U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Samuel Stimson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 21 Nov 1891
Death Date: 13 Sep 1977
SSN: 029207307
Enlistment Date 1:22 Sep 1917
Release Date 1: 13 May 1919
The Hartford Courant (CT)
June 11, 2009Mabel E. Bates, 92, of Southington, died Tuesday (June 9, 2009). She was the widow of Mervin Bates. Born in Springfield, MA, she was the daughter of the late Clifton and Martha (Stimson) Keyes. Mabel formerly resided in Chester and Florida. She was a member of the Ladies Benevolent Society and a Deaconess at the United Church of Christ in Chester. Mabel was also a member of Kings Chapel in Boston.
Surviving are her son and daughter-in-law,??Stanley and Sharon Bates of Haddam, four daughters and two sons-in-law, Linda and Peter Lemnotis of Plantsville, Rosalie and Frank Kauders of Metairie, LA, Susanne Hearrell of Talent, OR, Martha Bates of Uncasville, a brother and sister-in-law, Lawrence and Beverly Keyes of Viera, FL, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
November 29, 2004ORLEANS - Edith L. (Waterhouse) Stimson, 102, died Saturday at Pleasant Bay Nursing Home in Brewster.
She was the wife of John Rieth Stimson Sr., who died in 1983. They were married for 54 years.
Mrs. Stimson was born in Springfield and graduated from Chicopee High School in 1920. She was a homemaker, an avid card player and a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins and Orleans Cardinals. She enjoyed reading, hooking rugs and baking. She also enjoyed teaching and playing cards with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Surviving are a son, John Rieth Stimson Jr. of Brewster; nine grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren. She was the mother of the late Elizabeth "Betty" Housman.
Boston Herald
January 14, 1971Mrs. Marion (Oliver) Coughlin, 83, of 49 Monument Avenue, Swampscott, widow of Attorney Edwin J. Coughlin, died yesterday in Hartford, Conn., enroute from Florida to her home.
A son, Oliver W. Coughlin, is Swampscott town clerk, treasurer and tax collector.
Mrs. Coughlin was a native of Lynn and lived in Swampscott for 47 years. Active in community affairs, she was past president of Atlanta Club of Lynn, a director of the Union Hospital Auxiliary and member of the Women's Business and Professional Club.
She leaves three sons, Edwin J., Jr., Atty. Richard B., and Oliver W., all of Swampscott; four daughters, Mrs. Dorothy H. Bevelander of Newton, who was accompanying her mother home after a Florida vacation; Mrs. Elaine C. Harding of Marblehead; Mrs. M. Janet Ingalls and Mrs. Joan C. Keiver, both of Swampscott; two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Welch of Lynn and Mrs. Natalie Sibley of Marblehead; 22 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Boston Herald (MA)
March 7, 2001Elaine (Coughlin) Harding of Marblehead, a businesswoman and former registered nurse, died Sunday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of pneumonia. She was 92.
Born in Lynn, Mrs. Harding was raised in Swampscott. She graduated from Swampscott High School in 1927 and the Walter Reed Army School of Nursing in Washington, D.C., in 1931.
Mrs. Harding served as a registered nurse at the Public Health Service and later at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., and Lincoln, Neb.
In 1938, she married John William Ryan of Washinton, D.C.
Mrs. Harding returned to the North Shore in 1944 and purchased the John Hooper mansion in Marblehead, which had been owned by her great-great uncle, Henry Pitman, owner of the Marblehead Bank, today's National Grand Bank.
An independent woman for her time, Mrs. Harding founded and directed the Christopher Robin Nursery School in 1945 in the basement of the mansion. The school quickly built a loyal following and offered a range of activities in music, art, dance, structured activity and comportment - good manners, polite and civil behavior and getting along well with others.
With a growing reputation, Mrs. Harding enlarged the program to include a two-month summer beach school at New Ocean House beach in Swampscott.
She married Robert Ware Harding of Brookline and Marblehead in 1948. Several years later, they began to travel abroad. Over 20 years, they visited Cuba, Europe, Russia, Asia, Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico.
Mrs. Harding was an avid fan of the opera, the Boston Symphony, the Red Sox, professional tennis and birding. For many years, she was a parishioner of Our Lady, Star of The Sea, Church in Marblehead.
Wife of the late Robert W., Mrs. Harding is survived by a daughter, Deborah A. of New York City and Washington, D.C.; two sisters, Janet Ingalls of Swampscott and Joan Keiver of Chatham and Fort Myers, Fla.; 21 nieces and nephews and 43 great-nieces and nephews.
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80952. Oliver Wendell Coughlin
Boston Herald
May 30, 1980SWAMPSCOTT -- Oliver W. Coughlin, 63, of Swampscott, who held the offices of two clerk, collector and treasurer for years, died yesterday.
