The Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, MA)
December 24, 2007NORTON - Judith M. Peasley, 84, of Mansfield Avenue, died early Friday morning, Dec. 21, 2007, at Epoch of Norton Nursing Facility. She was the beloved wife of the late Charles Peasley.
Born Oct. 4, 1923 in North Carolina, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Vivian (Crabtree) Williams.
Judy grew up in North Carolina and lived in Plainville most of her life before moving to Norton several years ago. She served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and worked as an expediter for many years at Plainville Stock Company before retiring in 1976. She was a member of the American Legion in Plainville and had been active for many years in Plainville United Methodist Church, working in the church's Couples Club and Senior Fellowship.
Her survivors include two sons, Robert Peasley of Rehoboth and Barry Peasley of Attleboro; a sister, Betty Lou Core of Texas; and two grandsons, Andrew and Daniel Peasley. She was sister of the late John "Jack" Williams.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
January 20, 1997Arlene (nee Hannaford), dear wife of the late Dudley Bradstreet, loving mother of Carol Eggerding and Dwight (Gail) Bradstreet, dear grandmother of Dwight, Jeffery and Ryan.
Survived by three sisters in Massachusetts.
Friday, January 17, 1997. Age 90 of Clifton.
72913. Ethel Louise Bradstreet
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
September 6, 2005Maney, Ethel L. (Nee Bradstreet) died on September 2, 2005 in Milwaukee at the age of 88.
A long-time resident of St. John's On the Lake, she was the loving wife of the late John Maney and is survived by her daughters, Ardith, of Ames, Iowa and Laurel (Charles Foote) of Milwaukee; and her son, Jack (Michele Langlais) of Malabar, Florida.
Her family and many friends will remember her vivacity and love of nature. We will also remember her passion for peace, social justice, and education for all people.
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WORTHINGTON - Phyllis Starck Albro Gare, 89, of Worthington, passed away Wednesday, June 26, 2013.
She was born on Cape Cod in 1923 and was educated in Cape Cod and Boston schools.
She had a lifelong interest in horticulture and landscaping and a number of New England homes have her garden designs. She traveled all over the world and visited the gardens in many countries.
She was married to Ward A. Albro, M.D. of Maine from 1943 to 1963 and to Lieutenant Colonel Luther S. Gare of Northampton from 1968 to 1986.
She was the previous owner of two businesses, The Cedar Chest of Northampton and Partridge Hill Antiques of Worthington.
She leaves five children, Kristin Albro Harvey and her husband Edward J. Harvey, Jr., of Worthington, Carl Starck Albro and his wife Donna W. Albro of Bridgewater, David Ward Albro of Nashville, Tenn., Eric Jonathan Albro and his partner Charles Laska of Milwaukee, Wis., and Jan Albro Gallant and her husband Robert V. Gallant of Amherst, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, IA)
August 17, 2020Joice Marie (Garrett) Gare, age 97, passed away on July 28, at her home, in Northampton, Mass.
Born on April 2, 1923, in Council Bluffs, to the late Hugh M. Garrett, Sr. and the late Mary A. (Clark) Garrett.
She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, class of 1941, in Council Bluffs, and attended Iowa State College, in Ames, Iowa, until the beginning of WWII. During the war she worked on the second shift (4 p.m. - midnight) in the personnel department of the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Co., south of Omaha, Neb., in an office under the wings of B-26s and later B-29s. After the war she worked for IBM, in Omaha, operating business machines that were the very beginnings of computers.
Joice married Edward John Gare III (always known as John), of Northampton, on October 10, 1948, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Council Bluffs.
Since John worked in the family business (E.J. Gare & Son - a jewelry store on Main St.), they made their home in Northampton, where they lived until John's death on October 3, 1990. Joice worked first at IBM in Springfield, Mass., then at Smith College as a secretary, in the chemistry department, until their daughter, Alison Joice, was born in December 1952. A stay-at-home mom until their second child, daughter, Tracey, was in school, Joice returned to Smith College and worked there half-time for the next 40 years as secretary in both the chemistry and mathematics departments - retiring in 1998. Through the years, Joice served on boards of the Girl Scouts, United Cerebral Palsy, the Lathrop Home, Dollars for Scholars, and was a member of Betty Ann Chapter of DAR. The family took numerous car trips across the country, and also forty-some tours of many European countries with a local travel group, which continued well after her retirement. She was a member of First Churches, in Northampton, and also participated in classes through The Five College Learning in Retirement program.
Joice was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her daughter, Alison; and brothers, Paul L. Garrett and H. Morgan Garrett, Jr.
She leaves her daughter, Tracey (Gare) Polachek and husband Daniel; grandsons, Daniel Polachek, of Northampton, and Edward Polachek, of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands; sister-in-law, Jessie (Gare) Bierwert, of Northampton; sister, Rosemary Williams and husband Charles, of Council Bluffs; nieces, Lisa Williams, of Council Bluffs, Patricia Leary, of Davis, Calif., Crisca Bierwert, of Wash., Karen Bierwert, of Northampton, Pamela Gare, of Fla., Candace McDougall, of Southampton; nephews, John Williams, of Omaha, Michael Garrett, of Simi Valley, Calif., Stephen Garrett, of Stockton, Wash., Kim Bierwert, of Leeds, H.M (Sonny) Garrett III, of Wash., and Donald Garrett, of Minn.; as well as cousins in Nebraska.
Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA)
April 25, 1993Donald V. Bierwert, 73, of 92 Barrett St., a retired 38-year chemical engineer at Monsanto Chemical Co., died Friday in The Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
He retired in 1981. Born in Minneapolis, Minn., he had lived in Northampton since 1943. He graduated in 1943 from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. A member of the Jerusalem Lodge of Masons, he was a former member of the Lions Club of Northampton. He was a former water commissioner for this city, and in the 1950s, he served on the special needs committee for the school system.
sHe leaves his wife, the former Jessie Gare; a son, Kim G. of the Leeds section; two daughters, Crisca Bierwert of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Karen Bierwert of Northampton; a brother, Thane L. of Mendran, N.J.; a sister, Elizabeth Kuhn of Beulah, N.D., and four grandchildren.