The Stuart News (FL)
September 20, 2011FORT WORTH - Frank L. Perry, 93, passed away on Saturday, September 17, 2011.
Frank was born March 30, 1918 in Gardner, Maine.
He was a 1939 graduate of Dartmouth College, where he was a member of S.A.E. Fraternity, National Honor Society. He served in the US Army where he attained the rank of Captain in the Medical Service Corp. Frank's life long career in retail included being Vice-President and General Merchandise Manager of The Fair in Fort Worth and Stewarts in Louisville, Kentucky, and the first President of the Fort Worth Division of Dillards. He was most proud of establishing and successfully operating The Cosmetique of Vero Beach, Florida for over 30 years. Frank was a charter member of Ridglea County Club and a former member of Shady Oaks and Vero Beach County Clubs.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Hazel Perry.
Survivors: Daughter, Patricia Moore and husband, Ed; granddaughter, Whitney Elizabeth Harwell, her husband, Glenn, and son, William; grandson, Perry Jason Moore, his wife, Wynne, and sons, Joshua, Nathan and Asher; sister in law, Attlee Gardner; and nieces.
55695. Lawrence Dryhurst Cowen
The Gazette
April 5, 2009Larry died in Scottsdale, AZ, March 10, 2009 at the age of 85.
A native of Colorado Springs, he took over and grew the family business "Cowen Transfer and Storage" to a name known by all. Retiring in 1987 he eventually moved to Arizona with his wife Diane who preceded him in death by two weeks.
Larry is survived by his two loving children, Larry Cowen Jr. and Elizabeth Cowen Smisek, both of Colorado Springs. Six grandchildren, three step daughters, Chris, Carole and Cindy and their six children.
A man always concerned about family, friends, business and the country., he will be missed.
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
July 30, 2001MARJORIE ALICE COWEN LYNCH
Mrs. Lynch, 70, died July 27, 2001, in Colorado Springs. She was a homemaer and previous vice president of Cowen Moving and Storage. Mrs. Lynch was born Nov. 2, 1930, in Colorado Springs to Lawrence M. and Marjorie (Dryhurst) Cowen, who are deceased. She was married Dec. 29, 1956, to Robert J. Lynch.
She is survived by her husband; two sons, David E. and Robert D.; two daughters, Carrie W. Burris and Marjorie A. Fletcher; a brother, Lawrence D. Cowen; and eight grandchildren.
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
January 29, 2008Robert Joseph Lynch passed away January 25th, 2008, at the age of 87. He was a long time resident and business owner in Colorado Springs.
He is survived by two sons, David E. Lynch(Patti) and Robert D. Lynch(Ann) of Colorado Springs, two daughters, Carrie W. Burris (Mark) and Marjorie A. Fletcher (Bob) of Colorado Springs, ten grandchildren, Laura J. Lynch and Kevin J. Lynch, Stephen Ritchie and Christina Ritchie, Allison A. Lynch, Brian W. Burris and Sarah M. Burris, Kathryn M. Fletcher, Hayden R. Fletcher and Andrew C. Fletcher; and many beloved nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Marjorie Cowen Lynch, a brother Donald E. Lynch, a sister, Rosalie L. Grimes and his parents, Edward P. and Ann McDonald Lynch. He was born in Faribault, Minnesota on June 10, 1920 to Edward Peter Lynch and Ann (McDonald) Lynch.
He grew up in Faribault, Minnesota where he graduated from Faribault High School in 1938. Upon completing his sophomore year of college at St.Thomas University, he enlisted in the Army Air Corp. He proudly served his country from May of 1942 until December, 1945 in the South Pacific. After completing his military commitment he returned to St. Thomas University where he received his business degree in 1948. He was then employed by a Minneapolis hardware company and was transferred to Colorado Springs in December, 1952.
After relocating to Colorado Springs, he met Marjorie Alice Cowen(Marge) and was married on December 29, 1956 after a short courtship. They moved to Minnesota to begin their life together. In 1957, Bob was asked to return to Colorado Springs and join the family business, Cowen Transfer & Storage Co. They came back and spent the next 45 years together in Colorado Springs. Bob stayed with Cowen for twenty years, until he left in 1977 to own and operate his own company Security Moving & Storage.
He was a long time member of Kiwanis, St.Paul Catholic Church, Winter Nights Club and the Executive Club Association. He retired in 1988 from the moving and storage industry. With the opening of the Skyway Racquet Club Bob learned to play tennis. For many years Bob and Marge played together in Colorado Springs and during the winter months in Scottsdale, Az. Bob became a member of a regular tennis group who called themselves the "Playboys". Bob played into his eighties. Bob Lynch was a very loving, kind and generous man admired and respected by his employees, friends, family and peers. Above all, he cherished his family. He will be profoundly missed.
