Joseph Stevens
Feb 7, 2014
Joseph C. Stevens, a prominent experimental psychologist and longtime member of the Yale University faculty, died unexpectedly but peacefully on February 7, 2014, at his home in New Haven, CT. He was 84. Dr. Stevens was widely known for his work investigating human sensory perception using principles of psychophysics. Psychophysics refers to methods for quantifying what a person can...
Braxton Mckee
Feb 3, 2014
Braxton McKee, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale Medical School was born in Winchester, VA in 1933. He graduated from Mersersberg Academy in Pennsylvania and went on to college at the University of Virginia. Following college, he graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School in 1959. After his medical internship at New York Hospital, he trained as...
Mary Jo Mcdonald
Jan 27, 2014
Mary Jo McDonald, 86 of Madison died January 27, 2014. She was the wife of the late Robert E. McDonald who died in 2003. Born October 31, 1927 to Max S. and Lorraine Littlefield in Bartlesville, OK, she grew up in Tulsa and during her school days she studied dancing for many years. She graduated from Tulsa Central High...
Anna Deming
Jan 26, 2014
Anna Huntington Deming, 91, died January 26, 2014. Predeceased by her brother George, son Hunt and husband John, she is survived by her brother Charles, sons John (friend Christine) and George, and daughter-in-law, Katharine with granddaughters Rachel, Kate and Anna, and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Anna was educated at Foote School and Prospect Hill in New Haven and...
Tyler Weatherston Otto
Jan 24, 2014
Tyler Weatherston Otto 28 of Guilford, passed away suddenly on January 24th. Tyler leaves behind his beloved parents Darlene Hacku Otto and John Otto and his brother Jonathan all of Guilford. Tyler was deeply loved by many cousins, aunts, uncles and a large circle of very close friends. Tyler was a caring person who would drop whatever he was...
Helen Renken
Jan 19, 2014
Helen was born in Houston, Texas on June 28, 1929. The first born child of the late Frederick and Edna Aaron, she entered into eternal peace at the CT Hospice in Branford on January 19. Helen is survived by her beloved husband Fred Renken, son Michael Brenneis (Cathy Ann), daughter Cathy Connor Goldman (Rob), her brother P. Chet Aaron...
Dolores Muolo
Jan 15, 2014
Dolores (Dolly) Levi Muolo passed peacefully at CT Hospice on January 15 surrounded by her loving family. She was born October 17, 1931 in New Haven and was the widow of Peter B. Muolo and daughter of the late Florence Pascale and Louis Levi. Dolores was a lifelong resident of New Haven, a graduate of Hillhouse High School and...
Margaret Gowans
Jan 15, 2014
NORTH BRANFORD, CT--Margaret "Bunkie" Curtis Gowans, 94, formerly of Marblehead, MA, died peacefully on January 15, 2014 in her home at Evergreen Woods, North Branford, CT.
Bunkie was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 30, 1919, the daughter of John W. M. Bunker and Helen Crawshaw Bunker. After attending Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, she graduated from...
Cherry Swords
Jan 7, 2014
Cherry Shaw Swords, 96, died peacefully in her sleep at hospice in
Branford, CT, on January 7, 2014. Born in Rye, NY, on July 15, 1917,
to Guthrie and Virginia Thorne Shaw, she graduated from the Ethel
Walker School and Sarah Lawrence College. During World War II, she was
a volunteer...
Lois Pierson
Jan 6, 2014
Pierson, Lois
Lois Virginia Pierson, 84, of Hamden died January 6, 2014. She was born in New Haven April 7, 1929 daughter of the late G. Rudolph and Myrtle Howe Pierson. She worked 42 years at the CT Agricultural Experiment Station with 33 years as secretary to the director. She retired in 1989. She was a member...
Rose Trowbridge
Jan 6, 2014
Rose Trowbridge, age 89 formerly of Woodbridge, CT, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2014 at Hamden Health Care. Born in Waterbury, Rose was the daughter of the late Ethel and William Haines and widow of Ernest E. Trowbridge. Rose is survived by her son Ernest (Donna) Trowbridge, her daughter Rose (Steven) Adams, grandchildren Joseph and Shannon Trowbridge, Jane...
Edward James Brennan
Dec 31, 2013
Edward James Brennan III, (lovingly known as Jim to family and close friends) age 63, of Essex died on December 31, 2013 while wintering on his boat in Charleston, SC. He was born July 10, 1950 in New Haven to Edward J. Brennan Jr. and Jane Von Beren Brennan, both of whom predeceased him. Mr. Brennan leaves a sister,...
Janet Benson
Jan 10, 2012
Janet Wiley Benson, formerly of West Hartford and Avon, and the widow of Russell F. Benson who predeceased her in 2004, passed away on January 10th, 2021 in Wallingford, CT.
Born in Albany, NY in 1928, Janet was the only child of J. Allen and Vera (Goodsell) Wiley. She was a graduate of the Milne School in...
Dorothy Grave
Jul 4, 1926
Dorothy Lucienne Solakian Grave passed away peacefully at her home on January 13, 2018. She was born in Washington D.C. the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Haig Solakian of Pine Orchard. Nama, as she was fondly called, was an avid reader and loved to garden. She had a great sense of humor, and a quick wit. She...
