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Frances Marie Bartolotta
Apr 25, 2018
"A faithful friend is the medium of life." Frances Marie (Zito) Bartolotta, beloved wife of 33 years to the late Salvatore Bartolotta, passed away Wednesday, April 25, 2018. She was born January 30, 1922 to Giulia (Pugliese) and Vito M. Zito of Manchester and remained a lifelong resident of this town. After graduating from Manchester High School in 1940, she...
Luis Alberto Calderon
Apr 23, 2018
Luis A Calderon, 61 of Manchester, CT passed away after battling cancer on Monday April 23rd at St. Francis Hospital. He was born in Lima, Peru on March 12, 1957. the son of Dominga and the late Jorge Calderon. He migrated to the U.S. when He was 3 years old to Hartford CT. After graduating Bloomfield High school in 1975...
Tanya R. James Koxarakis
Apr 7, 2018
Tanya R. James, 29, was called home to be in the arms of the Lord on April 7th, 2018.Tanya was born May 23rd,1988 in Hartford, CT, daughter of Michael and Laurie (Gagnon) James, of Broad Brook, CT. Anyone who knew Tanya knew how much she loved Jesus, family, coffee, cats, music, and making people laugh. Tanya treasured the time she...
Irene B Stephens
Mar 27, 2018
Irene B. (Brown) Stephens, 102, of Manchester, CT passed away Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at her home. Irene was born in 1915 in Mansfield, CT and was the daughter of the late Frank and Rose (Psota) Brown. Irene was the family matriarch. Her mother died when Irene was twelve and she helped her father raise her three brothers Leo, Stanley...
Karen Smith Beauregard
Mar 19, 2018
After a courageous battle with a series of debilitating illnesses, Karen (Smith) Beauregard of Manchester, loving wife of 57 years of George W. Beauregard passed away peacefully March 19th with her family at her side. She was born in Manchester September 23, 1940, daughter of the late S. Raymond and Gertrude (Knofla) Smith. Karen graduated from Manchester High School, Class...
Austin (Bud) A. Weiman, Jr.
Mar 18, 2018
Austin (Bud) A. Weiman, Jr., 71, of Rocky Mount, NC formerly of Manchester and Vernon, CT, passed away on March 18, 2018. He was the son of Austin A. Weiman, Sr. and Edna (Cordy) Weiman. He graduated from Manchester High School and served in the U.S. Army, and was a Vietnam Veteran. Bud was an optician in the Hartford area...
Kathleen M. Dargan
Mar 8, 2018
Kathleen Mae Dargan, age 75 of Manchester, CT, passed away on March 8, 2018 at her home in Manchester, CT. She was born March 13, 1942 in Tacoma, WA, to Donald Thomas Dargan and Alice Harriet (Lichty) Dargan. Kat had an adventurous and independent spirit. Traveling, reading, gardening and spending time with her four grandchildren is what she loved most....
Grace Mclaren
Feb 26, 2018
Grace Geraldine McLaren, 94, passed away in Willimantic, CT on February 26, 2018. Grace was born in Ridgewood New York in 1923. She married John McLaren in 1944 who later became totally disabled. Grace took devoted care of John for twenty-five years until his death in 1974. Grace was a warm, hospitable person who will be missed by family and...
Jason M. Doran
Feb 19, 2018
Jason Michael Doran, son of Michael Doran and Nancy Lynn Morin, passed into the arms of our Lord on February 19, 2018. He was born on October 25, 1977 in Manchester, Connecticut. He has lived in Florida, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. From the start, Jason was full of love of life. From teaching his siblings how to love life as...
Louise Jane Smith
Jan 29, 2018
Louise Jane (Wilson) Smith, 92 of Bolton, CT, beloved wife of the late Dale Smith, passed away on Monday, January 29, 2018 at her home. She was born in Manchester, CT on November 20, 1925, daughter of William Henry Wilson and Anna (Cholkowski) Wilson. Louise lived in Manchester throughout her youth and graduated from Manchester High School. She retired after...
Majorie Knight
Jan 22, 2018
Marjorie (Holt) Knight, 96, of Manchester, beloved wife of the late Robert C. Knight Sr. died peacefully in her sleep on Monday, January 22, 2018. She was born on January 20, 1922 in Attleboro, MA daughter of the late Joseph S. Holt Sr. and Harriet (Quimby) Holt. Marjorie was a longtime member of South United Methodist Church in Manchester where...
Keovilay Khamthanh
Dec 28, 2017
Khamthanh Keovilay 81, of East Hartford, passed away peacefully in her home on Thursday December 28, 2017. Khamthanh will now be joining her husband Khamsao and 2 children Phoukham and Vitchphan in heaven. She was born in Vientiane, Laos on February 1, 1936 to Mr. Phanh and Ms. Thet. She resided in Manchester from 1979 until 2015. Khamthanh loved her...
Graciela Orduz
Nov 26, 2017
Graciela "Grace" Orduz Torrado, 81, longtime resident of Manchester, CT, died at Rockville General Hospital on Sunday, November 26, 2017. Â She was the daughter of the late Jose and Leticia Torrado, and was predeceased by her loving husband Mario Hugo Orduz. Grace was born in Colombia, and immigrated to the United States from Venezuela when she was 20 years old...
Pearl Caroline Wiebe
Nov 25, 2017
Pearl (Lehnes) Wiebe, age 92, of Middletown, CT, answered God's call on November 25, 2017, at Water's Edge, in Middletown. She was born on June 6, 1925 in Lyndhurst, NJ, to loving Christian parents, the late Raymond Lehnes (WWI Army veteran) and Margaret McEwan (Graham) Lehnes. Pearl was educated in the Lyndhurst, NJ school system, where she was a graduate...
Frank S. Young
Nov 23, 2017
Frank Sean Young, 77, passed away unexpectedly on Thanksgiving day at his home in Palm Springs, CA. He was born on October 1,1940, the son of the late Frank & Mary (Gula) Young. Sean graduated from Manchester High School, Class of 1958. He was a graduate of the University of Hartford and Hartford Art School where he received his BS...
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