Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
October 10, 2010HANOVER, N.H. � Ruth Ebling, 95, of Hanover, N.H., died Oct. 3, 2010.
She was a loving mother and grandmother, accomplished cook, library organizer, volunteer, and wife of William F. Ebling for 60 years.
Born Oct. 16, 1914, in Montclair, N.J., she graduated from the Master's School in Yonkers and then from Vassar College in 1936. Following college, she worked as an editorial assistant and librarian for the renowned psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg.
She raised a family of four children in West Hartford, Conn., and served Vassar College, the Universalist Church and her children's schools in various volunteer posts.
Later, she worked as the librarian for the Institute of Living, a psychiatric hospital in Hartford, Conn. She worked as a fundraiser and manager on large capital campaigns for Hartford's Watkinson School and Hartford Easter Seals.
Retiring in 1976, she and Will settled in the place they loved most, Cotuit, Mass. There she co-authored an acclaimed oyster cookbook, researching all its recipes and earning high praise from the New York Times food critic and others.
Avid hikers, Ruth and Will climbed all 48 of the White Mountains' 4,000-footers. She enjoyed sewing, crocheting and archiving family history. She loved jigsaw and crossword puzzles, golf, sailing and bridge.
In 1991, Ruth and Will retired again to the Kendal at Hanover. There she was instrumental in setting up the Kendal library and overseeing its growth. She ran the annual book sale and assisted Alzheimer's patients. Those who knew her remember Ruth for her humility, steady kindness and cheerful patience.
Ruth is survived by two daughters, Laura Ebling and Susan Happ, both of Sheffield, Mass.; two sons, David and his wife Louise of Guilford, Conn., and Peter of Bloomfield, N.J.; two sisters, Edith Gieg and Faith Mattison, both of Hanover, N.H.; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The Barnstable Patriot (MA)
July 24, 2009Stow -- Joseph Mattison, 91, of Chestnut Hill and Osterville, died July 15, 2009, in Stow at the home of his son, Peter.
He was born in Montclair, N.J., and raised in New York. He attended the Loomis School in Windsor, CT, and graduated Harvard College in 1939. In 1941, he and Elizabeth "Beth" Moir married in Chestnut Hill, where they lived for 56 years.
When World War II came along, Mr. Mattison joined the Army, serving as an infantry first lieutenant in the European Theater. During night action in Germany, he led a column of volunteers on foot across open fields to re-supply front line troops pinned down by heavy German fire. In recognition, he was awarded the Silver Star.
As a boy, he spent summers at the Mattison family cottage in Cotuit. There he learned to sail in the quaint and cranky Cotuit skiff. Soon after he and Beth married, they moved to Osterville and took up sailing the equally quaint but more refined Wianno Senior sloop. A skilled helmsman and tactician, he regularly "brought home the silver." For many years, with his family, he cruised and raced his yacht "Kypris" in the waters of New England, around Nova Scotia, and to Bermuda.
An investment broker, Mr. Mattison was for 60 years a familiar face in Boston's financial district, where his tall, lanky frame was easily recognizable hurrying down State Street.
He started his career in 1945 at Estabrook & Co. next to the Old State House, rising to president of the firm by the time it merged with Moseley some 30 years later. He later worked at several other firms - always preferring those with strong local ties - retiring from Moors & Cabot in 2007. On the Street, he was known for his honesty, good sense, quiet demeanor, quick wit and charitable nature. He seldom said an unkind word about anyone, unless they truly deserved it.
Mr. Mattison was involved with several charities and non-profits. In 1964, he collaborated with his friend, Elliot Richardson, (later Massachusetts and U.S. Attorney General) to campaign for the United Fund. Together they helped the Fund break the $10,000,000 mark for the first time. He also served on the board of what has become the United South End Settlements, and was a trustee of The Dexter School for many years.
He is survived by his children, Mary M. Wells of Osterville, Peter D. Mattison of Stow, Deborah M. Angotti of Westport, CT, and Bruce M. Mattison of Osterville, as well as nine grandchildren. His sisters, Ruth Ebling, Edith Gieg, and Faith Mattison of New Hampshire also survive him. His wife, Beth Mattison, and his eldest son, Joseph "Jeff" Mattison III, predeceased him.
