78158. Benjamin Richardson Chadwick
The Marblehead Reporter
October 12, 2009Benjamin Richardson Chadwick , native Marbleheader, known as "Uncle Ben", died August 11, 2009, age 100. His wife, Marion Balmer Chadwick, died August 20, 2008, age 97. They were married for 71 years, living in Dover, NH for the last 14 years.
Their ashes were spread by their children on the waters near Tinker's Island from the fishing boat of their grandson
The Swampscott Reporter
September 11, 2008Marion Louise Balmer Chadwick, RN, 97, died August 20, 2008, in Dover, N.H.
Mrs. Chadwick was born July 21, 1911, in Salem, where she attended school. As a registered nurse, she worked at Salem Hospital and the Mary Alley Hospital of Marblehead.
In 1937, she married Benjamin R. Chadwick of Marblehead.
She leaves five children, Benjamin E. of New Hampshire, Louise B. Clay of California, Harriet C. Nichols of Massachusetts, Elizabeth R. Alberda of Michigan, and Susanne W. Self of Colorado.
In addition, she leaves nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Chadwick enjoyed quilting and made nine quilts all by hand for her grandchildren. She was also known for her special Marblehead "Joe Frog-gers." She was a longtime member of the Old North Congregational Church. Mrs. Chadwick spent many hours working in Chadwick's Hardware store finding "thingamajigs" for customers.
She will be greatly missed by family and friends.
The Marblehead Reporter
April 8-15, 2011Margaret E. (Downey) Chadwick, age 93, wife of the late Lester Chadwick of Marblehead died at home on Monday evening April 4, 2011 at home surrounded by her family.
A lifelong resident of Marblehead she was born in Marblehead, the daughter of the late Thomas R. and Helen E. (Mullen) Downey, Mrs. Chadwick took great pride in her family and being a "Header". Shortly after graduating Marblehead High School, she married her late husband and began her family, which was at the center of her life. Everything she did was about family. Mrs. Chadwick loved to have slumber parties for her grandchildren on any occasion. She had a certain way of making New Year's Eve overnights extra special. A super nana she loved the kids, their sporting events and fishing on the boat. She enjoyed watching the Red Sox on T.V., was always willing to try her luck at Cribbage, and had a way of taking the ordinary and making it special. Mrs. Chadwick will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
The mother of three children she was predeceased by a son Lester Chadwick Jr., with whom she did a lot of traveling, and is survived by two daughters Pat Peach and her husband Ted of Marblehead and Kay Monahan and her life Partner Pete Dorney of Marblehead; a daughter in law Melanie Chadwick of West Chester, Pa.; and a former son in law Marblehead Fire Department Acting Lieutenant Frank "Frankie Darlin" Monahan of Marblehead; seven grandchildren Julie Sullivan and her husband Bob of Marblehead, Pam "My Doll" LaPone and her husband Earl of Centerton, Ark, Elizabeth Full and her husband Jimmy of Nashville, Tenn., Frank T. Monahan Jr. "My Frankie Darlin" and Christopher Monahan and his wife Stephanie all of Marblehead, Kirsten Chadwick and her husband Marc Zwillenger of Bethesda, Md. and John Chadwick and his wife Marcy of Wexford, Pa.; and 10 great grandchildren Courtney, Mikey, Christopher, Reilley, Shayla, David, Madison, Jonah, Gabriel and Emily; and three nephews, Tom, Cal and Roy, "My Love" Hamson.
She was predeceased by her identical twin sister, Helen Hamson.
Union�News (Springfield, MA)
July 28, 2000Elizabeth C. Ham, 94, of 237 Spencer Drive, said to be the person for whom the famed racehorse Secretariet was named and a Mount Holyoke College activist, died Sunday at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
She was executive secretary to Christopher Chenery, chairman of the board of Southern Natural Gas Co. and owner of Meadow Stables when Secretariat was born in 1970.
The horse, who was owned by Chenery's daughter, Penny Chenery Tweedy, went on to win horse racing's Triple Crown - the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. The horse is considered to be one of the greatest race horses in history.
An avid horsewoman, Ham was quoted as saying "Mr. Chenery's great love of horses was for me, the frosting on the cake of an already wonderful job." She worked for Chenery for more than 30 years.
An active volunteer in the Mount Holyoke College alumnae office, she was co-chairwoman of the school's sesquicentennial auction in 1987. She was the class of 1928 agent, scribe, vice president and reunion chairwoman.
She received Mount Holyoke College's Medal of Honor in 1978 in recognition of her work with the college .
She was secretary to Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis in the 1930s and accompanied him to the London disarmament conferences.
She was a horsewoman and the legendary 1973 Triple Crown winner, Secretariat, was named for her.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was a 1928 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and lived in Garden City, Long Island, N.Y., and Scarsdale, N.Y., before moving to Longmeadow.
She leaves a nephew, Allan M. Doyle Jr. of New Hampshire and formerly of Longmeadow; and two grandnephews, S. Bradford Doyle of Rhode Island and Jonathan M. Doyle of Belchertown.
Find-a-Grave
FREDERICK - In Marblehead, October 26, Miss Ethel M., formerly of Orne Strre, after a lengthy illness, at the age of 72 years.
Boston Globe
September 12, 1981Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Arland Durlan Chapel at Waterside Cemetery, Marblehead, for Avard (Pat) Morris, 72, one of the last schooner captains. He died yesterday morning in Anna Jacques Hospital here.
Mr. Morris was an ocean ship captain in the Marblehead area for many years. He was the captain of the yacht Pleoine until it was sold to Mystic Seaport, Conn. He was one of the last schooner captains and had sailed in the lumber trade from Nova Scotia to East Coast ports. In the 1920s he was a crew member in an expedition to the South Seas.
Mr. Morris retired recently from a position at Combustion Engineering Co., Boston.
Born in Advocate Harbor, Nova Scotia, he lived 50 years in Marblehead before moving recently to Newburyport.
He leaves his wife, Louise (Frederick); a daughter, Betsy Kiernan of Newburyport; three grandchildren, and three brothers and a sister, all of Canada.