Born in Lynn, he lived most of his life in Swampscott. Coughlin was president of his high school class and captain of the football team. He later played football at the Clark School in Hanover, N.H.
He leaves his wife, Betty (Arnold); one son, J. Edwin of Salem; two daughters, Sally Coughlin of Lynn and Mrs. Andrea Reese of Swampscott; two brothers, Richard of Oly Lyme, Conn. and Edwin J. of Sebasco Estates, Maine; and four sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Bevelander of Chestnut Hill, Mrs. Elaine Harding of Marblehead, Mrs. Janet Ingalls and Mrs. Joan Keiber, both of Swampscott; and one grandson.
Boston Herald (MA)
April 8, 1997John Palmer Ingalls Jr., a lifelong resident of Swampscott and founder and retired president of the former Ingalls-Cronin Co., died Friday at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston after a lengthy illness. He was 80.
Born and raised in Swampscott, Mr. Ingalls was a 1936 graduate of Swampscott High School and attended Gov. Dummer Academy.
During World War II, Mr. Ingalls served with the Edson Rangers, 1st Marine Raiders Battalion, the first group to land on Guadalcanal. He was decorated for his service.
He was president and owner of the Ingalls-Cronin Co., a paper company that was eventaully sold to Carter Rice. Mr. Ingalls remained president until his retirement in 1987.
Active in Swampscott affairs, Mr. Ingalls was a Town Meeting member for many years and served on the Swampscott School Committee for eight years. He served as chairman of the Swampscott Building Needs Committee, chairman of the 1965 Memorial Day Parade Committee and was former chairman of the Swampscott Republican Committee.
He was also a member of the General John Chaisson Committee, the World War II Committee, the Marine Corps League, the American Legion and the VFW, all of Swampscott.
Mr. Ingalls was the founder of the Swampscott Alcoholics Anonymous Group and a member of AA for 43 years.
He was a former member of Tedesco Country Club and a member of the Swampscott Beach Club and Swampscott Club. He was also a member of the First Church in Swampscott Congregational.
Mr. Ingalls is survived by his wife of 53 years, M. Janet (Coughlin); a son, John III of Swampscott; three daughters, Pamela Leger and Nancy P. Gallugi, both of Swampscott, and Patricia Ingalls McGlynn of Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard; a sister, Martha P. Butterworth of Hingham; several nieces and nephews; and 10 grandchildren.
50648. Raymond Osgood Brackett
San Francisco Chronicle
July 30, 1937WAR HERO DIES
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 29 -- Lieutenant Commander Raymond O. Brackett, 52, United States Naval Reserve, decorated by France and England during the World War, today died of a heart ailment at the home of his daughter.
Boston Herald
February 28, 1936BRACKETT - At Marblehead, Feb. 27, Ethel M., wife of Raymond O. Bracket
80957. Grace Elizabeth Brackett
The Boston Globe
October 7, 1986ELISABETH ALSBERG, 75; AUTHOR; OF BOOKS, ARTICLES ON COOKING
Elisabeth (Brackett) Alsberg, active in community and social affiars and an author of articles and books on cooking and other subjects, died of cancer Sunday in her home. She was 75.
Mrs. Alsberg was a lifelong resident of Marblehead. She received a degree in English from Wellesley College in 1932.
She was a past trustee for 12 years of Abbot Public Library, chairman of the Marblehead Bicentennial Commission, member of the Committee on the Town Report, the Committee to Celebrate the 350th Anniversary of the Founding of Marblehead and a member of the Marblehead Commission to Celebrate the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Mrs. Alsberg was active in local theaters for many years. She acted in or directed over 50 plays for the Tavern Players of Lynn and later for the Marblehead Little Theater.
She founded the Travelwise Agency in Marblehead in 1952 and worked there as a part-time travel consultant after she sold the business in 1964. Mrs. Alsberg escorted tour groups as a certified travel counselor and visited more than 100 countries.
For many years, she taught cooking and lectured throughout New England. She was a regular guest every Wednesday on "Ken and Carolyn," a radio program on WNAC in Boston devoted to sewing, cooking and decorating. She wrote two books, "Everyday Gourmet" and "Everyday Gourmet and Left with a Left Over." She also wrote a biweekly cooking newsletter.
Mrs. Alsberg served as a board member of the Boston Symphony Cook Book committee. She has written regularly for various publications on travel, cooking, world affairs and profiles and anecdotes of Marblehead and Greenwich Village in New York City.
In 1985 she received the Lighthouse Award for "Outstanding Service to the Town" and in 1982 received the Old Marblehead Improvement Association award for her contributions to preserving local traditions.
She served for 30 years on the Altar guild of St. Michael's Church. She also was a member of the Archives Committee and had managed the church restoration efforts there.
She was a member of many organizations, including the Marblehead Historical Society, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Marblehead Arts Association, The Peabody Museum of Salem, The Essex Institute of Salem and the House of Seven Gables.
