70473. Richard Hilton Pettingell
Sudbury Town Crier (MA)
February 16, 2006Richard H. Pettingell, 58, of Sudbury, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006, at home from complications from a lengthy battle with glioblastoma multiforma, a virulent brain cancer.
He was the husband of Christine (Lentine) Pettingell for 35 years.
Born in Claremont, N.H., the child of a construction engineer, he lived in more than 14 different communities in New England and upstate New York prior to his graduation from New Bedford
High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a law degree from Northeastern University.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving from 1967 to 1970, and he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal following his service in Korea.
In 1982, he became a partner of the Boston law firm of Morrison, Mahoney and Miller, where he specialized in maritime and insurance defense litigation. He was the creator and first head of the firm's admiralty practice and in 1993, he founded his own admiralty law firm.
A past chairman of Sudbury's Town Finance Committee and its Insurance Advisory Committee, Mr. Pettingell coached Little League baseball, girls softball and boys soccer.
Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Andrew H. of Los Angeles and Michael N. Pettingell of Sudbury; three sisters, Candace Lister of Stamford, N.Y., Ann Perlman of North Kingstown, R.I., and Margaret Dalpe of Charlotte, N.C.; and two brothers, Winslow of Concord and Warren of Newton.
The Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
September 29, 2012Nicholas J. Waters, 87 - of Mays Landing, Senior Master Chief, Master Diver, Retired USN, died September 24, 2012.
He was a loving husband to Laverne G. Waters and father to Nicholas J. Waters III, both deceased. He is survived by three sons: Stephen of Pleasantville, Robert of EHC, and Michael of Wading River; six grandchildren: Kelly, Elizabeth, Mariel, Nicholas IV, Michael and Matthew; and four great grandchildren.
After 30 plus years in the Navy, he was the honored recipient of 25 medals for serving in three wars. For many years he was an active volunteer with the Lower Bank Volunteer Fire Company, St. Theresa's Church, the LEH American Legion, Tuckerton VFW, and various other service organizations.
The Press of Atlantic City (NJ)
March 17, 2007WATERS, LaVERNE G., 82 - of Wading River, passed away at home with her loved ones by her side, Wednesday evening March 14th. LaVerne was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1924 and resided there until 1943 when she met her husband of 63 years, Nicholas J. Waters, who originally from Pleasantville. After many separations due to Nicks thirty years in the U.S. Navy they settled in Wading River, where they have resided for the last Thirty Two Years.
LaVerne was very active in church and community affairs belonging to the St. Theresa Church Alter Rosary Society and helping the local school and fire company with various projects.
LaVerne is survived by her loving husband Nick, and three sons, Stephen D. Waters of Pleasantville, Robert H. Waters of Egg Harbor City, and Michael W. Waters of Wading River; and several nieces and nephews.
Laverne was predeceased by her oldest son Nicholas J. Waters III she is also survived by five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
She was devoted to her family and loved to spend time with them especially her grandchildren.
She will always be remembered as leaving a lasting impression on everyone she met with her love and willingness to help out in any situation.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
April 17, 2002ESTABROOK, Martha Rogerson, 86, of Cranberry, died April 6. Glenn-Kildoo Chapel, Cranberry.
Easton Journal (MA)
February 15, 2008Sylvia Landon Vaill King, 95, of South Easton, died on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008 after a long, well-lived life. She has been living with her daughter, Susan Plante, in South Easton. She was the wife of the late Francis Rogerson King who died in 1985.
Born Dec. 11, 1912, in Winsted, Conn., she was the daughter of the late Dudley Landon Vaill and Leila Strobridge Holmes Vaill. She was the sixth of eight living children. She attended the Gilbert School in Winsted 1927-29, Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. 1929-1931, the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1931-32 and the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 1933-an affiliate of Columbia University. She studied biochemistry, bacteriology, hematology and serology. After meeting her husband in 1946 at her family home in Winsted, she wed him a mere six months later on June 29, 1947 and moved into a rustic old farmhouse on 60 acres on Smith Hill in Winsted. They moved to Cheshire, Conn., in 1951. In 1954 the family relocated to Meriden, Conn. In 1961 they built the South Wellfleet house and moved there permanently in 1971. Faced with declining health she moved to South East-on in July 2006 to reside with her daughter, Susan, and her family.
Mrs. King was employed by the New York Post Graduate Hospital 1933-37 as a diagnostician and clinical assistant to Ward J. MacNeal, MD. She received an appointment to the faculty of Columbia University as an Assistant in Bacteriology in Oct. 1935.
