John F Pickett
Mar 2, 2015
Born May 25, 1937 Jack was taken from us suddenly on March 2, 2015. He was the devoted husband of Anne W. Pickett and loving father to Lynne (Pickett) Hopwood, Susan (Pickett) Kyhn, and Karen (Pickett) Sousa and fun-loving grandfather to Justin and Alicea Sousa, and Brendan and Hunter Kyhn. Jack was a student at Meriden High School and...
Mare Schwartz
Feb 28, 2015
Mare Schwartz, age 73, passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 28th in her home in Guilford, Connecticut, surrounded by family and loved ones. Born Enel-Mare Kann, on September 14th, 1941, to Ants Kann and Lydia Koern, in Tallinn, Estonia, Mare fled Estonia with her mother and younger brother, Ants, during WWII. Mare spent her childhood and early years in...
Grace Sloan
Feb 26, 2015
Grace Valentine Pouch Sloan, nee Grace V. Pentz, passed away peacefully on Thursday, February 26, 2015 at the age of 104 in Essex, CT, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Grace, the daughter of Robert and Grace Hollick Pentz, was born on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1911 and lived on Staten Island for much of her adult life. She...
Shirley Sutton Morrison
Feb 25, 2015
Shirley Sutton Morrison, 88, of Clinton, CT, died peacefully, surrounded by her family, on February 25, 2015. Shirley is predeceased by her husband, John Richard Morrison Jr., her brothers Strain (Tim) Sutton, William Warburton Sutton III, and her sisters Audrey Lee Sutton Hickson, and Katherine(Kay) Warburton Sutton. She leaves behind three children: Nancy Kay Morrison Farwell and her husband...
Leonard T Pecoraro
Feb 23, 2015
Leonard T. Pecoraro, 77, longtime resident of Guilford passed away after a long illness on February 23, 2015. Born in New Haven on April 9, 1937 he was predeceased by his parents Frank M. and Mary E. Curtin Pecoraro, a brother George F. Pecoraro, Sr. and a sister-in-law Gertrude Vincent Pecoraro. He is survived by his longtime companion Rebecca...
Constance Buswell Severance
Feb 14, 2015
Constance Buswell Severance, beloved wife of William Lincoln Severance, entered into rest on Feb. 14, 2015. She was born on Dec. 23, 1918 in Ansonia, CT to Albert H. and Emily I. Hart Buswell. After graduating Ansonia High School in 1936, she completed a business course at Stone Business College in New Haven, CT. She then joined the staff...
Robert J Sperry
Feb 12, 2015
Robert J. Sperry, a descendant of the founders of Guilford, died February 12, 2015 at the age of 93. In childhood, Bob spent summers at Indian Cove and often visited his grandparents at what ultimately became his home on Broad Street (1954-2015). He lovingly brought that antique home into the twentieth century, a thoughtful steward of both the house...
Elna Cianciolo
Feb 10, 2015
Elna G. Cianciolo of Guilford passed away peacefully surrounded by loving family members on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at the St. Raphael Campus of Yale New Haven Hospital. She was 94 years old. Born in New Haven, CT on November 1, 1920, Elna was the daughter of the late Frank and Francesca Arena Cianciolo. Elna moved to Guilford at...
Greydon C Freeman
Feb 6, 2015
Greydon Carl Freeman, 74, died peacefully at his home in Woodbridge on February 6, 2015. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire on February 22, 1940 to the late Greydon and Ethel Freeman, Grey was a member of the Hanover High School Class of 1958 and the Yale Class of 1962. After earning an honors degree in engineering, he was awarded...
Lucy Deephouse
Feb 4, 2015
Lucy Larcom Dayton Deephouse died February 4, 2015 In Madison, Connecticut. She was born on December 28, 1932, in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ward Winchell Dayton and Elizabeth Larcom Dayton. After moving from Newton to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Lucy then grew up in Winnetka, Illinois where she attended New Trier High School and North Shore Country Day School. She...
