Roxie Lyle (Woodward) Beard
Roxie Lyle (Woodward) Beard, 90, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, died in Newport on Monday, January 17, 2011. She joins her husband, Burnell, of 66 years at the big fishing hole in the great beyond.
Mr. and Mrs. Beard knew all the greatest fishing places in Vermont and New Hampshire. Mr. Beard taught her how to fish when she became determined not to become a fisherman’s widow. She won a state championship for landing the largest lake trout. One of the couple’s greatest joys was when they visited their daughter in Island Pond where a tiny guest house accommodated their needs. They towed their old boat to all the nearby lakes and ponds and especially loved the sunsets over Echo Lake. Mrs. Beard also loved quilting and won a blue ribbon at the Orleans County Fair. She made many quilts, which she gave away, donated to nursing homes, or sold. She enjoyed going bottle digging with her sisters and liked playing cards, Scrabble, and doing jigsaw and crossword puzzles. She liked baking pies and making jelly. Putting up pickles and berrying were her highlights. She was an avid swimmer up to the last.
She leaves two sons: George Thomas Beard and wife, Louise, of South Sioux City, Nebraska, and his five grown children: Thomas Homer Beard, his wife, Milissa, and their five-year-old son Donald Thomas; also two stepchildren of Gaffney, South Carolina; a daughter, April Hudson, of Island Pond and Waid.
Mrs. Beard was born and brought up in Lebanon where she met her lifelong love, Burnell, a Vermonter. He predeceased her on December 7, 2004. Mrs. Beard moved to South Carolina and lived with her son Tommy for 14 months, enjoying visits to flea markets, car shows, and restaurants. For the last five years, Mrs. Beard has been in the loving care of her only daughter, April Hudson, and Waid in Island Pond.
She leaves April’s daughters, a devoted granddaughter, Tina Stevens, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Lisa Judd; great-granddaughter Mindy Tobin in Columbia, South Carolina; many nieces and nephews; and special friends Penny Palmer and Joyce Coull. She was predeceased by her parents, Thomas W. Woodward and Julia A. Bartlett; by brothers Harry of Tennessee and Leon from Lebanon and his band, Woody and the Ramblers. Sisters predeceasing her are Evelyn Parady, a Lebanon antique dealer; Dorothy Woodward, an area seamstress; Georgianna Nugent, a longtime sewer for Carters, and Elaine Quimby, antique bottle collector. She leaves brothers Robert Woodward, living on the family homestead, and Earl, a resident of Genesis Rest Home, both of Lebanon.
Donations, if desired, may be made to The Area Agency on Aging, 481 Summer Street St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819
A funeral was held at the Ricker Funeral Home and Crematory on January 21 with the Reverend Dale Edwards officiating. Burial followed in the Valley Cemetery.
Arrangements by Ricker Funeral Home and Crematory of Lebanon.
Jean L. Lague
Jean L. Lague, 82, formerly of South Glens Falls, New York, died on January 14, 2011, at Mary’s Haven in Saratoga Springs, New York.
She was born on March 10, 1928, in Barre, a daughter of the late Oscar and Aurore (Lalande) Laviolette.
Mrs. Lague graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Newport and the Bishop DeGosbriand Nursing School in Burlington. She married Raymond J. Lague on October 25, 1952, and they lived in Derby.
She was charge nurse at North Country Hospital from 1958 to 1971, until her husband predeceased her on April 16, 1971. She moved to Burlington with her son Robert and her daughter Lynn, where she continued as charge nurse at the Green Mountain Nursing Home. In 1980 she moved to Derby to care for her father while being a full case nurse for Home Health until his passing in 1987. She then moved to Saratoga Springs where she worked at the hospital as a surgical nurse and then the Glens Falls hospital as charge nurse. Later on, she was charge nurse at Our Lady of Hope Nursing Home in Latham, New York, and at Indian River Nursing Home in Granville, New York.
In addition to being a devoted and dedicated registered nurse, Mrs. Lague enjoyed oil painting, sewing and her trips to Florida. She volunteered at the Moreau Community Center and helped deliver meals-on-wheels.
Survivors include her four children: Joan Allyn Collins, Nancy White and her husband, Bill, of Florida, Robert Lague and his wife, Christian, of Georgia, and Lynn Graham and her husband, Jim, of South Glens Falls; her 11 grandchildren: Casey and Mikki, Christopher, Halsey and Kimberly, Lynn and Robert, Derek, Corey, Emily and Nicolas; several great-grandchildren; her sister Rita Cook of Connecticut; her brother Roger Laviolette of Alaska; and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Besides her parents and husband, Mrs. Lague was also predeceased by her brothers Roland and Fernand, and her sisters Hermine Fitzgerald, Alice Lorenz, and Mary Lovely.
At Mrs. Lague’s request, there will be no calling hours.
Graveside services will be conducted in the spring in Newport.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Mary’s Haven, 35 New Street, Saratoga Springs, New York 12866.
To send online condolences, please visit the funeral home website at www.kilmerfuneralhome.com.
George Ernest Lantagne
George Ernest Lantagne, 81, of Newport died on January 17, 2011, at his home surrounded by his loving family.
He was born February 22, 1929, in Newport, a son of Clarence and Mathilda (Huppa) Lantagne.
On March 24, 1950, he married Josephine Hart who survives him.
Mr. Lantagne was employed for many years at the former Pete Logan’s gas station in Newport and then by Reed’s Mobil where he retired.
His hobbies included tinkering around the house, fixing things, helping his brother with projects, and he loved the company of his dog Ace.
