Marjorie Blake, 94, of Orleans died on December 15, 2011, at her home in Orleans surrounded by her loving family.
She was born December 4, 1917, in Bedford, New Hampshire, a daughter of Glyde and Helena (Spencer) Fox. On September 16, 1939, she married Harley Blake who predeceased her in 1994.
She was a long time member of the Orleans Federated Church and honorary member of the book and thimble club of Orleans. Ms. Blake enjoyed cooking and caring for her family.
She is survived by her five children: Eleanor Willis and her husband, Stanley, of Orleans, Wayne Blake and his soul mate, Carol Temple, of Newport Center, Betty Racine and her husband, Paul, of Orleans, Linda Chadburn and her husband, Gordon, of Irasburg, and Harry Blake of Orleans; her grandsons: Randy Blake, Derick Blake and his wife, Ann Marie, Brad Blake and his wife, Sue, Ryan Racine and his wife, Joan, Jason Racine and his wife, Melissa, Jeremy and Jeff Blake, and Kyle Chadburn and his wife, Sarah; her 13 great-grandchildren, her two great-great-grandchildren; her cousins: Marion Aldrich of Brownington and Harold Fox of Cornish, New Hampshire; and a daughter-in-law, Sharon Blake of Derby. She was predeceased by a daughter-in-law, Monica Blake; two sisters: Priscilla LaCivita and Pauline Fox; and by a nephew, Francis LaCivita.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 21, at 1:30 p.m. at the Orleans Federated Church with the Reverend Rick Menard officiating. Spring interment will be held at the Pleasantview Cemetery in Orleans.
Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to the Orleans Federated Church, School Street, Orleans, Vermont 05860; or to the Orleans Senior Meal Site, care of Irene Lanoue, 23 Maple Street, Orleans, Vermont 05860.
Robert D. “Bob” Burke, 73, of Glover and Winter Haven, Florida, died on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Auburndale, Florida, with his wife Brenda by his side, following a brief illness.
He was born January 18, 1938, in St. Johnsbury, the only child of Albert and Lois (Sheldon) Burke.
Mr. Burke graduated from the St. Johnsbury Trade School as Valedictorian in 1956. He then began a 48-year career with the Sears & Roebuck Co. in St. Johnsbury where he started in the service station and then transferred into the store as a salesman. He was known as “Mr. Sears.”
Mr. Burke was definitely a New Englander and a fan of the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots, the Boston Celtics, and NASCAR racing. He spent many good years at his summer home on Shadow Lake in Glover where he enjoyed fishing and riding on his pontoon boat with his family and many friends. Every summer he looked forward to a get-together with his former co-workers from Sears. He had spent the last 7 years wintering in Winter Haven with Brenda enjoying the warmer climate and people there. He was known as the fix-it man and did any kind of work for anyone in need. He will be missed by many including those in Florida.
Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Brenda (Emery) Burke of Glover and Winter Haven; their two children: Robyn Baillargeon of St. Johnsbury, and David Burke and his wife, Judy, of Sheffield; three grandchildren: Jamie Warriner and her husband, James, of Center Barnstead, New Hampshire, Daniel Baillargeon and his wife, Meredith, of Lyndonville, and Christopher Burke of Sheffield; and two great-grandchildren: Abbygail Warriner and Lane Baillargeon. He was predeceased by his parents.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 21, at 3 p.m. at the Guibord Funeral Home in Lyndonville with Mr. John Sleeper officiating. Spring burial will be in Westlook Cemetery in Glover.
Donations made in his memory may be directed to the Good Shepherd Hospice House, 105 Arneson Avenue, Auburndale, Florida 33823.
Private online condolences may be shared with the family at www.guibordfh.com.
Glendon M. Goodwin
Glendon M. Goodwin, 89, of Newport died suddenly on December 12, 2011, in Newport.
He was born August 31, 1922, in Craftsbury, a son of Fred and Delia (Wells) Goodwin. On June 17, 1952, he married Ardys Smith who survives him.
He was an inspector for Agri-Mark. He held memberships with the Benevolent Order of the Elks #2155 and the Old Timers baseball team. He was a fan of the New York Yankees and he enjoyed ice fishing and going to hunting camp with his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Ardys Goodwin, of Newport; by his children: Karleen Lanoue of Barton, Kerry Goodwin and his wife, Carmen, of San Diego, California, Karen Goodwin of Newport, Kim Chamberlin and her husband, Ronald, of Albany, and Karl Goodwin of Newport; by his grandchildren: Andre Lanoue and his friend, Jessica, Amy Braun and her husband, Bill, Donnie Goodwin and his wife, Karen, Arthur Hull and his wife, Cindy, Nanette Duckless, Ryane Davis and partner, Tonya Davis, Thomas, Shane, and Cameren Goodwin; by his twelve great-grandchildren; by a brother, Philip Goodwin of Albany; and by several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his sister Geraldine Dwyer; by his brother Gayland Goodwin; by his grandson Billy Hull; and by his first wife Pearlene Mackres.
A graveside service will be held at a later date in the spring at the Albany Cemetery.
Should friends desire, contributions in his memory may be made to the Newport Health Care Center, 148 Prouty Drive, Newport, Vermont 05855.
Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com.
Paul E. “Cubby” Goulet
Paul E. “Cubby” Goulet, 84, of Island Pond died on December 13, 2011, in Newport, with family and friends at his side.
He was born August 17, 1927, in Rochester, New Hampshire, a son of Joseph and Ellen (Daley) Goulet. He graduated from Brighton High School in Island Pond and attended one year at the University of Vermont. Mr. Goulet was a dispatcher for the Canadian National Railroad in Gorham, New Hampshire. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the American Legion Brighton Post #80 and the Orleans Country Club where he was club champion for thirteen years. He was also a good basketball player, excellent golfer, and baseball player.