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
October 14, 2013Anthony S. Felsovanyi M.D. M.A.C.P. December 20 1914 - October 7 2013
Dr. Felsovanyi served his community as a beloved physician a revered clinical professor a profoundly compassionate human being and devoted friend for over 65 years. From his early medical training at Johns Hopkins Yale service as Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service then in 1946 as the first Fellow in Cardiology at Stanford until his death his practice exemplified the highest standard of medical excellence integrity and compassion.
81056. David Locke Webster III
The Seattle Times (WA)
July 18, 2005David Webster III logged 31,000 hours as a pilot
It has been decades since the Webster clan sat around watching 16-mm homemade films of patriarch David L. Webster III as a youngster frolicking in the buff on an out-of-the-way beach.
It was a pastime he never really outgrew.
"If a beach was deserted, he and my mom would be out there naked, cooking hot dogs. That was just part of his personality," said his son, David Webster IV of Issaquah, the youngest and only son among the four children Mr. Webster had with his first wife, Tru.
For the Webster family, memories of Mr. Webster's antics mesh with the memories of his accomplishments.
"His life was really mostly about flying," said his son. As a commercial pilot for more than a half-century, he logged 31,000 hours in the air, piloting 100 different aircraft. "For him, the best part was he had fun doing it all," said his son.
Mr. Webster flew floatplanes and helicopters for a charter service after 35 years as a pilot with Pan American World Airways. He died Thursday (July 14) at a Mercer Island nursing home, Covenant Shores.
A Mercer Island resident since 1950, he had been in the facility about four weeks, after breaking his leg in a fall at his home. He was 88.
Mr. Webster grew up around the Stanford University campus in California where his father headed the physics department. His mother was a progressive educator who established the private Peninsula School for elementary-age youngsters in Menlo Park, Calif.
"His mother taught him independence and organization, and his father taught him mechanics and flying," said his son.
His first airplane ride came at age 11, in a Boeing B-1 flying boat around Elliott Bay to Bremerton. It was enough for the flying bug to take hold. He learned to fly in his father's single-engine, two-seat plane, a Piper Cub he called "The Flying Professor."
Mr. Webster went to work for Pan Am in 1942, and for more than three decades flew 17 different planes, from the 15-passenger twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar to Boeing's 314 flying boats and 747 jumbo jets.
After reaching Pan Am's mandatory retirement age, he spent the next 17 years flying charter flights for Kenmore Air Harbor and for his own helicopter service, frequently around the Northwest and to Alaska.
Some of his clients included local photographers on assignment.
"Dave was a gifted pilot with skilled hands at the controls," said Seattle Times staff photographer Greg Gilbert. "He knew what I wanted and got it right, without having to circle around, as would often happen with other pilots."
He retired again at age 77, with another 6,000 hours in his logbook.
Mr. Webster kept nearly three-dozen photo albums meticulously documenting his adventures on land, sea and in the air. He was a founding member of the Mercer Island Beach Club.
His first wife, Tru, died in 1993 after 51 years of marriage. He remarried two years later.
Besides his son, he is survived by his wife, Isabel; and daughters, Wendy Birdwell of Seattle, Trudy Krastins of Issaquah, and Sheila Finkenbinder of Sitka, Alaska. Also surviving are his sister, Helen Wheelwright of North Bennington, Vt.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
50742. Herbert Towle Weston Jr.
Lincoln Journal Star (NE)
February 19, 2001Weston -- Herbert T. Jr., 86, Beatrice, died Sunday (2/18/01). Born, Beatrice. Farm manager, Beatrice.
Survivors: wife, Marian; daughter, Katharine Cohen, Murray, Ky.; son, Herbert T. III, Beatrice; three grandsons.
81072. Curry McLeod Bartlett Jr.
Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY)
November 30, 2005Curry M. Bartlett, Jr., of Rome, died Sunday, November 20, 2005, at the Siegenthaler Center Hospice Facility in New Hartford. Born in New York City on February 27,1923, he was the son of the late Curry M. Bartlett, Sr. and Anna Janet Dunn.
