Author: Amy Thurber

Doris I. McLain

from the September 15, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Doris L. McLain, 85, died September 11, 1993 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.  She was born August 19, 1908 in Lancaster, NH, the daughter of George Belanger and Flora Leighton.

She attended Lancaster, NH schools and had been a resident of Lebanon for over 30 years.  She was the widow of Almon G. McLain Sr. who died in 1988.  Mrs. McLain was a member of the United Methodist Church of Lebanon.  Her daughter recalls “Her main interests in life were her family, children and grandchildren, and her many friends at the Rogers House in Lebanon.”  Monday evening from 7 to 9 pm.   A funeral Service was held Tuesday; burial was in the Valley Cemetery in Lebanon.

Survivors include: Daughter, Beverly Wilkins, Lebanon, NH; 7 Grandchildren, 5 Great Grandchildren, Nieces & Nephews.

Preceded in death by: Son, Dr. Almon G. McLain, Jr.  Died in 1987; Husband, Almon G. McLain Sr. Died in 1988.

Malcolm J. Smith

from the September 15, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Malcolm J. Smith, 71, died Friday afternoon September 10, 1993 at the Veterans Hospital in White River Jct.  He was born May 2, 1922 in Bridgewater, VT, the son of Perley and Iva (Royce) Smith.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.  We was married to Thelma Bartlett in 1945 in Lebanon and the have lived in Hartford most of the time since.  He worked at Green Mountain Box and Lumber Co. in White River Jct.  He was a member of the Hartford post #26 American Legion.

He leaves his wife of Hartford, two sons, Robert Stone of Lebanon, NH, Malcolm Smith Jr. of Springfield MA, five daughters, Judith Mossey of Hartford, VT, Louise Woodworth of Barre, VT, Freda Grace of Canaan, NH, Rose Hollins of Enfield, NH, Ann Steller of Orange, NH, 16 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, two brothers, Perley Smith of Bradford, VT and Wendall Smith of Stratford, CT, two sisters, Madeline Kilton of Canaan, NH, and Shirley Oldenburgh of Daytona Beach, Fl and several nieces and nephews.

Burial was in West farms Cemetery in Canaan, NH

Leonard J. Gove

from the August 25, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Northfield, N.H. – Leonard J. Gove, 72, of Arch Street, died Wednesday, August 18, 1993 at the Veterans Affairs Hospital on Manchester following a brief illness.  He had lived in Northfield for the last twenty years and had previously lived in Laconia, Belmont, and Tilton, N.H.

Mr. Gove was a self-employed small engines mechanic and had briefly been employed by Pike Industries.

He served I the U.S. Air Force in the European theater during World War II and was a member of the VFW Post No. 1670 of Laconia and the Wilkins Smith Post No. 1 American Legion of Laconia.

He was born in Wilmot on July 27, 1921, the son of Clarence G. and Martha O. (Dean) Gove.

He is survived by four brothers, Leslie of Dayville, Conn., Paul of Grafton, George of Lebanon, and Clarence, Jr. of Wilmot; a sister, Dorothy Connolly of Manchester; and nieces , nephews, and cousins.

Burial was Friday in the Bunker Hill Cemetary in Wilmot Center.  The Rev. Dr. Robert W. Thurston, pastor of the First Baptist Church of New London, officiated.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the American Cancer Society, New Hampshire Division, Gail Singer Memorial Building, 360 Route 101, Unit 501, Bedford, N.H. 03102-6821.

Violet T. LaFountain

from the August 11, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Enfield, N.H. – Violet T. LaFountain, 79, died at her home Friday morning August 7.  She was born in Ludlow, Vermont, February 8, 1914, the daughter of the late Herbert and Mary (Sullivan) Thornton.  She had been employed by the Baltic Mills and later as a cook at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon, N.H.  She enjoyed gardening, flowers, and caring for her many pets.  She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Enfield, N.H.

Graveside committal services were conducted on Tuesday morning in the Pleasant View Cemetery in West Springfield, N.H. The Reverend Chester Kulus, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Enfield, officiated.

Mrs. LaFountain is survived by a daughter, Beatrice J. Tourville of Lebanon, NH; a son, Hank LaFountain of Enfield, NH; sisters Irene Trottier of Springfield, MO; Edith Bell and Mabel Click, both of Claremont, NH; brothers John Thornton of Grantham, NH, Norris Thornton of Newport, NH, Charles Thornton of Waterboro, ME, Dellivan Thornton of Lakeside, MT, and Russell Thornton of Lebanon, NH; six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Walter Woodworth

from the August 4, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Norwich, VT – G. Walter Woodworth, the Leon E. Williams Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, died Friday, July 16 in Norwich after a long illness.  He was 90.