He is survived by his wife, Josephine Lantagne, of Newport; his son-in-law Harold Ford of Woodsville, New Hampshire; his two grandchildren: Anthony Ford and his wife, Holly, of Newport and Cassie Ford of Burlington; and by his great-granddaughter Kayla Ford; by his brother Clarence Lantagne and his wife, Dolores, of Newport; his sister Margaret Demers and her husband, John, of Worcester, Massachusetts; and by numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his daughter Beverly Ford; his two sisters, Jeannette Reed and Cecile Gunthier; and by his four brothers: Arestide, Roland, Oliver, and Joseph.
Services will be held at the convenience of the family. Arrangements by the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home.
Pearl L. Norway
Pearl L. Norway, 96, of Newport Center died on January 20, 2011, in Barton surrounded by her loving family.
She was born September 7, 1914, in Coventry, a daughter of Aylmer and Birdena (Combs) Lawson.
On September 12, 1932, she married Cecil Norway who predeceased her in 1988.
Mrs. Norway was a very active member of the Newport Center Methodist Church. She was an excellent cook and she crocheted many afghans for family members. She was a very smart, capable, feisty, kind woman with a great sense of humor.
Survivors include her two children: Patricia Walsh of Derby Line, and Robert Norway and his wife, Pete, of Barre; by five grandchildren: Martin Walsh and his wife, Elia, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, Heidi Walsh and her husband, John Young, of Glover, Heather Walsh of Derby, Scott Norway of Barre, and Jeffrey Norway and his fiancé, Phoebe Lyon, of Barre; by the following great-grandchildren: J.J. Raquel, Andrew, Charlie, and Samantha Norway, David Kennison and his fiancé, Heather Dobler, Brittany and Katie Walsh; by stepgrandchildren Emily and Sherwin Young; and by numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by five brothers and by her son-in-law Terrence Walsh.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, January 27, at the Newport Center Methodist Church with the Reverend Nathan Strong officiating. Friends may call at the church Thursday from 1 p.m. until the hour of the funeral. Spring interment will be in the Newport Center cemetery.
Should friends desire, contributions in her memory may be made to the Newport Center Methodist Church, Newport Center, Vermont 05857, or to the Maple Lane Activities Fund, 60 Maple Lane, Barton, Vermont 05822.
Online condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com.
James Christopher Walton
James Christopher Walton, 70, of South Albany died on January 15, 2011, after a long battle with cancer.
He was born on October 12, 1940, in Newton, Massachusetts, a son of James Clement and Alice McNamara Walton.
He graduated from St. Michael’s College in Colchester with a degree in American studies in 1963 and went to work for the Dow Corning Corporation in Midland, Michigan, where he held positions in marketing, sales, applications engineering and technical services. He left Dow Corning in 1965 to start his own firm, Chase-Walton Elastomers, Inc., in Hudson, Massachusetts. The company served the automobile and aircraft industry, including the NASA Space Shuttle and Hubble Space Telescope projects, with 40 percent of sales exported, primarily to European countries. In 1987, while still managing Chase-Walton, Mr. Walton created and served as president of the SF Medical Corporation, an FDA registered company providing research, development, and finished products for the hospital, medical device, biotech and pharmaceutical industries. Products were sold globally. In 1995, while serving as chairman of his two companies, Mr. Walton and his wife, Jackie, started a UK holding company, JSJ International. A year later, he purchased a Croydon, UK company, G&K Precision Engineering, that provided metal goods and tooling to the aerospace industry in Europe and the U.S.
Mr. Walton was president and owner of Chase-Walton Elastomers, Inc. and subsidiaries until his retirement in 2005. He was also a part-time police officer in Hudson and Sterling, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Hudson Rotary, and Assabet Valley Chamber of Commerce and received the Hudson and Maynard Area Chamber of Commerce Presidential Plaque for Outstanding Service and a citation from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Senate for 50 years of outstanding business in Hudson. He was also a member of the Craftsbury Village Improvement Society, and a Freemason of the Meridian Sun Lodge #20 of Craftsbury.
Mr. Lantagne and the love of his life, Jacqueline, wife of 49 years, enjoyed traveling extensively throughout the world. Mr. Lantagne was a music lover, had a strong desire to serve his community, and was an outdoor and history enthusiast.
He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline (Menard) Walton of South Albany; his son, attorney Christopher James Walton, and his wife, Linda Sattler Walton, and grandchildren Jacqueline Ann Walton, James Allan Walton, and Julia Bliss Walton; his daughter Michelle Walton Majewski, and her husband, attorney Gregory J. Majewski, and grandchildren Matthew Gregory Majewski, William James Majewski; and his aunt Rachel Kinne Farrar; and cherished friends Doug and Maria Downes.
He was an inspirational, compassionate, and extraordinary man and will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
A private family service will be held.
Donovan Seth Winston Warner
Donovan Seth Winston Warner, beloved infant son of Douglas Warner Jr. and Laura Briggs, died on January 20, 2011, in Newport.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his sisters: Latisha Briggs, Tanisha Hook, and Shakira Warner; by maternal grandparents Lawrence Briggs of Newark and Charlene Briggs of Lyndonville; and by paternal grandparents Douglas Warner Sr. of Lowell, Barbara Warner of Brownington, and Cecil Davison of Brownington.
Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 27, at the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Memorial Chapel at 37 Lake Road in Newport with Pastor George Lawson officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home that day from 4 p.m. until the hour of the funeral. Spring interment will be in the Brownington Center Cemetery.
Should friends desire, contributions in Donovan’s name may be sent to the March of Dimes, National Office, 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, New York 10605
Arrangements by the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home.
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