Evert Viktor Eriksson, became widowed when Paul was two and raised the children singly in Gardner and Worcester, Mass., while conducting a busy contracting and architecting concern.
At age 10, Paul was given a pair of pigeons. He trained them to race, and bred them. They were the first of many homing pigeons he raced before going away to college and they awakened a lifelong passion for birds and bird life.
Following his days of Worcester North High basketball excellence and making lifelong friends, and after a struggle for funds, Paul entered Middlebury College in 1936. He majored in English and continued to star at basketball, was clerk, then manager, of the college bookstore for three years, joined Delta Upsilon and was chosen by Waubanakee.
When in the summer of 1938 he and three other members drove to a DU convention in Nebraska, they found a Frisbie Company pie tin in a field and tossed it around, starting the game they took back to Middlebury. “Frisbie,” later marketed as “Frisbee,” as we know it today, spread fast to fraternities and to other colleges. A statue commemorating the game’s genesis (by Patrick Villiers Farrow, commissioned in 1989) stands today some steps south of Middlebury’s Munroe Hall.
After graduation, Paul worked a year in New York at the Macmillan Company as a college traveler, then left to be married to Peggy Woods ’42, by Middlebury College president Paul D. Moody in the college chapel; she would be the first matriculated student granted a degree from the college as a married woman. During her senior year, they lived off campus. Paul did graduate studies, and publicity work for the Middlebury Register. When World War II broke out Paul joined the Army where he taught in the pigeon section of the Signal Corps, took Scandinavian studies and radio theory at Grinnell College, Iowa, and did code work in Texas, New Guinea, and the Philippines. He arrived in Japan the day the peace treaty was signed.
In New York after the war Paul was an editor at the John Day Company and worked alongside Richard Walsh and his wife Pearl S. Buck (author of “The Good Earth”); then he became publicity director at G.P. Putnam and Sons. In the late fifties, he published his first few books under the imprint Eriksson-Taplinger, predecessor of Paul S. Eriksson, Inc. (later, Paul S. Eriksson). Among them were “Give Us the Tools,” by Henry Viscardi Jr., with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, and “Little Arthur’s Guide to Humbug,” by C.E. Vulliamy, with an introduction by C. Northcote Parkinson. It was the start of five decades of independent publishing — a perfect career for Paul, sleuthing for good books (human interest, social conscience, fine fiction, birds) with sociable business luncheons (he’d say, “martini luncheons”) and all the plan-making he loved for producing a book.
Some of Paul’s publishing reflected his interest in bird life, with several titles, including his own “Bird Finder’s 3-Year Notebook” and “A Treasury of Birdlore,” edited by Joseph Wood Krutch and himself, called by Audubon Magazine “one of the most readable anthologies on natural history ever published.” Other titles are “Flight of the Storm Petrel,” by R.M. Lockley; “The Hunt for the Whooping Cranes,” by J.J. McCoy; “Keep Your Pigeons Flying,” by Leon F. Whitney; and “An Eagle Named Bart,” by William R. Vasquez. Always behind these books was a man as committed to, as he was excited about, their subjects. Lincoln resident Alan Pistorius, coeditor with Eriksson of “A Treasury of North American Birdlore,” writes: “Paul’s fondness for birds, starting with a boyhood hobby raising and flying pigeons, never faltered. Wherever he and Peggy traveled, often, ostensibly at least on publishing business, he always found time to grab the binoculars and head out to the nearby coastal marsh or mountain meadow or urban park to sample the avifauna. Just months before his death, Paul was still enjoying ‘drive-arounds’ with birder friends, searching Dead Creek and Champlain Valley back roads for birds common and rare, while stories of birding coups of long ago circulated around the car.”