An authority on money, finance and banking, Professor Woodworth began his teaching career in 1925 as an instructor of economics at the University of Michigan.  In 1930 he joined the Tuck School faculty as assistant profefssor of finance, and was promoted to full professor in 1938, teaching at Tuck until 1952.  From 1952-59 he was a professor of finance at the University of Michigan, and 1959-1962 served as the F.M. Bailey Professor of Finance and Banking at the University of Illinois.

He returned to the tuck School from 1962-1968 as the Williams Professor of Finance and Banking, and concluded his teaching career as a visiting professor of banking and finance at the University of Oregon in 1969-70.  Woodworth was born on March 1, 1903 in Delphos, Kansas.  He was elected to Phi beta Kappa honor sociery and received a bachelor’s degree from Kansas Wesleyan University in 1924; he also earned a master’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1925 and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1932.

In 1950, Woodworth received an honorary doctor of business administration degree from Kansas Wesleyan.  He married the former Elizabeth (Betty) Cunningham on Sept. 4, 1926 in Mankato, Kansas.  The Woodworths supported a foster child in the Philippines, Jonathan Sanchez; Woodworth was also the long time guardian of George Sampson, who lived in the Woodworth’s home.   Active in community and civic affairs in Hanover and Norwich, Woodworth was the senior member of the Hanover Rotary Club and in 1992 became a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.

He was a member of the finance committee, the board of directors and chairman of the Norwich Development Association; and was a trustee of The Dartmouth Savings Bank.  He was a longtime member of the Norwich Congregational Church.  He was a member of the American Finance Association, serving on its board of directors in 1957-58, and of the American Economic Association.  He served as public interest director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston in 1951-52.

Among his publications are four books: Principles of Money and Banking (1937); The Monetary and Banking System (1950); The Detroit Money Market (1956) and The Money Market and Monetary Management (1965).  Woodworth is survived by his wife, of Norwich; and a sister, Helen Schopp, of San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Memorial contributions may be made to the Norwich Congregational Church.

Joan Easton Dunleavy

from the August 4, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Joan Easton Dunleavy, 40, died July 16 in Baltimore, Maryland of leukemia.  Mrs. Dunleavy, the daughter of Canaan residents Roger and Barbara Easton, devoted much of her short life to helping the less fortunate, particularly children.

She adopted Caroline, now 2, a Romanian child, and became active in efforts to have other neglected and orphaned Romanian children adopted by American parents.

Even though stricken with leukemia, she continued to organize successful social gatherings for other adoptive American parents and their Romanian children.

Mrs. Dunleavy also sponsored an umproverished girl in Ecuador.  She enjoyed making crafts such as baby quilts and giving these expressions of her love to friends and family.

Mrs. Dunleavy has worked for the Library of Congress for 18 years, most recently in the Performing Arts Division of the Library’s copyright office.

She was born on March 28. 1953, in Washington, D.C. and resided in Springfield, Virginia with John, her husband of five years.

She was a music graduate of Chatham College in Pittsburgh and earned her master’s degree in library science from Catholic University.  She played the piano and harp and was actively involved in her church.

Almost eleven years earlier, Mrs. Dunleavy had fought and survived Hodgkin’s disease.

She is also survived by two sisters and two brothers, Ann of Toms river, NJ; Ruth of Strasburg, VA; Richard of Chicago, Ill; and Roger Easton of Rochester, NY.

Archie Earl Morse

from the July 28, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Archie Earl Morse, 83, died Thursday evening July 22, at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon following a long illness.  He was born in Grafton, NH November 29, 1909, the son of the late Edwin and Elizabeth (Martin) Morse.  He had worked as a farmer all of his life and had attended the Community Lutheran Church of Enfield.  He enjoyed animals and loved country music and dancing.  During his last illness he was cared for by his niece Patricia Shin and his grand-niece Angela Dimond at their home in Enfield, NH.

Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon.  Burial was in the Pine grove Cemetery in Grafton, NH.

Survivors include: Brother, Edwin Morse, of Grafton, NH, sister, Ada Sleeper, Enfield, NH, sister Verna Bocash, Enfield, NH, grand-niece Angela Dimond, of Enfield, NH, and several other nieces and nephews.

Gloria H. Green

from the July 21, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Gloria H. Green, 72, died July 12, 1993 at the home of her daughter in West Roxbury, MA.  She was a Graduate of Enfield High School and the Worchester City Hospital School of Nursing.  She served in the US Army Nursing Corps in the South Pacific during WW II at the 303rd General Hospital.  She had been an OBS Registered Nurse at the Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital in Lebanon for 46 years.  On June 20, of this year the Hospital Dedicated the Family Room of the Birthing Center in her name.  She had been a resident of Enfield most of her life.

