Obituaries

Paul F. Biondo

Paul F. Biondo

Aug 25, 2010

Waltham- Mr. Paul F. Biondo, of Waltham, died Wednesday August 25, 2010 at the Newton-Wellesley Alzheimer’s Center in Wellesley. He was 90. Born in Waltham on January 22, 1920 he was a son of the late Vincenzo and Vincenza (Moribito) Biondo, and had been a lifelong resident of Waltham. Paul worked as a salesman for P.T. Brake Lining Company in...

Gunars 'Gus' Muizulis

Gunars 'Gus' Muizulis

Aug 22, 2010

Waltham - Mr. Gunars ‘Gus’ Muizulis, of Waltham, died unexpectedly, Sunday, August 22, 2010 in Newton – Wellesley Hospital after being stricken ill at home. He was 76. Gunars, lovingly known as ‘Gus’, was born May 31, 1934 in Krimulda, Latvia, a son of the late Janis A. and Zelma (Tiltins) Muizulis. At the age of 8 his parents took...

Ivair Madrona

Ivair Madrona

Aug 21, 2010

Waltham - Mr. Ivair Madrona Sr., of Waltham, formerly of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, died Saturday, August 21, 2010 in his home after an illness. He was 68. Ivair was born July 2, 1942 in Tarumirim, Minas Gerais, Brazil a son of the late Pedro Madrona da Silveira and Laurentina Silveira de Jesus. He was raised in Brazil and moved...

Margaret A. Halstead

Margaret A. Halstead

Aug 20, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Margaret A. (Scanlon) Halstead, of Waltham, died August 20, 2010 at Wingate of Needham. She was 95.Margaret was born in Waltham on July 29, 1915, a daughter of the late John and Catherine (Skahill) Scanlon and had been a lifelong resident. She was an auxiliary member of the PFC John M. Sullivan, USMC VFW Post #10334 in...

Alice L. (Morrow) Collura

Alice L. (Morrow) Collura

Aug 20, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Alice L. (Morrow) Collura, of Waltham, died Friday, August 20, 2010 in the Langdon Place Nursing Home in Nashua, New Hampshire. She was 79. Alice was born in Waltham on January 23, 1931, a daughter of the late William A. and Effie M. (Starkey) Morrow and had been a lifelong resident. She was a graduate of Waltham...

Mary E. 'Peggy' Connaughton

Mary E. 'Peggy' Connaughton

Aug 19, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Mary E. ‘Peggy’ (Tierney) Connaughton, of Waltham, died Thursday, August 19, 2010 in Saint Patrick's Manor in Framingham. She was 86.Peggy was born on September 12, 1923 in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, a daughter of the late Joseph and Mary (Flaherty) Tierney. She worked as a hairdresser for many years at Mademoiselle’s Salon on Main Street in...

Richard T. 'Rocky' O'Reilly

Richard T. 'Rocky' O'Reilly

Aug 19, 2010

Waltham – Mr. Richard T. ‘Rocky’ O’Reilly, of Waltham, died Thursday, August 19, 2010 at Newton Healthcare Center. He was 74.Rocky was born in Waltham on March 16, 1936, a son of the late Langdon and Katherine (Hennessey) O’Reilly, and had been a lifelong resident. He worked for years at Grover Cronin’s Department Store on Moody Street in Waltham and...

Ida M. Welch

Ida M. Welch

Aug 19, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Ida M. (Casella) Welch, of Waltham, died Thursday, August 19, 2010 at her home. She was 60.Ida was born in Waltham on October 31, 1949, a daughter of the late Luigi and Carmella Casella and had been a lifelong resident. She was a 1968 graduate of Waltham High School.Ida had worked for the past thirty-three years for...

Mary Jane DiStasio

Mary Jane DiStasio

Aug 19, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Mary Jane (Hayward) DiStasio, of Waltham, died Thursday, August 19, 2010 in the Dorothy Frances Home in Waltham. She was 80. Mary Jane was born in Milton on September 5, 1929 a daughter of the late Edward C. and Margaret I. (Maynard) Hayward and had been a Waltham resident since 1955. She was a graduate of Oliver...

Warren W. Cooke

Warren W. Cooke

Aug 17, 2010

Waltham – Mr. Warren W. Cooke, of Waltham, died Tuesday August 17, 2010 at the Walden Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Concord. He was 96.Warren was born on December 25, 1913 in Wakefield, a son of the late Charles W. and Nora (Crowley) Cooke. He was a graduate of Wakefield High School and Wentworth Institute in Boston. He met his...

