Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
March 14, 2004BLANCHARD Edna M. (Perkins). of North Falmouth, formerly of Pittsfield, March 11. Beloved wife of the late Norman H. Blanchard; loving mother of Barbara L. Bosselman of North Falmouth, Norman H. Blanchard Jr. of Birchrunville, PA, Dr. Duncan C. Blanchard of Gilderland, NY and the late Dorcas S. Blanchard, sister of Lillian Anderson of Pittsfield and the late Charles M. Perkins. Also survived by ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
56182. Mary Elizabeth Sweetser
pressherald.comBAR HARBOR -- Elizabeth (Betty) Sweetser Baxter, wife of Elmer L. Baxter, died on April 27, 2010, in her apartment above Frenchman Bay, where she could see the ocean from her living room and bedroom windows.
Betty was born in Orono, on June 2, 1920, the daughter of Herman P. Sweetser and Phyllis S. Sweetser. She grew up in Cumberland Center, where she worked in the family apple orchard and was valedictorian of her class at Greely Institute. She went on to attend Colby College, where she met her husband, Elmer Baxter, and graduated in 1941.
Betty and Elmer were married in 1944 while he was stationed in Gainesville, Fla. After the war, they moved to Newington, Conn., where they raised three sons, and lived for 60 years.
In addition to raising her boys, Betty enjoyed family gatherings where she loved to prepare fresh produce from Elmer's garden. She devoted much time volunteering for the First Church of Christ, Congregational in Newington, where she served as lay moderator and taught Sunday school. She was also active in PTA, cub scouts, and town activities, including many years of service on the Parks and Recreation Committee. She served as the Newington town Historian, writing The Centennial History of Newington in 1971. She was proudest of her success at persuading 'the powers that be' to move, save and restore the historic 'Kelsey House,' which is now an important museum and resource for the community. For many years, she wrote a weekly column for the 'Newington Town Crier.'
Betty and Elmer left Newington and moved to Dirigo Pines in Orono in 2005, and re-located to the Birch Bay Inn in Bar Harbor in 2008.
Betty was predeceased by her parents; and a brother, Phillip Sweetser. In addition to her husband,
Betty is survived by a brother, Richard W. Sweetser and his wife Constance Sweetser of Cumberland Center; three sons, Ledyard S. Baxter and his wife Nancy S. Baxter of Aquebogue, N.Y., David S. Baxter and his wife Katherine K. Carter of Orono, Benjamin A. Baxter and his wife Joan Loy-Baxter of Bar Harbor; four grandchildren, Joshua Baxter, Jonathan Baxter, Kyla Baxter, and Alexis Baxter; one great- grandchild, Laurel Baxter; and several nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
The Hartford Courant (CT)
December 4, 2010Elmer L. Baxter died quietly on November 21, 2010 at a Bar Harbor health care facility after a long and full life. He was born on December 30, 1918 in Waterbury, CT, the son of Chester Arthur and Louisa Ayres Baxter.
He graduated from Colby College, Waterville, ME in 1941. Elmer served as a meteorologist in the U S Air Force in both World War II and the Korean War, forecasting for trans-Atlantic military flights and shipping. He was stationed in Newfoundland and Greenland -- where he spent a year on the Arctic Circle and flew over the North Pole in 1952 when that was still unusual. He also served in Florida and Massachusetts.
He married Elizabeth (Betty) Sweetser in 1944 [January 9, 1944, Cumberland, Maine]. They had been married for more than 66 years at her death in April, 2010.
After his military service, he and Betty moved to Newington, CT where they raised three sons, grew a large garden, and resided for 60 years. Elmer was employed by the Travelers Insurance Co. in Hartford, CT for nearly 40 years. Elmer and Betty were active members of the Church of Christ, Congregational, in Newington, CT, where he served as head usher and treasurer for many years. He wrote and acted in several Christmas plays for the church. Additionally, he served as a scoutmaster (earning and being a trainer for Wood Badge skills), PTA president, and member of the Newington Conservation Commission. He volunteered to maintain a 50 mile stretch of the Metacomet Trail in central Connecticut for many years. He had a long-time passion for genealogical research, traveling to England to find the church where his great grandparents had been married before emigrating to the US. Always looking for a challenge, Elmer learned Esperanto (later offering a class in it at senior college in Orono, ME). He and Betty enjoyed many Elderhostel courses, and took senior college courses to learn to speak Russian, and to write poetry. He always appreciated (and often initiated) a bad pun. Since his father was a locomotive engineer, Elmer had a lifelong interest in all things related to railroads. He had an HO layout in the attic, and spent several happy summers volunteering as a conductor for the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad in Portland, ME.