The Denver Post
October 17, 1995Mildred Cowen Engstrom of Denver, a homemaker, died Oct. 4. She was 94.
Interment was in Fairmount Cemetery.
She was born Jan. 12, 1901, in Colorado Springs. On May 4, 1927, she married Harty T. Engstrom in Greeley. Mrs. Engstrom attended the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs. She was a member of Chapter A of PEO Sisterhood, Peace Pipe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Colonial Dames XVII Century and Wing Family of America, Inc.
She is survived by three daughters, Barbara J. Byrne, Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico, Janice E. Smith, Bethesda, Md., and Joan E. Perkins, Denver; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
Marriage Notes for Mildred Chapman Cowen and Walter Guinn Peak
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Date/Pub/Sec: 12/3/1922, Gazette, Sec. 5, 1-5
Location: Colorado Springs
People: Mildred Chapman Cowen � Walter Guinn Peak
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
April 24, 2003Barbara Jean Byrne: AUTHOR AND ACTRESS BYRNE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE
By the time she was 10 years old, the little girl named Jean had been around the world several times. On each trip, she brought along a little girl named Barbara.
"Jean was a little girl who had no mother or father," began a series of books written in Barbara Jean Engstrom's bedroom - a series that took readers to dozens of countries the young author had only visited in her mind. "I know you wish you could visit these places. Maybe you have."
"It's all just from her imagination. She was always one to embellish stories whenever she told one," said B.J. Byrne's daughter, Kris Espinosa, as she flipped through one of her mother's old manuscripts, called Jean in Japan.
"This is definitely her," Espinosa said. "She always wanted to have adventures in places she'd never been, meet people she'd never met and do things she'd never done."
Barbara Jean Byrne died March 24 in Ajijic, Mexico, of complications related to emphysema. She was 79.
"B.J." as she was almost always known, was born in Colorado Springs. Her mother divorced and remarried when Mrs. Byrne was very young, and she spent much of her childhood trying to entertain (and upstage) her younger twin sisters, Janice and Joan.
Since she never knew her biological father, Mrs. Byrne invented one. She continued her escapes through the "Jean" books. She began acting, and never stopped.
After graduating from East High School, she attended acting school in New York City. Several radio programs followed, along with appearances on local commercials and bit parts in televisions shows that included The Donna Reed Show and Wagon Train, her family said.
In the 1950s, she married and moved to Pasadena, Calif., and helped found the Little Rep Theater. After divorcing twice, she moved back to Colorado in the 1970s and married District Judge Ed Byrne. In 1975, the couple retired to the tiny town of Ajijic. There she helped start another local theater, helping to bridge languages and cultures, and lived the book she never wrote: Jean in Mexico.
Wherever she went, the actress never lost the imagination that first surfaced in the childhood stories she wrote, family members said. Despite her rosy outlook, however, she fought real battles - including one with alcoholism, a battle she eventually won, her daughter said.
"She said, 'There's never a challenge that can't be overcome,' " Espinosa said. "She never saw a hardship - she only saw another adventure."
San Diego Union-Tribune
March 1, 2000MERRITT HOLDEN 'BUD' PERKINS JR.
Aug. 4, 1926 - Feb. 16, 2000Merritt Holden "Bud" Perkins Jr., 73, of Fallbrook died Feb. 16. He was born in Denver. Mr. Perkins was retired after working for 35 years in marketing management for Continental Airlines. He had served in the Army Air Forces.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia M. Perkins; sons, Merritt H. Perkins III of Kerrville, Texas, Russ Perkins of Dallas and Randy Perkins of Broken Arrow, Okla.; sister, Mildren Marker of Albuquerque, N.M.; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The Washington Post
November 9, 2007SMITH JANICE E. SMITH On Wednesday, November 7, 2007 of Bethesda, MD. Beloved wife of the late James Alexander Smith. Devoted mother of Richard Smith (wife Suzanne) of Eden Prairie, MN and the late Deborah Wing Monroe. Mother-in-law of Clarence Lee Monroe. Grandmother of David and Katelin Smith and Keith Monroe. Sister of JoAnn Perkins of Denver, CO.
Washington Post, The (DC)
November 27, 2005JAMES A. SMITH
On Wednesday, November 23, 2005, at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD, from complications of Parkinson's disease.
He was preceeded in death by his daughter, Debbie Monroe, in January of this year, and another daughter Cheryl Lynn Smith, who died in infancy in 1949.
He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Janice Smith of Bethesda; his son, Richard Smith of Minneapolis, MN and his two children, David and Katelin Smith. His daughter's son, Keith Monroe, lives in Reston,
55709. Thelma Lucille Gillespie
The Hartford Courant (CT)
February 21, 2007Thelma ''Teddy'' G. Blake, 87, of Farmington, widow of Albert L. Blake, passed away peacefully Tuesday, (February 20, 2007) at Avon Health Center.
