The Herald News (Fall River, MA)
July 15, 2001Howard E. Needham, 97, formerly of Miller Street, Braintree, died Sunday at the Clifton Rehabilitative Nursing Center, Somerset. He was the husband of the late Dorothy (Spence) Needham.
Born in Worcester, he was the son of the late Albert and Eva (Doyle) Needham. He had lived in Braintree for 57 years before moving to Somerset in 1995.
Mr. Needham was the assistant treasurer of New England Power Service Company of Boston until his retirement in 1969 after 49 years with the company.
He was the former treasurer and director of the Norfolk Fellowship Foundation in Norfolk and a former deacon and treasurer of the First Congregational Church of Braintree.
Survivors include a daughter, Marilyn Darling of Barrington, R.I.; a brother, William Needham of Worcester; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was the brother of the late Clifford, Roy, Albert, Robert, Richard and Margaret Needham, Louise Adams and Ruth Marone.
Providence Journal (RI)
May 19, 1997DOROTHY W. NEEDHAM, 92, of 500 Wilber Ave., died Saturday at Clifton Rehabilitative Nursing Center. She was the wife of Howard E. Needham.
Born in Somerville, a daughter of the late John M. and Ada (Whittaker) Spence, she had lived in Braintree for 57 years before moving to Somerset two years ago.
Mrs. Needham attended the former Burdett College in Boston. She was a volunteer for several area nursing homes for 40 years. She was a former deaconess of the First Congregational Church of Braintree.
Besides her husband, she leaves a daughter, Marilyn N. Darling of Barrington; three granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren. She was the sister of the late Vera Coburn.
The Boston Globe
February 13, 1997Needham - Rauha Elizabeth (Suorsa) of Sandwich died in Falmouth on Wednesday. Widow of the late Clifford A. Needham. Mother Elizabeth R. Shaw of Westford, MA and Robert H. Needham of Newton, MA. Also surrvived by 4 grandchildren.
Mr Roy A Needham, 92
ObituariesCape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
March 16, 2001Roy A. Needham, 92, a Cape resident since 1975, died Monday at Falmouth Hospital after being stricken ill at his home in Mashpee.
He was the husband of Genevieve C. (Chapdelaine) Needham, who died in 1984. They were married for 49 years.
Born in Worcester, Mr. Needham was a graduate of Worcester Boys Trade High School. He lived for 40 years in Millbury before moving to Mashpee in 1975.
He worked for the New England Power Co. for 45 years until retiring in 1973 as a substation operator at the Millbury substation.
Mr. Needham was a member of the Waquoit Congregational Church in East Falmouth and a former member of the Millbury Federated Church and the Millbury Baptist Church. He was also a member and former treasurer of the Mashpee branch of the American Association of Retired Persons.
He is survived by a daughter, Cecily G. Martiros of Mashpee; a son, David C. Needham of Millbury; two brothers, Howard E. Needham of Somerset and William H. Needham of Worcester; six grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; nephews and nieces.
69882. Margaret Estelle Needham
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
September 15, 1999WORCESTER - Margaret E. Needham, 88, formerly of 4 Agate Ave., died Monday in Christopher House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center after an illness.
She leaves four brothers, Howard Needham of Somerset, Roy Needham of Otis Village, Robert Needham of Lewis, Del., and William Needham of Worcester; two sisters, Louise Adams and Ruth E. Marrone, both of Shrewsbury; nieces and nephews.
She was born in Worcester, daughter of Albert and Eva M. (Doyle) Needham.
She was a member of Lakeview Congregational Church and several church associations, including its Women's Club.
The Hartford Courant (CT)
November 2, 1998Albert E. Needham, 86, of Wethersfield, formerly of Hartford and East Sandwich, MA, died (Oct. 31, 1998) at a local convalescent home.
He was predeceased in 1996 by his wife, Rowena Needham.
Born in Worcester, MA, son of Albert E. and Eva D. Needham, he was in banking all his life, retiring as an officer of Shawmut Bank in Worcester in 1977. He moved to East Sandwich, where he lived for many years, and then to the Hartford area in 1994. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific in World Wa r II.