She leaves her husband, George M. Alberg; three sons, Noble Smith of Marblehead, Michael B. Smith of Rockville, Maryland, and Timothy Smith of Swampscott; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Boston Herald
January 19, 1962MARBLEHEAD -- Ralph Leslie Smith, 61, of 32 State St., a building contractor, died Thursday at Salem Hospital.
A native of Rutland, Vt., he had lived in Marblehead 27 years. He is a member of the vestry of St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Eastern Yacht Club, and Boston Yacht Club.
He leaves his wife, Elisabeth (Brackett); three sons, Noble and Timothy of Marblehead and Michael of Tehran, Iran; a sister, Mrs. Rena Reed of Dumiston, Vt. and two grandchildren.
Boston Herald
September 19, 1939G.P. Brackett Is Dead at 52, Active Yachtsman on North Shore
MARBLEHEAD, Sept. 18 -- G. Paul Brackett, 52, North Shore yachtsman and director in the Boston investment securities firm of Gregg & Storer & Co., died tonight at his home on Harbor avenue, Marblehead Neck, after a long illness.
Former hotel operator and realtor, Mr. Brackett served for three years recently and without pay as harbormaster here, was sponsor of the current proposal to deepen the harbor and drafted the harbor regulations now in effect.
He was born in Springfield, the son of Gilbert H. and Mattie Stimson Brackett. He was educated at preparatory and commercial schools, Boston University the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After many years as a member of the firm operating the Hotel Rockmere, he entered the real estate business in 1927, developed realty on Marblehead Neck and came to be the holder of much property here.
During the World War he served as an ensign in the navy. He was a former president of the local chamber of commerce, and had served since 1928 as chairman of the Marblehead chapter of the Red Cross. He was a Republican and an Episcopalian.
Mr. Brackett was a member of the Eastern and Corinithian Yacht clubs. In 1911 he married Miss Mary Blanchard Bridge, who survives him. He also leaves a son, Robert Paul Brackett, a daughter, Mrs. Martha B. Speck of California, wife of Lt. Robert H. Speck, U.S.N.; and a grandson, Robert H. Speck, Jr.
80958. Martha Blanchard Brackett
Boston Herald
April 23, 1979SPECK -- Formerly of Marblehead in Wynnewood, Pa., April 16, Martha (Brackett) wife of Rear Admiral Robert H. Speck, U.S.N. (Ret.) of 132 Adrienne Lane, Wynnewood, Pa.
Rear Admiral Robert Hursey Speck
Philadelphia Inquirer
June 1, 1990Rear Admiral Robert H. Speck, 83, a combat veteran of the South Pacific who was commandant of the Fourth Naval District and commander of the Philadelphia Navy Base from 1965 to 1968, died Wednesday at the Beaumont at Bryn Mawr retirement community.
The admiral was called out of retirement to serve as governor of the Naval Home at 24th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue from 1970 to 1974.
Admiral Speck was born in Oscaloosa, Iowa, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1927. During World War II, he won two Bronze Stars and an Asiatic- Pacific campaign ribbon with eight battle stars.
A specialist in ordnance and gunnery, he spent the early part of the war in development work at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Va. He later saw action at Saipan, Tinian, the Marshalls and the Philippines.
Admiral Speck commanded the destroyer Longshaw as the vessel took part in operations connected with the invasion of Okinawa. He also was operations and planning officer for the commander of the amphibious group that landed on the Japanese island of Hokkaido at the war's end.
After the war, he attended the Naval War College in Rhode Island and was assigned to command a destroyer squadron in the Atlantic Fleet. He was named an admiral in 1956 and given command of a destroyer flotilla in the Western Pacific.
From 1961 to 1963, he was commander of all destroyers and cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet during a period that included the Cuban missile crisis.
Admiral Speck became commandant of the Fourth Naval District and commander of the Philadelphia Navy Base in 1965. As commandant of the naval district, he was responsible for coordinating all Navy and Navy Reserve activities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware and South Jersey.
The admiral retired from the Navy in 1968 after 41 years of service. He then worked briefly as business manager of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, until he was called out of retirement to head the Naval Home.
Admiral Speck "was very fond of Philadelphia," said his son, Robert H. Jr.
He became involved in a variety of civic affairs and was chairman of the Boys Work Committee of the Union League of Philadelphia. He was a frequent speaker in Philadelphia for the Navy League and other community groups.
Admiral Speck was a member of the Merion Cricket Club and the Philadelphia Racquet Club. He was an avid tennis player and had run the quarter mile and the half mile as an Annapolis midshipman.
He was married to Martha Blanchard Brackett, who died in 1978.
He is survived by his wife, Frances Townsend Speck; son, Robert H. Jr., and three stepsons, Charles T. Alexander, Edward T. Alexander and Henry deH. Alexander.
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Robert Brackett
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1922
Death Date: 7 Aug 1978
SSN: 023142846