Frank Symcak
Feb 3, 2015
Frank Symcak of Hamden, CT, died on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Beloved father and grandfather. Devoted husband of the late Joan T. Symcak. He was a Navy veteran having served in the Pacific during World War II, businessman, and loving husband, father, and grandfather. He is survived by his daughter, Laura T. Symcak, and his granddaughter, Joanne E. Mikula,...
Catherine Schneider
Jan 22, 2015
Catherine Sherman Schneider, 103, died peacefully on Thursday evening, January 22, in Petersham MA, where she lived with daughter Sara Deponte and husband Fabio.
She is also survived by son John Schneider and wife Karen and daughter Susan Doty and husband James; grandchildren Andrew Schneider and wife Pamela, Christopher Schneider, Catherine Badger and husband Jamie, Nicole Deponte,...
Elizabeth Keeney Hill
Jan 19, 2015
Betty Hill of Hamden, a formerhigh schoolteacher and a longtime peace activist,died on January 19, 2015, Martin Luther King Day, at the age of 94.A coal miner's daughter,she wasbelieved to be one of the first girls from herareain western Pennsylvania to go to college, at Bluffton Universityin Ohio. Her family got help from Quaker and Mennonite missionaries in the...
Dorothy Cunningham
Jan 7, 2015
Dorothy Jeanne Cunningham, 94, of Wallingford, formerly of Bethany died January 7, 2015. She was the beloved wife of the late Frederic Earl Cunningham whom she married in 1941 in Bethany. She was the mother of Catherine Cole (Stephen) of Bethany, Dorothy Toni (Richard) of Tolland, MA, Nancy Cunningham of Wallingford, Elisabeth Granoff (Bruce) of North Haven and the...
Raymond W Rensis
Jan 6, 2015
Raymond Whipple Rensis (JR) passed away Tuesday, January 6, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Priscilla Krider Rensis of Madison; four children, Grant W. Rensis of Guilford; Todd V. Rensis of Northborough, MA; Cynthia R. Jones (Gordon) of Columbia, SC; Christine K. Rensis-Smith (Jeffrey) and grandson Lukas Smith of Delaware, OH, his brother, Robert B. Rensis (Jeanne) of...
Kermit Morrison
Jan 2, 2015
Rev. Kermit B. Morrison, who served the United Methodist Church for more than half a century, died on January 2, 2015, at The Mary Wade Home in New Haven, CT. He was 86.Kermit Blancher Morrison was born on Jan 17, 1928, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He was raised in Springfield, Vermont, in a large and loving family that included...
John Kanyock
Dec 15, 2014
John S. Kanyock, 80, of Madison, died unexpectedly at Yale-New Haven Hospital on December 15, 2014. He was the beloved husband of Jan Kanyock. The son of Sue (Lukash) and John Kanyock, John was born on April 3, 1934, in New York City, where he lived an adventurous youth. John joined the United States Air Force and served in...
Patricia Dockendorff
Dec 12, 2014
Patricia Bettcher Dockendorff of Orange, formerly Cheshire, passed away peacefully on December 12, 2014 at her home. Pat was born on June 28, 1922. She was the wife of the late John Edwin Dockendorff and daughter of the late Carl W. Bettcher and Natalie Gates Bettcher. Her brother Carl W. Bettcher, Jr. predeceased her. Pat graduated from The Day...
Crescence Dickerman Lyke
Dec 10, 2014
Crescence Dickerman Lyke, 93, of North Haven died December 10, 2014 at home surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late Thomas J. Lyke. She leaves three daughters, Joan P. Lyke (Al Acampora) of North Haven, Mary Ellen Alberino (Michael) of East Haven and Crescence Specht of Palm Bay, FL, nine grandchildren and seven great...
John Henry Gemmill
Dec 6, 2014
John Henry Gemmill of New Haven, CT, Southwest Harbor, and Franklin Maine, had a gentle death in the early hours of December 6, 2014 after a year of valiant, optimistic experiments fighting melanoma. Alongside was his wife Stacey McGlone Gemmill to whom he had been so very happily married since 1974. They had made their home in Guilford Connecticut...
