Obituaries
Marion E. Besso
May 3, 2017
Mrs. Marion E. (Townsend) Besso, Of Waltham, died on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 in the Sawtelle Family Hospice House. She was 79.Born on November 25, 1937 in Waltham she was a daughter of the late Victor and Anna (Cusack) Townsend. She was a graduate of Waltham High School. Marion's life was always centered on her family. She loved dancing with...
Martha E. Maker
Apr 30, 2017
Mrs. Martha E. (Wentworth) Maker, of Waltham, died Sunday, April 30, 2017 in Wingate of Weston. She was 89.Martha was born in Waltham on December 1, 1927, a daughter of the late Chauncey and Edith (Kempton) Wentworth. She worked for the Sullivan and Cogliano Employment Agency for several years.Martha was a lifelong resident and enjoyed keeping a tidy garden around...
James E. Anderson
Apr 30, 2017
Waltham – Mr. James E. Anderson, of Waltham, died Sunday, April 30, 2017 in the Rose Monahan Hospice Home in Worcester. He was 86.Jim was born in Eureka, California on February 24, 1931, a son of the late Harry and Jane (Carolan) Anderson. He was raised on a dairy farm in Ferndale, California and graduated from Ferndale High School with...
Charles P. McCarthy
Apr 30, 2017
Waltham – ON the fifteenth of February, 1948 twenty-three year old Charlie McCarthy, a native of Ballyisland, Skibbereen, County Cork stepped aboard the SS Washington docked at the Port of Cobh, on Ireland's southern coast. He was Passenger No. 5.What awaited him on the other side of the Atlantic were hopes and dreams mixed in with a fair amount of...
Josephine T. Wilson
Apr 25, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Josephine T. (Lewis) Wilson, of Waltham, died on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 70.Josephine was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 9, 1946, the daughter of the late James and Mary (Phillips) Lewis. She was raised and educated in Ireland and came to the U.S. as a young woman to work as...
Beverly R. Waite
Apr 25, 2017
Mrs. Beverly R. (LaForte) Waite, of Waltham, died Tuesday, April 25 2017 in Carney Hospital, Boston. She was 68.Beverly was born in Waltham on May 22, 1949, a daughter of the late Roy and Ann (Annunziata) LaForte, and had been a lifelong resident. After graduating from Waltham High School she attended Catherine Labouré School on Nursing at Carney Hospital and...
Mary H. Langton
Apr 25, 2017
Mary Hayes Langton, age 95, passed away peacefully on April 25, 2017 at home surrounded by her family. She was born December 9, 1921 in Waltham, Massachusetts; she was the seventh of nine children, to William A. and Emma Leary Hayes. She was a 1939 graduate of Saint Mary High School, Waltham. In 1944 she married Laurence Bragan Langton. Prior...
Karen M. (Shanley) Alosso
Apr 24, 2017
Waltham – Karen M. (Shanley) Alosso, of Waltham, formerly of Somerville, died at home on Monday, April 24, 2017. She was 54. It was a warm and sunny day in Boston on July 29, 1962 when Tom and Betty Shanley welcomed their new baby Karen into the world. Karen spent her early years in Watertown, but grew up in Waltham....
Nancy Bucknam
Apr 23, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Nancy (Galiazzo) Bucknam, of Waltham, died on Sunday, April 23, 2017 in Newton Wellesley Hospital. She was 74.Nancy was born in Maryland on May 19, 1942, a daughter of the late Joseph and Dorothy (Marshall) Galiazzo. She was raised and educated in Winchester and married Waltham native Herbert J. Bucknam on August 29, 1964. Before her retirement...
Orbin W. Raymond
Apr 23, 2017
Waltham – Mr. Orbin W. Raymond, of Waltham, died Sunday, April 23, 2017 at Watertown Health Care Center. He was . . . as he always liked to say . . . 93 years young.Orbin was born in Waltham on February 3, 1924, a son of the late William and Viola (Haines) Raymond, and had been a lifelong resident. He...