In addition to books about bird life the company published a number of other subjects: “A Thousand Springs,” by Anna Chennault, with introduction by Lin Yutang; “Three Alexander Calders,” by Margaret Calder Hayes, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley; a highly praised novel by Richard Hawley, “The Headmaster’s Papers”; “Steinbeck and Covici: A Friendship,” by Thomas Fensch; “Beloved Island: Franklin and Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello,” by Jonas Klein, with an introduction by Hon. George Mitchell; “John Ransom’s Andersonville Diary,” with an introduction by Bruce Catton; “Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography”; “Book Banning in America,” by William Noble; “Addison County Justice,” by Peter Langrock, with an introduction by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy; “It’s a Pig World Out There!” by Phyllis Demong; “Gil Hodges: The Quiet Man,” by Marino Amoruso, with an introduction by Pee Wee Reese; and “The Revenge of the Fish God: Angling Adventures Around the World,” by Carl von Essen, M.D.
In 1976, the company moved from New York to an office in the Battell Building in the town of Middlebury. The family’s house on Lake Dunmore became a full-time home with a small office for the publishing business. Paul leaves his wife Peggy, their daughter Kristin Mitchell, daughter Gretchen Margetson and her husband Neil, and son Stephen and his wife Donna Noble. He leaves two granddaughters, Erika Mitchell and Arlen Margetson.
Time and place for a memorial gathering will be announced in the spring.
Harold Francis Carey
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Harold Francis Carey, 91, of Newtown, Conn., died peacefully at home on Feb. 26. He was born September 25, 1917, the son of Wilbur Watson Carey and Bridget (Hughes) Carey.
He attended Danbury Teacher’s College (now Western Connecticut State College) where he met Ann, his wife of 66 years, and left to serve in the Army during World War II. After the war, he sold textbooks in the state of Washington before returning to Connecticut and opening the Carey Insurance Agency, which he ran until his retirement.
Family says he believed in living life to the fullest and shared his great love of nature through photographs, painting and stories. When his children were young, he took the family camping in New England and New York. In 1963 the family camped around the country, visiting national parks and traveling 10,000 miles in the car. In later years, he traveled to Italy, France, Canada and Ecuador. Until he was 75, he hiked in Austria, Switzerland, Scotland and Greece. According to family, he was equally comfortable skiing a mountain, sailing a lake, reading a book or eating good food, and the biggest joy in his life was spending time with his wife, Ann.
Harry is survived by Ann (Titsworth) Carey; his children, Sas Carey of Middlebury, Jason Carey and wife Carolyn of Cornwall, Julia Carey Petro of Briarcliff, N.Y., Joan Elizabeth Carey and her husband Andrew Baron II of La Plume, Penn., and Thomas David Carey and his wife Patricia Honan Carey of Westport, Conn.; and his sister, Marian Marinelli of Ridgefield, Conn. He leaves 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren
He was predeceased by his sister, Ruth Carey Favreau, and his brother, Arthur Carey.
A celebration of his life was held in Newtown, Conn., on Feb. 28, with his grandson Peter Carey and granddaughter Sara Baron officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association or charity of your choice.
Ruth Stuart Sullivan
STARKSBORO — Ruth Stuart Sullivan, 93, passed away peacefully on April 6, 2009, at her home in Starksboro with her son Bill and her caretaker Janice Bruno in attendance. Born March 14, 1916, in Stamford, Conn., she was the daughter of the late Charles and Ella Condon Livingstone.
Ruth was a registered nurse for the Westchester Health Department for 25 years until her retirement. She was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in WWII in the Nursing Corps. She was a graduate of Stamford High School, Stamford School of Nursing and became a registered nurse graduating with a B.S. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Ruth was a member of St. Mary Roman Catholic Church and its prayer groups and was a eucharistic minister there as well as a former religious teacher. She also was a member of the Connecticut Nurses Association and ran support groups for families of alcoholics.
She is survived by her son, William C. Sullivan; his former wife, Marilyn Barbato; two granddaughters, Anne Catherine Sullivan and her partner, John Lincoln; and Lincy Sullivan and her daughter, Alexandra Dorce.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Thomas E. Sullivan, in 1980.
A Mass of Christian burial was held at St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in Bristol. A graveside service will be held at St. John Roman Catholic cemetery in Darien, Conn., on Thursday, April 9, at 10 a.m. with Rev. Arthur Mollenhauer officiating. Connecticut arrangements are being handled by the Nicholas F. Cognetta Funeral Home & Crematoryin Stamford. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice Volunteer Services, 63 Maple Street, Middlebury, Vermont 05753. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.cognetta.com.
