OBITUARIES

Jul 1, 2015

Robert H. Hebb Sr., 87, of Ayer, died peacefully on Wednesday July 1, 2015, at Apple Valley Continuing Care Center in Ayer after a brief illness. He was surrounded by his loving family.

He was born in Haverhill, MA, on November 25, 1927, and lived most of his life in Ayer. He served our country in the...

Jun 25, 2015

William S. Boettcher, 97, passed away peacefully on June 25, 2015 at Nashua Crossings Assisted Living in Nashua, NH after a short illness.

Bill was born January 27, 1918 in South Hadley, MA. He graduated from Mount Hermon Preparatory School in Gill, MA. and the Stockbridge School of Agriculture in Amherst, MA. He was a veteran of...

Jun 24, 2015

Jefferson of Ayer June 24, 2015 Emma C. (Briggs) Jefferson 92 died at the Nashoba Valley Medical Center. She was born in Ayer July 31, 1922 daughter of the late William W. Briggs Sr. and Helen T. (Kinney) Briggs.

A lifelong resident of Ayer where she was educated and was a graduate of Ayer High School. Retired...

Jun 10, 2015

Steven W Koeller, age 51 died suddenly Wednesday, June 10,2015 at his home in Pepperell. Details can be found on McGaffigan Funeral Home website.Services are private. Steven formerly of Leighton St. is survived by his wife,Patti Koeller, his children Hilary Koeller,Hannah Koeller, Meghan Tapley and Joshua Levesque. Survivors also include his parents, Maureen Lavely and Donald Koeller. His siblings...

Jun 7, 2015

Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Woodin, 83, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on Saturday, June 7, 2015, in the Garden Room hospice suite at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, VT, after a lengthy illness. Born and raised in Pepperell, Massachusetts, on October 2, 1931, Liz was the daughter of the late Peter and Mary (McGuire) Fitzpatrick. She was married for...

May 28, 2015

Claire L. McLaughlin, 85, passed away on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester after a lengthy illness. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on December 19, 1929, she was the daughter of Arthur L. and Honorine L. Rheaume.

She was a graduate of Saint Jean Baptiste High School in Lynn. After almost 20...

May 28, 2015

Ralph Brian Blood, 58, passed away, his hand in his wife's hand, on May 28, 2015, after a short, courageous battle with esophageal cancer. He was born November 8,1956, in Nashua, NH, and lived his entire life in Pepperell and Groton prior to retiring to Florida last year. He retired after a 31 year career with NSTAR Electric and...

May 16, 2015

Deborah M. Alciere died Saturday at the Community Hospice House in Merrimack, NH, after a 5 year battle with Lung Cancer. She was born in Somerville, MA, September 11, 1950, daughter of the late Fernando L. and Catherine E. (Balboni) Querze.

She was a graduate of Billerica Memorial High School class of 1968, and later graduated from...

May 10, 2015

George E. Tully, born in Dunstable, MA, on October 1, 1918, passed away at the age of 96 on May 10, 2015, surrounded by his family and close friends. He joins his beloved wife of 70 years June (Lund) Tully, whom he married in May 1938 in Hollis, NH. He held Dunstable's Boston Post Cane since 2014. George was...

Apr 12, 2015

Ralph Joseph Sabatino Of Dunstable, MA entered into eternal peace on April 12, 2015 at the age of 93. He was born in Cambridge, MA to the late Santo and C. Francis (Procopia) Sabatino on November 16, 1921. As a Veteran of World War II (101st National Guard & 91st Infantry), Ralph took great pride in his country and...

Apr 11, 2015

Richard H. "Dick" Aubin, 81, died peacefully in his home, surrounded by family on Saturday, April 11th.

He leaves his wife, Linda J. (Soucy) of 39 years. He also leaves 11 children; Mark, Jill, Paul, Eric, Wade, Jesse, Matthew, Robert, Randy, Richard, and Eva; 19 grandchildren; and 3 great grandchildren.

Born in Cambridge, MA, on...

Apr 7, 2015

Theresa L. Murphy passed away Tuesday, April 7 at the Apple Valley Center in Ayer. She was born in Somerville April 16, 1926, daughter of the late Richard and Mary (Campbell) Reinold. She spent her life in Somerville was a graduate of St. Clements's High School. In her working years she had been employed by the Anderson-O'Donnell Insurance Agency...

Apr 3, 2015

James David Rowse died April 3, 2015. He was born in Concord, MA, on November 10, 1994, son of Richard J. and Suzanne (Chamberlain) Rowse. He was a lifelong resident of Pepperell where he attended the schools and was a graduate of North Middlesex Regional High School.

Jimmy is survived by his mother, Suzanne C. Rowse, his...

Mar 30, 2015

Margaret (Meg) Nickerson Tarr passed away March 30, 2015 surrounded by her family and loved ones. Meg was the youngest of the three Tarr girls, sister to Elizabeth and Kathryn, and daughter of Evan and Donna of Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA.

Meg is also survived by her grandmother, Elizabeth F. Tarr of Woburn; uncles and aunts Jack and Patricia...

Mar 22, 2015

Gerald W. "Gerry" Simmons of Dunstable passed away on March 22, 2015, after a brief illness at Lowell General Hospital with his family by his side. He had just celebrated his 91st birthday having been born on March 5, 1924, in Salem, MA, the son of the late William H. and Ada L. (Grinnel) Simmons. He had been a...

Mar 21, 2015

Lillian L. Ogonowsky, 84 of Pepperell, passed away peacefully on March 21, 2015, at Tufts Medical Center in Boston.

Lillian was born in Lowell, MA, on June 11, 1930. She was employed as a bindery worker and a school bus driver for many years. She was a strong and vibrant woman who enjoyed traveling, dancing, reading, gardening,...

Mar 17, 2015

Alfred Leroy Carkin, Sr., 89, of Pepperell, died March17, 2015 at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Brighton. He was born in Groton, the son of Sidney Leroy Carkin and Charlotte Lillian (Oldershaw) Carkin. He moved to Pepperell in the 1970s. He was a descendent of Mayflower passenger George Soule, and many original proprietors of Groton.

Alfred...

Mar 14, 2015

Mary E. (Miller) Seely, 92, a resident of Westminster, MA, passed on Saturday, March 14 of Congestive Heart Failure and COPD at Keystone Nursing Center hospice care in Leominster, MA.

The daughter of the late Minister Arthur J. Miller, and Idaline (Rodgers) Miller, she was born on June 30, 1922 in Rimersburg, PA. She was raised primarily...

Mar 6, 2015

Bernadette L. (Kulski) Visniewski, 87, died Friday at the Fairhaven Health Care Center in Lowell. She was born in Billerica, daughter of the late Bernard and Margaret (McKay) Kulski and was the wife of the late Andrew S. Visniewski.

In her working years, she had been employed at the former Fort Devens as a secretary to the...

Mar 5, 2015

Gregory William Gibson born in Boston, on September 26, 1946, to G.W. Gibson and his wife Mary (Butler), passed away on March 5, 2015, after his courageous battle with several medical issues. He leaves the love of his life, his wife Joan Gibson, who he was married to for 43 years. They have two beautiful children, his son Brett...