He is survived by three sons: Ledyard S. Baxter and his wife Nancy S. Baxter of Aquebogue, NY; David S. Baxter and his wife Katherine K. Carter of Orono, ME; Benjamin A. Baxter and his wife Joan Loy-Baxter of Bar Harbor, ME; four grandchildren: Joshua Baxter, Jonathan Baxter, Kyla Baxter, and Alexis Baxter; one great grand child: Laurel Baxter; and several nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews.
56187. Prentiss Brownell Gallup
The Bridgeport Post
May 15, 1973Holyoke, Mass. � Memorial services will take place Saturday for Prentiss B. Gallup, 70, of Shelley Knolls, clothing store operator who family formerly operated Meigs and company in Bridgeport, Conn., who died Friday in his home.
Mr. Gallup was born in Holyoke, attended Kent school and was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1925. On graduation he joined the Bridgeport store and returned to Holyoke in 1945 to direct operations after his father died. He had resided in Bridgeport from 1924 until 1945.
He was a member of the Dartmouth club, Holyoke Rotary club, Holyoke Elks lodge and a former active member of the Mount Tom Boy Scout council. He served as chairman of the merchant members of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce and was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church.
Survivors are his wife: Mrs. Evelyn Crocker Gallup; four sons: John G. Gallup of Longmeadow, William C. Gallup of Portland, Ore., David B. and August T. Gallup II, both of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Union-News (Springfield, MA)
July 28, 1992Ruth (Hibbard) Romer, 90, formerly of Pelham and Cambridge, died Saturday in a local nursing home.
She was a statistician for the Illinois Department of Labor in Chicago, Ill.
For 49 years, she helped her husband, Alfred Sherwood Romer, a paleontologist, organize fossil-hunting expeditions in Texas, Quebec, Canada, and Argentina, in which she took part in.
Born in Ithaca, N.Y., she later moved with her family to Columbia, Mo., where she attended school. She was graduated in 1922 from the University of Missouri.
She did graduate work in the Department of Social Economy and Social Research at Bryn Mawr, Pa., College, and received her certificate in 1923. As part of the program, she worked at the Dennison plant in Framingham and at a factory in Philadelphia.
She a member of the League of Women Voters, and was instrumental in the reformation of city government in Cambridge. She worked with the Cambridge Committee for Plan E, and in 1945 was a founding member of the Cambridge Civic Association.
In recent years, she was active at First Parish (Unitarian) Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Romer and her family spent summers at their 250-year-old farmhouse in Pelham, which they renovated incorporating material from several houses demolished in connection with the creation of Quabbin Reservoir.
Her husband died in 1973.
She leaves two sons, Robert Horton of Amherst and James Henry of Unity, N.H.; a daughter, Sally Hibbard Evans of Northampton; a sister, Jeanne Hibbard Stephens of Oberlin, Ohio; seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The Kansas City Star (MO)
February 14, 2001Mary Lois Ruppenthal Hibbard James died in her sleep at age 97 in her home at Lakeview Village, Lenexa, KS.
Working to help women around the world to become economically self-sufficient.
Mrs. James was born in Russell, KS, November 9, 1903, the daughter of Sarah Spalding and Jacob Christian Ruppenthal. She grew up in Russell, where she attended the Russell School System before going on to the University of Kansas where she graduated with a B.A. degree in 1925. While at KU she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, joined the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority, and was elected to MortarBoard. She then graduated from Simmons College, Boston, with an M.S. degree in 1927, and eventually gained her Ed.D. (Doctorate in Education) from Columbia University Teachers College in 1947.
She married Harlan Davis Hibbard on December 20, 1930, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was working for Goodyear Tire Co. She had two children, Hope Louise Hibbard, who died in 1974, and Harlan Davis Hibbard Jr., both of whom were born in Akron, OH. Her husband died on November 23, 1941, and she moved to New York City to attend Columbia University in 1944.
She married a fellow KU graduate and widower, Wallace McNeil James on August 26, 1947, and moved to West Caldwell, NJ, with his three children by his first wife.
She taught in the Russell, KS, and Akron, OH public schools, and was the School Psychologist in Caldwell. She practiced as a marriage and family counselor for 25 years and was a founding member of the New Jersey chapter of the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, serving as its secretary and later, president. She was also a member of the TriState Council of Family Relations. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, was an honorary member of the New Jersey Parent Teacher Association, and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, NJ, where she was a member of the Session. She is survived by her four children, Dorothy Jean Crawford, Topeka, KS, Alberta June Daw, Kansas City, MO, Donald MacIvor James, Incline Village, NV, and Harlan Davis Hibbard, Boulder, CO; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren also survive her. She was a resident of Lakeview Village retirement community from 1976 onwards, where she was selected as the honorary chairperson of the Lakeview Village Volunteers and was the first person to be elected to the Lakeview Village Volunteer Hall of Fame. For her, there were never enough hours in the day to accomplish the service to others, which was her lifelong goal. One of the crowning achievements of her life was writing the biography of her father's life, titled "A Man Before His Time," with a forward by Sen. Bob Dole. She died peacefully and gracefully, surrounded by her immediately family holding her hands.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
October 6, 2000Dr. Jeanne Hibbard Stephens, a medical and civic leader in Oberlin, died Sept. 25 at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital. She was 89.
