Berkshire County Eagle
March 10, 1943
From Saturday EagleHerbert J. Marshall, 77, of 750 William Street, for many years engaged in the poultry business, died early this morning at the House of Mercy, where he had been a patient 11 days.
Born in Minnesota, Sept. 10, 1865, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Marshall, he came east at the age of seven and located in this city in 1880, where he spent the remaining years of his life. Mr. Marshall was educated in the public schools and graduated from Pittsfield High in 1884. For nine years he was employed by the former A. A. Mills store and sudsequently by Richardson and Boden. Many years ago he purchased the poultry farm wich he conducted until his death.
Mr. Marshall was a member of Morningside Baptist church and was a Director of the Federal Land Bank. Survivors are his widow, the former Clara Mason; two sons; Theron B. Marshall of Hinsdale and Graham H. Marshall of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Harold E. Cole of Pittsfield, and seven grandchildren.
Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Enlisted March 28, 1945
Discharged May 29, 1946
Serial # 445516
US Naval Reserve
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File
Name: Marcel Blanc
Birth Date: 8 Jun 1899
Death Date: 27 Sep 1987
SSN: 562036057
Branch 1: M
Enlistment Date 1:9 Jun 1942
Release Date 1: 27 Feb 1943
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Aurania from Liverpool, arrived 16 Jul 1903
Ship Fort St. George from Hamilton Bermuda arrived 9 Aug 1926
Ship Leviathan from Cherbourg france, arrived 5 Sep 1927
Ship Media from Liverpool, arrived 8 Oct 1949
Ship Gatun from St. Marc, Haiti, arrived 19 Mar 1950
Ship Britannic from Liverpool, arrived 27 May 1950
Ship Liberte from Southampton, arrived 20 Aug 1951
____
Boston Passenger Lists
Ship Arabic from Liverpool arrived 1 June 1907
52181. Constance Barrett Bicknell
New York Passenger Lists
Ship Conte Grande from Naples, Italy, arrived New York 7 Nov 1932
____
The Stuart News (FL)
October 3, 2003Constance B. Elwell, 94 of Stuart, FL, died Wednesday, October 1, 2003 in Stuart, FL. She was born in Boston, MA and lived in Palma de Mallorca, Spain for 30 years before moving to Stuart,FL where she lived for the past 25 years.
She was a home-maker. She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA in 1932. She was of the Episcopalian faith. Survivors include her daughter, Joan Terry of Stuart; son, Robert Elliot of St. Lucia, West Indies; grandchildren, Michelle, Tracy and Alison of West Indies, Louisa of Key Biscayne and Beth of Marbella, Spain; and 8 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husbands Robert L. Elliot and Thomas S. Elwell.
Berkshire County Eagle
September 27, 1944William Henry Hillberg, 73, of 103 Elizabeth Street, a retired commercial designer, died last night at his home, of a heart malady. He had been in ill health for 18 months.
Mr. Hillberg was born in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Aug 5, 1871, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hillberg. He was graduated from the Cooper Institute, New York City, and had lived in Pittsfield 40 years. He came here to take a position in the designing department of the Eaton Paper Corporation. He was with the company 38 years and subsequently in the mailing department of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company.
He was a member of the South Congregational Church, Crescent Lodge of Masons, and the Pittsfield Art League. Mr. Hillberg had been an exhibitor at a number of the league's art shows.
Survivors are his wife, the former Maud E. Barrett, one daughter, Mrs. Alvin S. Ryan of South Bend, Ind., and two grandchildren.
The Boston Globe
April 22, 1996Alvan Sherman Ryan, of Dummerston, Vt., a retired professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, died of an aneurysm Saturday morning at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. He was 83. Mr. Ryan was born and raised in Needham. He graduated from Needham High School in 1929 and from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1934. He received his master's degree from Harvard and a Ph.D in English literature from the University of Iowa in 1940
From 1935 to 1937, he was an educational adviser with the Civilian Conservation Corps. He taught English at the University of Notre Dame from 1943 to 1946 and also from 1951 to 1965. He served as acting chairman of the English department at Notre Dame from 1962 to 1965. Mr. Ryan was associate professor of English at UMass-Devens from 1946 to 1949 and a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College in 1949. He taught in the division of Humanities at Marlboro College from 1949 to 1951. In 1965, Mr. Ryan left Notre Dame to help form UMass-Boston, where he was chairman of the Division of Humanities and professor of English until his retirement in 1978.
