Obituaries

Apr 26, 2022

Joanne Elkins Ranzer, 74, passed away on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 at her home in Southbury, Connecticut, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Joanne was surrounded by her adoring family that loved her for her warmth and wisdom and her magnetic and empathetic personality that drew people to her.

Joanne is survived by David Michael Ranzer, the...

Apr 23, 2022

Andrew Joseph Cirincione, 85, of Middlebury, CT, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on April 23, 2022. Andrew was born in Queens, New York on June 1, 1936, son of the late Rosina and Joseph Andrew Cirincione. He grew up in the Bronx and attended Fordham Preparatory School graduating in 1954. Andrew went on to receive his Bachelor's...

Apr 21, 2022

Peter Kevin Gersky, a lifelong resident of Connecticut, passed away unexpectedly on April 21, 2022, at the age of 61. Loving and devoted husband to Sarah Cashman Gersky, dedicated father to Lindsay, Jessica and Will, and loving younger brother to Michael and Joe. Peter was born on September 20, 1960 to Judith Head and Allen Gersky, Sr. in Torrington,...

Apr 14, 2022

It is with great sadness we announce the death of Donald Paul Hassinger of Woodbury. He died from complications of lung cancer on Thursday, April 14, 2022 at St. Mary's Hospital, Waterbury, CT. He was born in Waterbury to Rudolph and Ada (Hallock) Hassinger.

Don grew up in Middlebury, CT., graduated from Crosby High School, Waterbury, CT...

Apr 13, 2022

Oxford- Henry J. Ward Jr., 96, of Oxford, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday April 13, 2022. He was the loving husband of 66 years to Loretta (Lyons) Ward.

Henry was born February 2, 1926 in New York, NY to the late Lillian (Stokes) and Henry Ward Sr. He graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School before...

Apr 12, 2022

Beatrice "Bea" Manzi, 93, passed away after a long illness on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at Gladeview Health Care Center in Old Saybrook with her daughter Louise Manzi-Gray by her side. Bea was preceded in death in 2016 by her husband of 69 years, Roland (Rolly) Manzi. Bea was born September 29, 1928, in Waterbury, the daughter of the...

Apr 11, 2022

Ronald Steven Stokes, 81, died unexpectedly from natural causes on April 11, 2022. He was born February 28, 1941, Waterbury, the son of Robert and Edna (Gyuriesko). Ron graduated through the Waterbury School System. Following graduation, he joined the National Guard. Ron was a mason and an award winning pool builder. He also was an EMT, a volunteer for...

Apr 8, 2022

Margaret "Marney" Mackay Nunemacher, age 85, passed away on Fri, Apr. 8 at the Motif memory care facility in Southbury, CT, after a long struggle with dementia.  She was preceded in death by her husband of 36 years, Lee A. Nunemacher, in 2016, but she kept on whistling right to the end.

Marney was born on June...

Apr 8, 2022

JOAN M. DOWNEY

Joan M. Downey, 82, of Oxford, CT passed away Friday, April 8, 2022, surrounded by her loving family. Joan was born in New York City, the second of six children to Hugh and Mary (O'Reilly) Kelly. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY and attended St. Anthony's School, The Mary Louis Academy and St. John's...

Apr 4, 2022

Isabel Ann Bassford, 87, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2022 in Torrington, CT. at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital.

Isabel was born and raised in Watertown, CT. She did her nurses training at Waterbury Hospital's School of Nursing and from there she went on to have a career as a Registered Nurse in many capacities. She did research...

Apr 3, 2022

Charles "Chuck" Clayton Squire, age 77, of Roxbury, CT passed away peacefully in the comfort of his home with his children by his side on April 3, 2022. Chuck was born February 20, 1945, son of the late Horace and Amelia Squire. He is survived by his daughter, Anne Barrett and her husband Andrew Barrett of Colorado Springs, CO,...

Apr 2, 2022

Bethlehem- Christopher W. O'Neill, 48, of Lakes Lane passed away April 2, 2022 at Candlewood Valley Health Center in New Milford. Chris was born June 10, 1973 in Waterbury to Michael and Marjorie Theresa (Bennett) O'Neill of Bethlehem. Chris enjoyed old Pontiacs and was most recently restoring a 1968 Firebird convertible. He passionately handled the public relations department and...

Apr 1, 2022

Arthur Louis Szepesi of Roxbury, Connecticut died peacefully surrounded by family at the Regional Hospice in Danbury on April 1, 2022, after a yearlong battle with glioblastoma. He was 79 years old and was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 20, 1943. He was a graduate of the Fairfield University Class of 1965, majoring in business administration. Following his...

Mar 31, 2022

Loving wife, mother and friend

Florence Mary Harrison Brown, 103, of Southbury, CT died in her home on March 31, 2022.  Wife of the late Gordon Ray Brown, she was a resident of Southbury for 30 years and Pleasantville, NY for 32 years. Florence was born in Detroit, MI on January 13, 1919, to Celia May and...

Mar 30, 2022

With heavy hearts and great sadness, we mourn the passing of Murray Haber, who died peacefully at home on March 30 holding hands with Susan, his loving wife of 41 years. He struggled for two years with the increasingly debilitating effects of cardiac amyloidosis. He was 97. His family will miss his smile, his warmth, his wisdom, and his...

Mar 23, 2022

Linda Elizabeth Coad entered into the nearer presence of God peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, on Wednesday March 23, 2022, five days shy of her eighty-first birthday. Born March 28, 1941, daughter of Warren and Charlotte Campbell and birth mother Ruth Sheelle, Linda was a life-long resident of the Woodbury/Southbury area.

A loving, wife, mother,...

Mar 21, 2022

Peter Homick 81, Passed away peacefully on March 21, 2022. He was born on November 11, 1940 in Derby Ct. to Peter and Elizabeth Homick. He was very proud to have served in the US Navy. He was employed with Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford for close to 30 years.

He was an avid reader and enjoyed watching...

Mar 18, 2022

Faye Karson, aged 90, of Southbury, CT, passed away of natural causes on March 18, 2022 at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut.

Faye was born on January 20, 1932 in Brooklyn, NY, to Samuel and Molly (Bodner) Messing (both deceased), and had one sister named Shirley (Fanger, deceased).

Faye grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, where she...

Mar 17, 2022

Lili Estol Wadsworth, 100, a beloved mother, humanitarian, and perpetual student, died March 17, 2022 at Danbury Hospital. She is remembered in Woodbury for leading the effort to preserve Main Street as a historic district in 1959. Lili Beatriz Estol was born March 12, 1922 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the only daughter of the Julio Cesar Estol MD and Janet...

Mar 16, 2022

Marie Louise (Richardson) Anctil passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at Yale New Haven Hospital. Marie was an eighty-two-year-old lifetime resident of Prospect, CT. She is survived by Denis Anctil, her husband of fifty-four years, her three children Jim, Tom, and Therese Anctil, her two daughters in law Shannon Wyman-Anctil and Salli Szczesiul, her son in law...