After some European travels, she attended the American School of Design in New York 1937-38 and became a free-lance designer for book jackets and advertising layout. During World War II 1942-45, she was employed as a draftsman by Guided Radio Corp. in New York. Upon her return to Winsted in 1945, she did research in amino acids for the Keratene Co.
After her husband's death in 1985, Mrs. King continued to bowl weekly and remained active in the Chequessett Yacht and Country Club, becoming somewhat of a legend as she continued to carry her own clubs into her late 80's. She did consent to using a golf cart in her 90's and played until 93. She was known for her fanciful and hilarious costumes for the Halloween parties and was once seen jumping out of a giant cake for a birthday celebration.
Mrs. King leaves her three children, Susan Holmes King Plante, Carolyn Rogerson King Everett and Thomas Vaill King; eight grandchildren, Leila Holmes Everett Macauto, Kirsten Kampton Everett, Jonathan Vaill King, Anna Rivard King, Daniel Rogerson King, Rebecca Duchesnes King, Andrew Rogerson Plante and Megan Vaill Plante and numerous nephews and nieces.
Boston Herald (MA)
November 23, 2009Francis C. Rogerson Jr. of Florida and Duxbury, a retired engineer, died Nov. 7 at Florida Hospital Hospice Care in Ponce Inlet, Fla., after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 80.
Born in Brookline, Mr. Rogerson grew up summering in Duxbury. He lived in Duxbury until moving to Ponce Inlet, Fla., in 1992.
He earned a master's degree in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Rogerson served in the Army during the Korean War as a radio operator.
As a registered professional engineer, he worked on many projects throughout New England. In the early 1970s, he and two partners purchased the former Cordage Works from the Columbian Rope Co. and developed the property into Cordage Park, a complex of retail, industrial and business offices. Mr. Rogerson retired when the complex was sold in 1990.
He was a volunteer member of the Duxbury Fire Department, Engine Co. 1.
While living in Duxbury, Mr. Rogerson served as chairman of the Conservation Commission for six years and on various town building and study committees between 1955 and 1989. He served as director of the Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce and Plymouth Development and Industrial Commission during the '70s and '80s. From 1972 to 1985, he was treasurer of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra.
After moving to Florida, he joined the Ponce Inlet Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department and served as secretary until he was elected to the Ponce Inlet Town Council, serving from 1998 to 2000 and then 2001 to 2005, during which term he was vice mayor. He was a member of the town code enforcement board from 1996 to 1998 and the planning commission from 2006 to 2008.
Mr. Rogerson was a member of the Duxbury and Plymouth yacht clubs and later the Halifax Yacht Club in Florida. He was active with the Masons in both Massachusetts and Florida, achieving the rank of grand master, the highest in the Bay State.
He held the highest level amateur ham radio license and a glider pilot's license.
Mr. Rogerson is survived by his wife, Janet (Singhal); two sons, Robert and Thomas both of Duxbury; a daughter, Terry Spoor of Duxbury; two stepchildren, Ranjeet Singhal and Beena Singhal; and nine grandchildren.
Bowdoin College Obituaries
David Sargent Rogerson �54 died on December 15, 2008, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, N.H.
Born on June 20, 1931, in Boston, Mass., he prepared for college at the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass., and became a member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity at Bowdoin.
Following his graduation, he served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956, attaining the rank of first lieutenant. In 1956, he joined the faculty at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., where for 11 years he taught history and mathematics and coached varsity hockey and JV football and baseball. In 1967, he became the director of admissions and athletic director at the Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts.There, he taught history and coached football, hockey, lacrosse, and baseball. In 1989, he was elected to the Massachusetts Hockey Coaches Hall of Fame. He retired from the Groton School in 1990 and moved to Bridgewater,Vt. He worked in the admissions office at the Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan, N.H., for five years, and for several more years was a tutor at the Bridgewater Village School. An outstanding collegiate athlete, he played hockey with the Cambridge Comets in the South Shore Amateur Hockey League.
He is survived by his wife, Anita Andres Rogerson, whom he married in 1958; two daughters, Laura R. Moore of Groton, Mass., who is married to Robinson C. Moore 77, and Anita P. Morris of Woodstock,Vt.; two sons, David A. Rogerson of New York, N.Y., and Henry S. Rogerson of Santa Fe, N.M.; eight grandchildren, including Grace S. Moore 08; and a brother, Charles Rogerson of Duxbury, Mass.