Diane M. Skarbek

Diane M. Skarbek

Aug 17, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Diane M. (Gaudet) Skarbek, of Waltham, died Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge. She was 56.Diane was born in Waltham on February 13, 1954 and had been a lifelong resident. She was a graduate of Waltham High School and Salem State College. Diane had worked as a project secretary for the Parexell Company in...

Concordia D. 'Connie' Vernacchio

Concordia D. 'Connie' Vernacchio

Aug 16, 2010

Belmont - Mrs. Concordia D. ‘Connie’ (Ferrara) Vernacchio, of Belmont, died August 16, 2010 at Meadow Green Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, she was 96.Born on May 9, 1914 in Boston, a daughter of the late Enrico and Rose (Colangelo) Ferrara, Connie moved from East Boston to Belmont in 1959 and had worked as an independent seamstress.She leaves her children Janice...

Virginia Delorey

Virginia Delorey

Aug 16, 2010

Manchester, NH - Mary Virginia (Gill) Delorey, a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, and a former long-time resident of Waltham, died August 16, 2010, after a brief illness. She was born in Waltham on August 4, 1917, a daughter of the late Robert Emmett Gill and Ann L. (MacGowan) Gill. Her father was the fifth generation owner of the former...

Dorothy J. Wellcome

Dorothy J. Wellcome

Aug 15, 2010

Dorothy J. Wellcome (Lewis), a lifelong resident of Waltham, died peacefully Sunday, August 15, 2010 with her devoted daughter and primary caretaker, Virginia, and her immediate family at her side at her home in Wakefield due to complications of Parkinson’s Disease and Hydrocephalus. She was 81.Dorothy was a proud descendant of Sir Henry Wellcome of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and London,...

Phyllis G. 'Ginny' Quirk

Phyllis G. 'Ginny' Quirk

Aug 14, 2010

Brandon, Florida – Mrs. Phyllis G. ‘Ginny’ (McCray) Quirk, died Saturday, August 14, 2010 at Hawthorne Village in Brandon, Florida at the age of 89 years and 11 months and after a long illness.Born in Pierce, West Virginia, a daughter of the late James and Alpha (Wagoner) McCray, Phyllis moved to Waltham in her early teens and continued to live...

Catherine T. 'Kaye' Moffitt

Catherine T. 'Kaye' Moffitt

Aug 8, 2010

Lexington – Miss Catherine T. ‘Kaye’ Moffitt, of Lexington, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 8th 2010 at Lahey Clinic in Burlington after a brief illness. She was 82.Kaye was born on April 13, 1928, the youngest of the four children of the late Joseph and Mary Anne (Dolan) Moffitt and she enjoyed many happy years on Brook Street, Brighton...

Joan M. Kershner

Joan M. Kershner

Aug 7, 2010

Waltham – Mrs. Joan M. (Healey) Kershner, of Waltham, died Saturday, August 7, 2010 in her home surrounded by her loving family. She was 79. Joan was born in Waltham on January 14, 1931 a daughter of the late John and Margaret (Kearny) Healey. She was a graduate of St. Mary’s High School and was a lifelong Waltham resident. She...

Edmund J. Walsh

Edmund J. Walsh

Aug 4, 2010

Newton Centre - Mr. Edmund J. Walsh, of Newton Centre, died Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in his home. He was 62.Ed was born in Newton on December 9, 1947, a son of Ruth (Cheney) Walsh of Framingham and the late John Walsh, and had been a lifelong resident. For the past twenty-five years Ed worked as a senior accountant for...

Frederick 'Ted' Heiser

Frederick 'Ted' Heiser

Aug 4, 2010

Waltham – Mr. Frederick ‘Ted’ Heiser, of Waltham, died Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at the E.N. Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford. He was 81.Ted was born in the Bronx, New York on August 2, 1929, a son of the late Henry and Edith (Kresse) Heiser, and had been a longtime Waltham resident. Until his retirement he worked as a...

Marie M. Rose

Marie M. Rose

Aug 4, 2010

Lexington – Mrs. Marie M. (Jones) Rose, of Lexington, died Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at Lahey Clinic in Burlington. She was 93.Marie was born in Everett on May 6, 1917, a daughter of the late Michael and Minnie (Hickey) Jones, and had been a Lexington resident for the past fifty-six years.The wife of the late Joseph G. Rose, she leaves...