He is survived by his daughter and son- in-law, Elaine and Daniel St. Onge of Wethersfield; a son and daughter-in- law, Kenneth and Judith Needham of Santa Monica, CA; four grandchildren, Daniel St. Onge and his wife, Shannon of Middletown, Timothy St. Onge of Arlington, VA, Jessica Duma and her husband, Christopher of Newport Beach, CA, and Matthew Needham and his wife, Alison of Encino, CA; a great-grandson, Benjamin Needham of Encino, CA; four brothers and a sister.
The Hartford Courant (CT)
June 16, 1996NEEDHAM. Rowena (Walker) Needham, 84, of Avery Heights, Hartford, wife of Albert E. Needham, died Friday (June 14) at Avery Nursing Home. She was born in Clinton, MA, daughter of the late James and Grace Walker.
She and her husband lived in Worcester, MA for many years, retiring to East Sandwich, MA in 1977, and moving to Hartford in 1994.
She is survived by her husband, Albert of Avery Heights; a daughter and son-in-law, Elaine and Daniel St. Onge of Wethersfield; a son and daughter-in- law, Kenneth and Judith Needham of Santa Monica, CA; and four grandchildren, Daniel and Timothy St. Onge, Jessica and Matthew Needham; and three brothers.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
December 20, 1996HOLDEN - Robert L. Needham, 82, of 274 Bailey Road, longtime art director at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, died Wednesday in Wayside Nursing Center, Worcester, after an illness.
He leaves his wife of 36 years, Phyllis L. (Oberg) Westling Needham; two daughters, Jane E. Morrell of Rutland and Maryann Needham of Holden; five brothers, Howard Needham in Rhode Island, Roy Needham of Mashpee, Albert Needham of Hartford, Conn., Richard Needham of Rehoboth, Del., and William Needham of Shrewsbury; a sister, Margaret Needham of Worcester; a granddaughter, nephews and nieces.
He was born in Worcester, son of Albert and Eva (Doyle) Needham, and lived here 51 years. He graduated from Commerce High School in Worcester and the Worcester Art Museum School. He was an Army veteran of World War II, serving in the Asian-Pacific theater.
Mr. Needham was art director at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, where he worked for 40 years. He retired in 1978. He also taught furniture refinishing and was an appraiser of antiques.
Mr. Needham was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church in Worcester and the Morgan Horse Association. He was once a leader of the Holden Trail Trotters, a horse-riding division of the 4-H Club.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)
January 26, 2011Leland J. Adams - Loving husband, father & grandfather; retired T&G Vice President - Administration
WESTBOROUGH Lee Adams, 93, died peacefully on Jan. 19, 2011 at the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Born in Worcester on Mar. 4, 1917, he was the son of the late Pearl (Ansell) and Clinton Adams. He graduated from high school in Worcester and served in the Army from 1943 to 1946 and was honorably discharged at the rank of 2nd lieutenant. He was a Worcester resident for many years and lived in Shrewsbury for 48 years.
He was the loving husband for 43 years to the late I. Louise (Needham) Adams; father of Leland J. Adams, Jr. and his wife Martha of Dennis and Candace L. Adams of Millbury; grandfather to Leland J. Adams, III of Northborough and Jeffrey N. and his wife Kirsten Adams of Owings Mills, MD; great grandfather to Lillian, Margaret and Colin; and uncle to many nieces and nephews.
Lee devoted all but 6 years of his 46 year career to the Telegram & Gazette newspapers retiring as Vice President of Business Administration in 1982. From 1956 to 1962, he was retail advertising manager for the Philadelphia Bulletin newspaper. At the T&G Lee started in 1935 as a proof boy in the advertising department and steadily advanced to become one of the senior executives of the company. His love for and devotion to the newspaper industry, in general, and the T&G in particular knew no bounds. He once was inspired to write a poem entitled "What Is A Newspaper?" which previously was published in this newspaper.