Dr. Stephens practiced with her husband, Dr. James T. They spent the first three years of their careers working in the Scotch Run coal mining area outside Morgantown, W.Va., where she started a well-baby clinic. In 1942, they moved to Oberlin, where they were known as Dr. Jeanne and Dr. Jim. They helped establish Oberlin Clinic in 1962.
In the 1970s, they served as volunteers at Chogoria Hospital in Kenya. Their experiences were recorded in the 1993 book, "In the Shadows of Mount Kenya."
Dr. Stephens was born in Columbia, Mo. She graduated from Oberlin College with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1933, then earned a bachelor's degree in medicine at the University of Missouri. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1937 and married two days after her graduation. She and her husband interned at Cleveland City Hospital, now MetroHealth Medical Center.
She was a trustee of Oberlin College from 1968 to 1980, when she became an honorary trustee. She also served on the college's 1975 presidential search committee, the alumni board and alumni awards committee.
She chaired the medical staff of Allen Memorial Hospital and participated in the Oberlin City Health Commission, Medical Aid Committee, Lorain County Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Association and American Cancer Society. She was a trustee of the Center for the Sightless. Dr. Stephens also served on the Oberlin Board of Education. She was active in PTA and the League of Women Voters.
She and her husband were honored often. Oberlin College gave them the Distinguished Service Award in 1980. In 1989, they received a service award from the Medical Alumni Association of the University of Missouri and the Oberlin College Alumni Association medal in 1994. They were members of the First Church in Oberlin.
They helped bring the Kendal retirement community to Oberlin and, in 1993, were among its first residents. Its health facility was named the Stephens Care Center.
Dr. James Stephens died in 1998. A daughter, Sally Bracht Eglin, died last year.
Dr. Stephens is survived by a daughter, Ann S. Molyneaux of Wilmette, Ill.; a son, John B. of Columbus; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
January 14, 1998Dr. James T. Stephens, a general surgeon, and his wife, Dr. Jeanne H., a pediatrician, helped found the Oberlin Clinic and the Kendal at Oberlin retirement community.
Dr. Stephens was the first president of the Oberlin Clinic. He led the community-based physicians group practice from its establishment in 1962 until 1974.
During his 30-year medical career in Oberlin before retiring in 1976, he served on the medical staff and the board of trustees of Allen Memorial Hospital.
In his retirement, Dr. Stephens was president of the Oberlin Retirement Community, a group that persuaded the Quaker-affiliated Kendal Corp. to establish a retirement complex in Oberlin.
He was a member of the Kendal at Oberlin Community Board of Trustees from 1991 to 1993. The Stephenses were among the first residents of the Kendal at Oberlin when it opened in October 1993.
Dr. Stephens died there Friday at the age of 88.
He was born in North Topeka, Kan., and grew up in California.
Dr. Stephens earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 1932, a bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Missouri in 1935 and a doctorate in medicine from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1937.
He and his wife, whom he met at the University of Missouri, served their internships at City Hospital in Cleveland. Dr. Stephens served his residency at Glenville Hospital, while his wife stayed at City Hospital to complete hers.
In 1939, Dr. Stephens took a job as a physician for a coal company in West Virginia, tending to the medical needs of workers in a mining community near Morgantown. During their three years there, he and his wife established a prenatal clinic and a well-baby clinic for the miners' families.
The Stephenses moved to Oberlin in 1942. During World War II, Dr. Stephens served as a major with the Army Medical Corps.
After the war, he returned to Oberlin, where he and his wife set up a joint practice.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Stephens was the team doctor for the Oberlin High School football team. He was a Lorain County Medical Society delegate to the Ohio State Medical Association for 11 years.
Dr. Stephens, a member of First Church in Oberlin, served on the American Medical Association's Committee on Religion. He co-wrote "The Christian as a Doctor," a book published in 1960.
In 1974, he and his wife spent six months as volunteers at the Chogoria Hospital in Kenya. They returned to the African hospital after retiring in 1976 and stayed there for a year.
They wrote about their experiences in the 1993 book "In the Shadow of Mt. Kenya".
Dr. Stephens and his wife received the Oberlin College Distinguished Community Service Award in 1980 and the University of Missouri's Medical Alumni Organization's Service Award in 1989.
In 1994, the Oberlin College Alumni Association presented the couple with its Alumni Medal for their service to the college.
Besides his wife of 60 years, survivors include daughters, Ann S. Molyneaux of Wilmette, Ill., and Sally S. Eglin of Ashtabula; son, John B. of Columbus; nine grandchildren; and a sister.