Vera V. Brown
Apr 21, 2017
Waltham – Vera V. Brown, of Waltham, died Friday, April 21, 2017 at her home. She was 94.Vera was born in Cambridge on January 9, 1923, a daughter of the late Samuel and Phyllis (Davis) Brown. She was a 1941 graduate of Cambridge High School and moved with her family to Waltham in 1944.Until her retirement she worked for forty-seven...
Mary Elizabeth Antonellis
Apr 20, 2017
Mary Elizabeth (Sheldon) Antonellis of Waltham and Wayland (formerly of Corning, NY and Battlecreek, MI) passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 20, 2017, at the age of 84. She and her late husband, Albert Antonellis had five children: John Antonellis and his wife Dora of Londonderry, NH, Stephen Antonellis and his wife Laurel Hortvet of Glastonbury, CT, Thomas Antonellis and...
Sheila A. (Dubie) White
Apr 20, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Sheila A. (Dubie) White, of Waltham, died Thursday, April 20, 2017 at home surrounded by her family. She was 73.Sheila was born in Waltham on November 5, 1943 and graduated from Waltham High School with the class of 1961. On October 2, 1965 she married Robert J. White in Saint Mary's Church on School Street and the...
Mary F. (Daly) Byrne
Apr 20, 2017
Waltham – Being a nurse means that you will see life begin and end . . . you will cry a lot . . . and you will laugh a lot. And you will never let your patients down.That was the life that Mary Byrne led. She was a nurse for fifty plus years and she was really good at...
Maria Stanton
Apr 17, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Maria Stanton, of Waltham, died on Monday, April 17th 2017 in Wingate of Weston. She was 89.Maria was born in Westbrook, Maine on March 2, 1928, a daughter of the late Sebastian and Leontine (Landry) Savoy and graduated from Waltham High School in 1946. She was a kind and giving person who always put her family first.She...
Camille M. Valenzano
Apr 14, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Camille M. (Sendziak) Valenzano, of Waltham, died peacefully on Friday, April 14, 2017 in Maristhill Nursing Home. She was 98 years old. Camille was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 7, 1918, a daughter of the late Stanislaus and Helen Margaret (Zaleski) Sendziak. Until her retirement she had worked as an office assistant at Honeywell.While roller...
Eleanore F. Tomusko
Apr 12, 2017
Waltham - Mrs. Eleanore F. Tomusko, of Waltham, died Wednesday, April 12, 2017 in Maristhill Nursing Home, Waltham. She was 97.Eleanore was born in Portland, Maine on June 9, 1919, a daughter of the late Francis and Sarah (Coyne) Rowe. She graduated from Portland High School in 1937 and worked as a manager at Woolworth's for over 13 years. On...
Anthony R. "Tony" Stefanelli
Apr 12, 2017
Waltham – Mr. Anthony R. "Tony" Stefanelli, of Waltham, died Wednesday, April 12, 2017 in Meadow Green Nursing Home, Waltham. He was 82.Tony was born in Somerville on November 27, 1934, a son of the late Joseph and Lena (Alcione) Stefanelli. In between the Korean and Vietnam Wars he served as a Morse code operator with the United States Army...
Paulette M. Fagan
Apr 11, 2017
Waltham – Mrs. Paulette M. (Lewis) (Doucette) Fagan, of Waltham, died Tuesday, April 11, 2017 in Wingate of Weston. She was 94.Paulette was born in Boston on May 28, 1922, a daughter of the late Harold and Suzanne (Lenoir) Lewis. She was raised in Waltham and graduated from Waltham High School. Until her retirement Paulette worked as an inspector for...
Richard P. Desrosiers
Apr 11, 2017
Waltham - Mr. Richard P. Desrosiers, of Waltham, died Tuesday, April 11, 2017 in the Golden Living Center of West Newton. He was 66.Richard was born in New Bedford on November 17, 1950, a son of Jean and Lucie (Galipeau) Desrosiers of Waltham. He was a 1969 graduate of Waltham Vocational High School and after that served for six years...
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