Mr. Ryan was the president of the Indiana College English Association while at Notre Dame. He was a faculty fellow for the advancement of Education, visiting fellow at Princeton University, Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of the Saarland in Germany, and the chairman of the Modern Language Association national committee of doctoral studies of English and preparation for teaching. He also was the author of The Brownson Reader and numerous articles. His poems were published in many university publications. Mr. Ryan also was active in sports. He played football, hockey, and was a pole vaulter in college.
He leaves his wife, Pauline (Hillburg); a daughter, Christina of Northampton; a son, David of Dummerston, and two grandchildren.
The Berkshire Eagle
January 7, 1957Mrs Sarah P Barrett Richards(sic), 83, widow of Henry P. Richards, a former resident of Pittsfield, died this morning at the Laurel Heights Nursing Home, Huntington, where she had been a patient two years.
A native of West Stockbridge, Mrs. Richards, lived in Pittsfield for many years. The family residence was on Dartmouth Street. She was the daughter of George M. and Mary C. Broughton Barrett.
She leaves two sons, George Mears of this city and James B. Mears of Springfield, three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Union-News (Springfield, MA)
October 15, 1994Helen (Haytree) Mears, 94, formerly of 19 Green Meadow Lane, died Thursday in a Holyoke nursing home. Born in Adams, she attended schools there, and was a graduate of Dalton High School. She lived several years in Granby. She was a member of Second Baptist Church in South Hadley.
Her husband, George F. Mears, died in 1985.
She leaves a daughter, Janeth Shaw of Granby, six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Another daughter, Lois H. Trumbull, died in 1983.
New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919
Name: Ralph Emerson Clary
Birth Place: New York City, New York
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1899
Service Start Date:7 Jun 1918
Service Start Place: New York City, New York
Service Start Age: 19
Died Nov. 15, 1918 of wounds recieved in action
Unknown newspaper
Holyoke � Arthur J. W. Clary of 173 Beech St. died at his home Tuesday. He had celebrated his 97th birthday last February.
Born Feb. 11, 1870, he had been a resident here most of his life. He was one of the first drivers of the horse drawn trolleys to operate in Springfield and was aboard the first car to make its way up to State St. in that city.
Mr. Clary later became a conductor on the trolley line and was at one time a member of the security force at Hampden County Jail. He later owned and operated his dairy products business in Rhode Island and still later operated Clarys Battery Shop at Suffolk and Pine Sts. For 20 years.
He leaves one son Roy Clary of Pawtucket, R. I.
Unknown newspaper
Mrs. Effie M. (Stone) Clary, wife of Arthur J. W. Clary of 4 Chase avenue, died this morning at the Providence hospital after a short illness. Mrs. Clary was a member of the Holyoke Woman�s club, St Paul�s Episcopal church, Robert Morris chapter, OES, and the Holyoke Grange.
She was born in Springfield June 18, 1866 and resided in that city and Palmer the greater part of her life. She came to Holyoke 15 years ago. Her marriage to Arthur J. W. Clary was in July 1892 at Springfield.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Stanley W. of Washington, R. I., and Roy A. Clary of Pawtucket, R. I.
Newark Advocate
December 21,1960.Mrs. Mabel Cameron 85 of 69 Grandville St. died at 4:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Arlington Nursing home. Ill the past few years,she had been hospitalized and a patient in the nursing home two years. A native of Toledo, the daughter of Norman [sic] and Mary A. Wirick Nelson.
She was an only child born 25 Jul 1875. Mrs. Cameron was employed 25 years in the Frank W. Spencer Sr. family.A daughter Mrs. Esther Armstrong (Abramoska) died in 1928, and leaves three grandchildren.
52199. Esther Geraldine Arnold
The Chronicle Telegram
December 31, 1928Mrs. Esther Abromaska died at her home on the Oviatt Road In Bay Village Sunday at Eight o'clock in the morning at the age of thirty three years, five months and sixteen days.
The deceased is survived by her husband Henry and three children, Richard, nine; Robert, seven, and Dorine, two and her parents.She had been ill a week with the Influenza. She formerly lived In Elyrla for fourteen years and leaves many friends to mourn her death.