Friday, April 17, 2026
Obituaries
Ralph "Rusty" Allen
Ralph (Rusty) Allen, 79, of Whitingham, VT, died on March 5 at Albany Medical Center.
Rusty was born in Portland, ME to Ralph and Helen Allen. While residing in Agawam MA, Rusty worked for 18 years at Pratt and Whitney in Hartford, CT. He loved his work as a quality control consultant for...
Tim Blumenthal
Tim Blumenthal, a pioneering voice in American cycling journalism, broadcasting, and advocacy, died on March 30, after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 70.
Tim was born June 22, 1955, in New York, NY, to John Irving Blumenthal and Mary Newkirk Blumenthal. He grew up in Rye, NY, and attended...
Priscilla Tower
Priscilla Irene (Tower) Thayer, 94, of Readsboro, VT, died on March 25 at North Adams Regional Hospital.
She was born in North Adams on July 9, 1931, a daughter of the late Lewis and Ellen (Schmall) Tower. She grew up in Monroe and moved to South Readsboro, VT in 1950. She attended elementary...
Donald Clark Gehring Jr. died on March 31 at the age of 86, with his wife of 57 years by his side. Known to many as Don or Clark, he was born on April 17, 1939, to Ruth Tolpin Gehring and Donald Clark Gehring Sr. He spent his early years on a farm in Coventry, CT. After his father’s death when he...
Manuela Kravarik
Manuela Kravarik, 97, died on March 20. She was born in Bucharest, Romania on August 14, 1928. She survived World War II and immigrated to New York city in 1949 via a circuitous route, at the behest of her father and mother. She moved to Dallas, TX, where Manuela made friends in the newly formed...
Kevin Wright
WILMINGTON—Kevin Dana Wright, 68, died at his home on Saturday, February 28.
After graduating from Cumberland High School, Kevin drove across country and eventually settled in Newport, RI as a chef. He recently retired after over three decades in nursing, a career he continued with dedication,...
Molly Ward Dye
Much loved mother, wife, grandmother, sister, and aunt, Molly W. Dye departed at the front end of a raging nor’easter on February 22. A resident of her beloved southern Vermont, she and her husband of 70-plus years, David R. Dye, lived in Whitingham for the past 28 years.
Molly was born July 16,...
Mark Anthony Lovergine
Mark Anthony Lovergine, 67, died on February 9 at home, surrounded by family. Mark was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Grace Lovergine, and beloved child Amy Lovergine. He is survived by his wife, Parsha Lovergine, of Jamaica, and his five loving children: Angela, of Winhall; Wyette, of...
Douglas Ferguson Rozell
Douglas Ferguson Rozell, 78, died on January 27. Doug was always a builder. When he was 6, the family went to live in Addis Ababa while his father, a Federal Reserve Bank executive, served for two years as Governor of the State Bank of Ethiopia. Doug organized other young people to build “forts” of...
Audrey Elaine (Cutting) Wells, 64, born on September 9, 1961, in Bennington, VT, died on February 3, after a sudden illness, with her devoted husband by her side. She grew up in the close‑knit community of Wilmington, VT, and was a 1979 graduate of Wilmington High School. For the past 25 years,...
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