He is survived by his brother John Goulet of Canton, Michigan; six nieces and nephews and their spouses; ten grandnieces and -nephews; and two great-grandnieces and -nephews. He was predeceased by a brother, Joseph Goulet.
A graveside service will be held in the spring at the Lakeside Cemetery in Island Pond, with full military honors.
Should friends desire, contributions in his memory may be made to the Newport Health Care Center, 148 Prouty Drive, Newport, Vermont 05855. Online condolences may be sent to the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com.
Beverly Ann (Kaiser) Miller
Beverly Ann (Kaiser) Miller, 60, of Coventry and formerly of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, where she lived most of her life, died on December 15, 2011, in Newport.
She was born on October 23, 1951, in Brattleboro, a daughter of Joseph Howard and Alice Zada (Walker) Kaiser. Mrs. Miller graduated from Brattleboro High School in the Class of 1969.
On October 12, 1996, she married Charles Q. Miller who survives her.
She was a bookkeeper in the Keene, New Hampshire area and was a certified nurse’s aide. She was a life member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post #1034 in Brattleboro, American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Post #23 in Orleans, and the Fraternal of Eagles Ladies Auxiliary Aerie #4329 in Newport.
Mrs. Miller is survived by her husband Charles Miller of Coventry; a brother, Peter M. Kaiser of Farmington, New Hampshire; and a sister, Kathleen N. Foote of Rockwood, Maine. She was predeceased by her parents Joseph and Alice Kaiser; and a brother, Howard Walker Kaiser, who was killed in action in Vietnam.
Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to the North Country Hospital Oncology Department, 189 Prouty Drive, Newport, Vermont 05855. Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com.
Kathleen Mary Rediker
Kathleen Mary Rediker, 68, died on Thursday, December 15, 2011, alone in her house at Mad Brook, a loosely knit collective in East Charleston where she had been living since its formation in the late sixties.
Ms. Rediker was born to Frederick and Elizabeth (Freeman) Rediker and attended King Jr. High in Portland, Maine.
In poor health for the last couple of years, her death was discovered by the people she counted as family, who looked in on her daily, and with whom she played Chinese checkers, a game she played avidly and often with wicked delight.
Among her friends she was known as a woman who wore many hats. From Kate the Red to Plant Lady, she had a steely inner strength. She was the first woman at Mad Brook to build her own house and tour the back roads in one of Toyota’s early four-wheel drives that looked like a Jeep. In the late seventies, she went back to college where she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1981 from Lyndon State College.
In the papers left behind she listed the areas that she thought best defined her occupation: art, craft, education, human service, and herbalist-gardener. She took special pride in the herbs she grew, and toward the end of her life published a book, Northern Light Plants, a description of herbs and their medicinal uses. For years she was part of the crew that publishes the Green Mountain Trading Post.
Born in Presque Isle, Maine, Ms. Rediker often wore wide-brim hats that could make her appear like a transplanted Southerner. She wore the hats to protect her skin from the sun and she often dressed in outfits that would have looked familiar on the kind of no-nonsense dolls she might have played with as a kid. Whether summer or winter, she had a look of dressing in layers.
Quiet with a voice that rose not much higher than a whisper, Ms. Rediker possessed a laugh that was nobody’s business. A laugh that started off as a cackle, it came rolling out of her deep like from behind a barn door; it came on and on and on, wave after wave until, rising like an ocean swell breaking on the wharves in Portland, it affected everyone nearby, causing some to laugh deliriously, even if they didn’t have a clue. Making mirth was one of her exceptional charms.
“I keep trying to imagine the Madbrook mountainside without Kate’s laughter, low like Bessie Smith’s voice, her eye crinkling in ‘we understand each other’ way,” wrote an old friend from afar upon learning of her death.
Tiny, tough, independent Ms. Rediker who came to a rugged corner in Vermont with a degree in art education from the University of Hartford in Connecticut, fashioned a life of her own and endured. In instructions written in a neat hand and in a manner of someone who raised herbs in a ten-week garden, she advised her friends what to do with the “residue of my remains.”
She asked that her ashes be buried in her garden under the Hawthorne tree, and she was particular in advising how and when they were to be buried. To the last, she was all about taking care of business in the way someone might who was raised in Maine and lived out her life frugally in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
She leaves behind three sisters: Helen Rediker of South Portland, Maine, Ann Dillon of Portland, and Evelyn Kenny, address unknown. Her father died in 1978; her mother, 1987. She also lost two brothers: Freeman Rediker and Franklyn Rediker.
Ms. Rediker left her house in the hands of Mad Brook Farm. As instructed, her ashes will be buried in the spring.
Sergeant Scott Fraser West
Sergeant Scott Fraser West, 53, of Albany died unexpectedly on December 10, 2011, at his home.
He was a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army and the Vermont National Guard, having served in Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2005.
He was a graduate of Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York.
He is survived by a son, Evan Hollis West of Johnson; his brother Greg West of Albany; his sister Victoria and her husband, Tony Bueti, of Mount Kisco, New York and Albany; his sister Christina W. Moir of Mapleton, Maine; his niece Kathleen Grow; and his nephews: John and Joe Moir. He was predeceased by his parents, John and Christina Buchanan West, formerly of Mount Kisco, New York, and Craftsbury Common.
There will be no service at this time. The family is planning a graveside military service to be held at the Vermont Veterans Cemetery in Randolph and a family service at the family lot at the East Craftsbury Cemetery, both in the spring.
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