As a youth, he moved to Damariscotta, Maine to live with his extended family prior to returning to New York City in his early teens.
In 1941, he enlisted and spent four years defending his country in the South Pacific as a member of the Army Air Force. During the course of his service he earned three bronze unit stars and flew 26 combat missions as a B-17 radio operator and gunner.
Following his honorable discharge from the Air Force, he moved to Connecticut, where in 1952 he met and married the late Beatrice Mae Lockwood. In 1964, he moved to the Utica/Rome area with his wife and children. Mr. Bartlett enjoyed a diverse career. In his earlier years, he worked in the public media sector including positions as a radio announcer in Houlton, Maine, an advertising executive for the Milford Connecticut Citizen and an advertising manager for the Fairfield Connecticut News. Later, he held positions with the Chamber of Commerce, first in Milford and then West Hartford, Connecticut, before eventually accepting a position as Vice President of the Rome New York Chamber of Commerce in 1969.
He also was active in the United Church of Christ and worked from 1964 until 1969 as church administrator and youth group coordinator for Plymouth Bethesda United Church of Christ in Utica. He subsequently served as a lay minister at various parishes around the Central New York region for many years.
In 1973, he was appointed Executive Director of the Historic Rome Development Authority, where he lead efforts to obtain funding for the Erie Canal Village project, consisting of bond issues, federal grants and numerous private donations, including a number of historic buildings and a steam train. Mr. Bartlett oversaw the construction of the village as it exists today, with a canal boat capable of carrying 130 passengers; a restored section of the Erie Canal; numerous original historic structures and a narrow gauge steam train.
He was the husband of Beatrice L. Bartlett, deceased; and the father of Alan R. Bartlett, also deceased. He is survived by his other three children, Curry M. Bartlett, III, and his wife, Christine of Nashua, NH, Charles (Chuck) Bartlett; and his wife, Annette of Clifton Park and Elizabeth (Betsy) Bartlett and Greg LaBarge of East Greenbush. He was the grandfather of Michael, Kaitlin, Kristin and Meranda; and the loving companion of Betty Anne Van Waldick of Rome, in his later years. He is also survived by his brothers, Robert Bartlett of Newton, NH and Donald Bartlett of Hampstead, NH; as well as a cousin, Charlotte Zahn of Carrabasett, ME. C
The Washington Post (DC)
May 1, 1996Lucy Walsh Phinney, 54, a Prince William County volunteer and civic activist who wrote "Yesterday's Schools," a history of the county school system, died of cancer April 27 at her home in Woodbridge.
Mrs. Phinney was chairwoman of the Prince William County Historical Commission and a founder and president of Historic Prince William Inc. She was a volunteer at the Potomac Library for 18 years, a Red Cross cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructor for seven years and a Brownie leader for three years.
She was a room mother at Neabsco Elementary School, a library aide at Godwin Middle School, founder of the Prince William County schools annual spelling bee, a volunteer with the Gar-Field High School history department and a member of the Prince William Schools Gifted and Talented Advisory Council.
She was also a former president of the Bel Air Woman's Club and a co-founder of its baby-sitting clinic, a church school teacher at Fairfax Unitarian Church and a member of Mount Vernon Unitarian Church, where she co-founded the Book Nook. She was the author of a history of the church.
Mrs. Phinney had received the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Dale City Jaycees and the Chamber of Commerce Cultural Arts Award.
She was editor of "A History of Prince William County."
Mrs. Phinney was born in Syracuse, N.Y., and graduated from Tufts University. From 1962 to 1965, she was a high school English teacher in Pittsford, N.Y. In 1973, she moved to the Washington area.
Survivors include her husband of 33 years, Stephen E. Phinney of Woodbridge; three children, Sara Phinney Kelley of State College, Pa., Jennifer Phinney Bell of Parker, Colo., and Robert Stephen Phinney of Asheville, N.C.; her mother, Elizabeth Walsh of Gwynedd, Pa.; two sisters; and two grandchildren.