Janet Twichell Singley
MIDDLEBURY — Janet Twichell Singley, 87, originally from Belle Mead, N.J., died March 7, 2009, at the Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.
She was born in Pullman, Wash., Jan. 25, 1922, the daughter of Col. Heath and Frances (Marvin) Twichell. Due to her father’s peripatetic career, she lived in a number of states and countries growing up.
She graduated from Penn State College, where she trained for the WACs and learned to fly single-engine planes. She married Mark E. Singley in 1942. During the war he, an engineer and lieutenant in the Navy, designed ships at the Camden Naval Yard, where she served as a draftsperson and had the honor of launching a ship.
After raising her family, she received a master’s degree in art from Douglass College. She went on to teach art at Immaculata High School in Somerville, N.J.
A gifted painter, she painted and sold well over a hundred oils, acrylics and watercolors.
Her husband designed extensive bookshelves into the Belle Mead farmhouse renovations so that she could create the Hillsborough Public Library, which was stocked via monthly bookmobile visits. As Hillsborough grew from a community of a few scattered farms to a sprawling suburb, she, as chairwoman, oversaw her library’s move to a public room in the corner shopping center, then finally to its present 10,000 square foot home in the Hillsborough Municipal Building.
She and her husband traveled extensively in their later years, visiting England, France, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Spain and Russia. The Singley family spent their summers on Long Lake, Maine, for the last five decades, and drove the entire length of the Alcan Highway in 1968. Her father, an Army Corps engineer, was responsible for the construction of virtually all the bridges on the highway, as described in “Northwest Epic.”
She is survived by her brother, Heath Twichell; her sister, Ruth Cochrane; her daughter, Frances Mercade; and her two sons, Donald and Jeremy. Jeremy has lived in the Middlebury area with his family since 1974.
She was predeceased by her husband Mark and her son Paul.
Barry Lee Messenger
MINEVILLE, N.Y. — Barry Lee Messenger, 54, died April 2, 2009, in Mineville, N.Y., after a very short illness.
He was born in Hartford, Conn. He worked for DACO Construction as a foreman. He also worked as a carpenter. He moved to Middlebury in 1998 with his partner Shirley Kitchell. In 2004 he moved to Mineville, N.Y. He belonged to the Sons of the American Legion Post 27 in Middlebury and the Sons of Auxiliary at the VFW in Middlebury. His favorite activities included hunting, fishing, bowling and traveling.
He is survived his partner, Shirley Kitchell; his son, Raymond Messenger; and his daughter, Lauren Messenger.
He wss predeceased by his brother, Johnny; his father, Raymond; and his mother, Caroline, from West Granby, Conn.
At his request, there will be no calling hours or services.
Mildred W. Huckabay
VERGENNES — Mildred W. Huckabay, 91, died Friday, April 3, 2009, in Vergennes.
She was born April 11, 1917, the fourth of six children of Arthur and Delia Willard, in the Mud City area of Morrisville.
She graduated from People’s Academy in 1933 and attended Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Mass. She worked for the phone company in Morrisville and Burlington before the war. During World War II, she served in the U.S. Navy, working as a control tower operator. After the war, she worked for General Electric in Ludlow, Vt., Schenectady, N.Y., and Oakland, Calif.
In 1955, she married George W. Huckabay in California and they raised their son Bill. In 1970, she returned to school to earn a nursing degree and worked for many years in nursing homes in California and Vermont. In 1987, she retired to Vermont and lived in her parents’ home in Vergennes until 2005.
She is survived by her sister, Lorraine Parker of Springfield; her son, Bill Huckabay and his wife Lucie of Vergennes; and two grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husband, George; three brothers, Edgar, Ralph and Keith; and a sister, Gladys.
The family would like to extend special gratitude to the staff of the Vergennes Residential Care Home.
Funeral services were held Monday, April 6, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes, with interment in Prospect cemetery in Vergennes.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Addison County Humane Society, 236 Boardman St., Middlebury, VT 05753, or Addison County Home Health & Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.
