The Minneapolis Star
February 4, 1936Last rites for Mrs. Ella Donnelly, 84 who died Saturday at Tarkio, Mo., were held today at the Villman mortuary, 1400 Park avenue.
Ahe was a former resident of the city, settling here when the village of St. Anthony existed. She lived on Hennepin avenue near second street. She was a charter member of Bethlehem Presbyterian church.
Survivors are a sister, Emma Haskell, Brookfield, Mass.; three daughters, Mrs. Alice Hampton, Oakland, Calif.; Mrs. Anne Speedy and Nellie Donnelly, Minneapolis; a son William James, Los Angeles, and three grandchildren.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
May 9, 1992HOLDEN - Ruth H. (Gardiner) Fiske, 91, of 29 Oakcrest Road died yesterday in University of Massachusetts Hospital, Worcester, after an illness.
Her husband, Roland O. Fiske, died in 1962. She leaves three daughters, Dorothea E. LaPrade, with whom she lived, Shirley V. Fidrych and Janice M. McCabe, both of West Boylston; nine grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren. She was born in Brooklyn, Conn., daughter of Stephen J. and Flora (Nye) Gardiner, and lived in Worcester, Holden and Princeton before returning to Holden. She lived in Holden 25 years.
Mrs. Fiske was an inspector in the Telechron Division of General Electric Co., where she worked 28 years, retiring in 1963.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church, and Wachusett Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, both in Holden.
Ralph Emerson Haskell was a grocer.
Springfield Union
November 24, 1972Mrs. Florence M. (Green) Haskell, 89, of 436 Carew St., Springfield died in a nursing home in Emfield, Conn., Wednesday. She was born in Wilnraham Jan 24, 1883, and made her home in Springfield for the last 25 years. For many years she worked as a practical nurse. She was a member and past master of the Wilbraham Grange.
The widow of Ralph Haskell, she leaves a son, Fred Crossett of Rockport; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Doe, Lynn, adminstrator of the Lynn, Mass. nursing home, and Mrs. Lucille Keeton with whom she had made her home; a brother, Harland Green of California.
Burial in Woodland Dell Cemetery, Wilbraham.
Springfield Union
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The Free Lance-Star(Fredericksburg, VA)
October 10, 2012Charlotte E. Courchene, 93, of Spotsylvania County passed away Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, at Mary Washington Hospital.
Mrs. Courchene was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Survivors include her son, William W. Courchene; and sister Betty Bradley and her husband, Whit.
The Standard (Syracuse, NY)
February 22, 1991Lucy W. Warner, 87, of 153 Fillmore Ave. died Thursday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Warner was a life resident of Syracuse. She was employed more than 22 years with the Valley Plaza Gift Shop. She was the widow of Russell Warner.
Mrs. Warner was a member of South Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are a son, Charles F. Dodge of Syracuse; three sisters, Katherine P. Fowler of Mesa, Ariz., and Marion Schafer and Martha Lohrman, both of Syracuse; and a grandson.
The Orlando Sentinel (FL)
November 12, 2004Jane E. Thomson wasn't your average senior citizen.
After spending most of her life as a wife and mother, she earned a two-year nursing degree at age 50 and went to work with a New Jersey ambulance unit. She also received her private-pilot's license when she was 54 and jogged four to five miles daily until she was 78.
When she wasn't delivering Meals on Wheels, typing books in Braille, driving patients to the doctor and volunteering at the humane society, she played golf, tennis and Scrabble, worked crossword puzzles and read.
For her 75th, 80th and 85th birthdays, the longtime Port Orange resident took to the skies in a different manner when she skydived, courtesy of her son and daughter-in-law. Her first tandem jump -- which was just for fun -- was just before her 75th birthday.
"My husband always said he couldn't understand why she would want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane," her daughter-in-law, Judy Thomson, said Thursday. "But she loved it."
Jane Thomson died Sunday at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. She was 87.
Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Thomson moved to Port Orange in 1986 from Willingboro, N.J. She lived in the Spruce Creek Fly-In Community for several years before moving because of a broken promise.
"They told her when she moved in that they would put a jogging trail around the perimeter, but that never happened," Judy Thomson said. "When she found out they weren't going to build it, she moved out."
A member of St. Luke's Anglican Church in Port Orange, Thomson -- who lost her husband, John, to throat cancer in 1978 -- found many ways to volunteer, including driving cancer patients to appointments, said her daughter, Barbara Vanderhart of Newton, N.J.
"I have a suspicion that had something to do with her nursing my father for several years," she said.
Vanderhart, the only non-pilot in the family, thinks Thomson got her enthusiasm for the air from her husband, a pilot and instructor during World War II.
"She always loved being in the air," Vanderhart said. "The energy level she had when she talked about flying and sky diving was just incredible. It really just made her come to life."
After watching a wing walker at an air show, Thomson talked about giving it a try for her 80th birthday, but her son put his foot down, her daughter said. "She had to settle for sky diving again."
Vanderhart said her mother was delivering meals just last week, and the exact cause of her death wasn't known. "I think of her as kind of dying in the saddle," she said.
She was found unconscious early one morning in her bedroom with her beloved Shetland sheepdog, Cody, by her side. She never regained consciousness, her daughter said.
"She'll be cremated," Vanderhart said. "We found my father's ashes in a cupboard in my mother's house, and they'll be buried together at the Spruce Creek Cemetery. I think my father would like that."
Thomson also is survived by a son, John III of Daytona Beach; one sister, Lois Eddy of Port Orange; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.