Lee enjoyed a full life. He was an avid tennis player and voracious reader. He loved his family dearly and enjoyed spending time with them vacationing and in other activities. His favorite vacation spot was Bermuda, which he and his wife were blessed to have visited more than 25 times. He loved music and singing beginning with his high school years when he played saxophone and clarinet in his own dance band. In later years he often frequented Worcester area restaurants and night spots with musical groups where he would perform as a guest, singing popular songs from the big band era.
He was a member of the Shrewsbury First Congregational Church, the Worcester Club, Worcester Country Club and many civic groups. He was on the board of directors for Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. and served as audit committee chairman. On behalf of the T&G, he served during his career as an officer and on boards of directors for various regional and national newspaper trade associations. He received many awards, including the Silver Medal award from the Worcester Area Advertising Club, the Meritorious Service Award from the International Newspaper Advertising Executives and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
January 20, 2001LEWES, Del. -- Richard M. Needham, 78, of Lewes, formerly of Devon, Pa., and Worcester, Mass., a retired machine company worker, died Thursday, Jan. 18, in Beebe Medical Center.
He leaves his wife of 57 years, Doris (Aubrey) Needham; two sons, Gary R. Needham of Malvern, Pa., and Richard E. Needham of Linfield, Pa.; two brothers, William Needham of Worcester and Roy Needham of Mashpee, Mass.; and two grandsons. He was born in Worcester, son of Albert and Eva (Doyle) Needham, and moved to Devon, Pa., in 1965 and to Lewes 16 years ago.
Mr. Needham was a machinist and trouble-shooter 35 years for Heald Machine Co., Worcester. He was also a fisherman.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
April 8, 1993ELIZABETH TAYLOR RIGHTOR of the Episcopal Home in Alhambra, Calif., formerly of Memphis, retired employee of First Tennessee Bank and Justine's Restaurant, died March 27 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Santa Barbara, Calif., after a short illness.
She was a member of Junior League of Memphis. Mrs. Rightor, the widow of Haskell Rightor, leaves a daughter, Sara Louise Parks of Los Angeles; a son, King Rightor of Tacoma, Wash.; a brother, Dan Scott Taylor of Waterford, Miss., and six grandchildren.
The Baltimore Sun
March 6, 1985On March 3, 1985 MARY RIGHTOR, in Philadelphia, PA, wife of Doctor Palmer H. Futcher. Mother of Jane R. Futcher and Marjorie Futcher.
The Sun (Baltimore, MD)
February 2, 2004Dr. Palmer H. Futcher, a former faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a medical society administrator and an amateur medical historian, died Friday at Broadmead in Cockeysville of complications from pneumonia. He was 93.
Dr. Futcher was a man of wide-ranging interests, including world affairs, the Baltimore Social Register, trout fishing and celestial navigation, said his daughter, Jane Pillow Futcher of Novato, Calif. He was a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear activist group.
"He was an odd combination of this world peace guy and an old Baltimore society man," his daughter said.
Dr. Futcher was born in Baltimore, the son of a Johns Hopkins medical school professor, and decided on a career in medicine at an early age. His parents were close friends of revered Hopkins professor Dr. William Osler, and the family's home near Mount Vernon Place was crammed with memorabilia of Dr. Osler and other medical school founders.
Dr. Futcher attended Gilman School and Kent School, a Connecticut boarding school. He graduated from Harvard University and earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins in 1936. After his residency, he joined a medical research team at the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
He resigned from his research job after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and joined the Navy in 1942.
He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy's medical corps and assigned to the naval air station in Pensacola, Fla. There he conducted practical experiments, including one on survival at sea. To test his conclusions, he spent time adrift in a life raft with a supply of Charms candy.
"We always had this romantic image of him, out in a life raft eating Charms," his daughter said.
Soon after arriving in Pensacola, he met Mary Viola Rightor, a social worker and Arkansas native. The two were engaged within two weeks and were married 43 years. She died in 1985.