Born in Augusta, ME, November 10th, 1919, daughter of the late Roland and Jesse (Simpson) Gillespie.
She was the Salutatorian of the Class of 1939 at Gardiner High School in Maine. Thelma worked for the states of Maine and Connecticut and was later associated with Miss Porter's School in Farmington for 25 years. She was a member of the First Church of Christ, Congregational in Farmington and volunteered at the Village Traders at the church. Thelma was an unselfish and caring woman who loved to travel and enjoyed gardening.
She is survived by her son, David A. Blake and his wife, Kim of Burlington, her daughter, Sandra B. Harty and her husband, Rick of Farmington; her grandchildren, Dave Harty of New York, Liz Harty of West Hartford, Mike Harty of Farmington, Dan Harty of Farmington, Garrett Blake of New Hampshire and Tyler Blake of Burlington; her great-grandchild, Clover Blake of New Hampshire; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her brother, George Gillespie.
Bangor Daily News
February 1, 2012OLD TOWN � Dorothy (Robinson) Gillespie Jones, 85, died Jan. 24, 2012, with family by her side at Brewer rehabilitation facility. She was born July 3, 1926, in Harmony, the daughter of Merton A. and Irma F. (Willis) Robinson.
Dot met and married her first husband, George L. Gillespie, in 1950, and they raised their two children in Augusta until his death in 1974. She went on to marry Harry A. Jones of Dover, N.H., in 1975, and they resided in Rochester, N.H., until retiring to North Port, Fla.
Dot maintained residence in Florida after his death in 2003 and then relocated back to Maine in 2010 to be cared for by her daughter. Dot was employed for many years by the Augusta school system, where she worked as a cook and dietician, and retired as a teacher of culinary arts. She loved to entertain and cook for her friends and family. She also had a passion for bingo, where she met many friends. Dot had many hobbies, which included reading, sewing, knitting and creating dollhouses. She was a lifetime member of the Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans Foreign Wars, Post No. 8203, North Port, Fla.
Dot is survived by her mother, Irma F. (Willis) Robinson; sister, Patricia Gendreau and husband, Roger; son, Kenneth Gillespie and wife, Deborah; daughter, Debra Rapacki; stepdaughter, Barbara Cummings; stepson, Robert Jones and wife, Gloria; nephew, Michael Gendreau and wife, Judy; five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and three great-nieces.
Eugene Register-Gaurd
April 1, 1944Reedsport - Funeral services for George David Roberts, 41, who died at his home in Reedsport on Monday evening, were held Thursday at the Unger mortuary, with internment in Reedsport Masonic cemetery.
Mr. Roberts was born at Templeton, Coos county, Oregon, on May 20, 1902, and was with his parents, David and Mary Haskell Roberts, moved to a farm on Smith River, Reedsport, in 1917, where he has since made his home.
He is survived by his widowl Kitty Lund Roberts; a daughter by a former marriage, Rosemary Roberts; and mother, Mrs. DDavid Roberts, all of Reedsport; four brothers, Bert Roberts of Reedsport; clude and Ben Roberts, of Smith River, California; and James Roberts, with nthe army in New Guinea, and a sister, Mrs. Verna MacF=Gregor, head nurse at the Deavoneas hospital, Salem
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Verna Roberts McGregor
July 10, 1907 - Oct. 23, 2001salem & Eugene - Verna McGregor, 94, died October 23.
Dhe was born in Marshfield, Ore., to Nettie Mae Haskell and David Roberts. She worked as a Registered Nurse for many years in Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene.
Verna married Harold A. McGregor December 5, 1935 in Portland, Ore. He preceded her in death on May 18, 1941. She was also preceded in death by her five brothers and her parents.
Verna is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, David and Beverly McGregor of Silverton, Ore.; a son and daighter--in-law, Sandy and Martha McGregor of Oregon, Wis.; and daughter, Mollie McGregor of Kennewick, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her husband, five brothers and parents.
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Jamed Wendell Roberts
1917-1957James W. "Bill" Roberts, 1241 Ivy Sreeet, Reedsport, Oregon, scaler's helper, died, following a geart attack on January 10.
Born on the Smith River, on February 8, 1917, Roberts had spent his entire life in the lower Umpqua area. During World Wa II he was with the 41st Infantry Ddivision in New Guinea and the South Pacific. He became a Long Bell boomman on June 26, 1952, and advanced to the position of scaler's helper.
"Bill" Roberts was an active member of the Reedsport Community Presbyterian Churc. He belonged to the church choir, was a Sunday School teacher for the fourth grade, and had begun his second year as a member of the board of trustees.
His survivors include his wife; three children, James, Karen, and Jan; his mother, Mrs. Mae Roberts; two brothers, Bert and Clyde; and a sister, Mrs. Verna McGregor.