A Memorial Service was conducted Saturday, July 17th promptly at 9 AM in the Mary Keane Chapel at Lower Shaker Village in Enfield, NH.

Burial followed in the Lakeview Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to: Greyhound Friends, Inc., 167 saddle Hill Road, Hopkinton, MA 01748; or: The Women of Military Service for American Memorial Foundation, C/O Veterans Administration Medical & Regional Office Center, White River Jct., VT 05501.

Survivors include: Daughter, Georgia Green, West Roxbury, MA 02132; Sisters: Pauline Fritts, Budd Lake, NJ: Theresa Taylor, Westmoreland, NH; Janet Guerette, Weare, NH; Priscilla Eastman, Plainfield, NH; Nieces and Nephews; Jennifer, Close Companion.

Preceded in death by: Father, Ernest I. Gosselin; Mother, Marion Audette; Brother, Daniel Gosselin.

Dorothy Edna Estes

from the July 21, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

Dorothy Edna Estes, 59, died at her home Wednesday morning July 14, 1993.  She was born in West Lebanon, NH Feb. 10, 1923, the daughter of the late William G. & Leola G. (Brown) Carter.  She has been a lifelong resident of the Upper valley having lived in Hartland, Mascoma, and most recently in Canaan.  Her favorite hobby was needlework.  She was married to Raymond Everett Estes Sr. in Sept. 1, 1948 in White River Jct., VT.

Graveside Committal Services were conducted Monday morning July 19, at 10 AM in the Valley Cemetery in Lebanon, NH.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her memory may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Survivors include: Husband, Raymond E. Estes Sr., Canaan, NH 03741; Son, Raymond E. Estes, Jr., Enfield, NH; Sister, Gladys Rivers, Brandon, VT; Sister, Ruth Chaffee, Windsor, VT; Sister, Elsie Cooley, Middlebury, VT; Sister, Lillian Ekroo, Bristol, VT; 1 Grandson: Raymond E. estes III; several nieces, nephews & cousins.

Preceded in death by: Father, William George Carter, Mother, Leola Gladys (Brown) Carter.

James A. Jordan

from the July 14, 1993 issue of The Country Chronicle

James A. Jordan, 79, of 51 Tucker Drive, Contoocook and Barefoot Bay, Fla., died on July 11 at his residence.  He was born in Stratford, N.H., the son of Harry B. and Mae McFadden Jordan and lived for many years with Mrs. Lena Rich Stinson in Stratford Hollow.  He graduated from North Stratford High School, received his Bachelor of Education Degree from Keene State College and his Master of Education degree from the University of New Hampshire.  He commenced his teaching career in Enfield, N.H. where he set up the first woodworking shop using his own power tools until the school district could afford to outfit the shop.  He also taught math and science and coached sports.  He set up the first wood-working shop at Conant High School in East Jaffrey where he taught.  He also taught in Sunapee, N.H.  He became Principal of Pittsburg, N.H. High School.  Later he returned to Enfield as Principal.  He served ten years as Headmaster of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy.  He retired from the Hudson School District where he had served as Business Administrator for the district.  He has been a Boy Scout leader and worked at the Boy Scout Camp Manning in Gilmanton Iron Works, N.H.  For ten years, he and his wife were Business Managers for the Bear Hill Pond and Spruce Pone 4-H camos.

He was inducted into the Keene State College Hall of Fame for his achievements in the sport of baseball.  He was a member of the National and local AARP, the N.H> Retired teachers Association, the Enfield-Mascoma Lions, the United Methodist Church of Roseland, Fla., and the Barefoot Bay Golf Club.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Julia Floyd Jordan of Contoocook. A son, Retired Lt. Commander James A. Jordan, Jr. of Virginia Beach, Va.; a daughter, June A. Wood of Concord, N.H.; three children, Mrs. Jill Jordan Davenport of Charlotte, N.C., Jennifer A. Jordan of Virginia Beach, Va., and James A. Wood of Concord, N.H.; a sister, Katherine J. Harriman of Ashland, N.H.; a brother, Clarence C. Jordan of Ashland, N.H.; several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 15, at the Home, 209 North Main Street, Concord, N.H. Burial will be in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Enfield, N.H. at 4 p.m. on Thursday.  Calling hours will be Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

The family requests that donations be made in his memory to the American Heart Association, 309 Pine Street, Manchester, N.H. 03102 or to a charity of one’s choice.