Dr. Futcher was discharged from the Navy in 1946 and taught medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., before joining Hopkins' department of medicine in 1948. During his 19 years there he taught internal medicine, directed the hospital outpatient service and the university's student health service, and served as assistant dean of the school.
"He handled patients with a great deal of skill and compassion," said Edward Lewison, a medical school classmate who worked with Dr. Futcher to organize their class reunions.
Dr. Futcher moved to Philadelphia in 1967, where he served as executive director of the American Board of Internal Medicine until 1975. He became a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania medical school. In retirement, he treated patients at Philadelphia's Veterans Administration hospital, specializing in the care of diabetics.
He moved to Broadmead in 1994.
Dr. Futcher's two greatest passions were medical history and the outdoors, his daughter said. He collected medical history books and Hopkins memorabilia. He was a trout fisherman, bird watcher, sailor and amateur astronomer.
"When he was interested in something he took a very studious approach," she said. "When my mother died, he invested in a racehorse called She's So Hot. He never went to the racecourse. He read the racing news and wrote down how each horse he was interested in did ... but he never placed a bet."
In addition to his daughter, he is survived by another daughter, Marjorie Rightor Futcher of Alum Bridge, W.Va.; seven nieces; one nephew; and a friend, Louise Brown of Broadmead.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
April 18, 1994WILLETTE DUVAL WHITE, 85, resident of Johnson-Hobson Nursing Home in Marion, Ark., died of heart disease Saturday at Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis. Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel has charge. She was a member of Calvary Episcopal Church.
Mrs. White, the widow of Thomas Coleman White, leaves a son, Thomas Coleman White Jr.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
January 14, 1999CAROLINE DUVAL WILLS, 90, of Memphis, retired librarian for University of Tennessee Medical School and retired office manager for Internal Medicine Group, died of heart failure Tuesday at her home.
She leaves a sister, Louise Wills Church, and two brothers, Walter D. Wills Jr. and Edwin F. Wills, all of Memphis.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
July 2, 2001LOUISE WILLS CHURCH, 88, of Memphis, homemaker, died of respiratory failure Saturday at her home.
Mrs. Church, the widow of Edgar M. Church, leaves a daughter, Caroline Church Clay of Cordova; a brother, Edwin Francis Wills of Memphis, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
69906. Walter Douglass Wills Jr.
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
August 13, 2000WALTER DOUGLASS WILLS JR., 84, of Memphis, real estate developer and farmer, died of heart failure Friday at his home.
He was a member of Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Memphis Board of Realtors, Cotton Carnival, Germantown Civic Club, Old Goats Club, Descendants of the Early Settlers of Shelby County, West Tennessee Historical Society,Memphis Country Club, past president of Germantown Charity Horse Show, senior warden at St. George's Episcopal Church and a volunteer for MIFA.
Mr. Wills, the husband of Dorothy Kirby Wills, also leaves a son, Walter D. Wills III; a sister, Louise Wills Church, and a brother, Edwin F. Wills, all of Memphis, and two grandchildren. T
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
October 8, 2006DOROTHY KIRBY WILLS, 83, of Memphis, died Friday, October 6, 2006 at her home.
She was the daughter of the late Joseph Brooks Kirby, whose family were early settlers of Germantown, and Dorothy Walker. Mrs. Wills, the widow of Walter Douglass Wills, Jr., is survived by her son, Walter D. Wills III of Memphis, one sister, Louise K. Ellis of Knoxville, TN and two grandchildren, Walter D. Wills IV and Mary E. Wills of Memphis.
She graduated from Miss Hutchison School for Girls and National Park College in Silver Springs Maryland and attended the University of Tennessee. During World War II, she served in the Red Cross Motor Corps. Mrs. Wills was a member of the Chi Omega Sorority, Les Passees, Germantown Charity Horse Show, Arawata Garden Club, The Glass Circle, The Sewing Circle, DAR, Colonial Dames, Descendents of Early Settlers of Shelby County, West Tennessee Historical Society, The Germantown Arts Alliance, The Dixon, The Memphis Country Club, and past President of Suburban Garden Club. She was also an early member of St. George's Church and active in establishing the school.