Obituaries

Lucille Lerner

BENNINGTON - Lucille (Lulu) Lerner died Friday, May 3, at 97 years old. At the time of her death, she resided at the Vermont Veterans’ Home.
Lulu was born November 15, 1926, to Samuel and Ethel Weintraub, immigrants from Austria and Hungary, and raised in the Bronx. She and her sister grew...

Thomas Carleton

BRATTLEBORO - Thomas Edwin Carleton II, 57, of Brattleboro, died at home unexpectedly on Sunday, May 5. He was born in Townshend on June 11, 1966, to Thomas Carleton I and Yvonne Joslin (Underwood). He grew up in Wardsboro, and attended Wardsboro Elementary, Leland & Gray, Keene High School...

Judy Ann Lazelle Hill Brown

MARLBORO - Judy Ann Lazelle Hill Brown, 77, of Marlboro, died peacefully on Monday, April 29. She was surrounded by her family at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care in Lebanon, NH.
Judy was born on March 2, 1947, in Wilmington. She was the daughter of Ray Lazelle Sr...

Calvin L. Sherman

DOVER - Calvin L. Sherman, 93, died Friday, May 10, at the Thompson House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Brattleboro. Calvin was born August 6, 1930, the son of Floyd and Ethel Sherman, of East Dover. Calvin was self-employed for many years with Anderson and Sherman Builders. He enjoyed...

Thomas Paul McGovern

DOVER - Thomas Paul (Burger) McGovern, 77, of West Dover, died on December 20, 2023. Born in Bridgeport, CT, on December 26, 1945, Paul was the fifth of six sons to the late James Lawrence McGovern Jr. and Helen Deegan McGovern, of the Long Hill section of Trumbull, CT.
Thomas Paul grew up...

Robert M. Kaufman

WILMINGTON - Robert M. Kaufman, 94, died on Monday, April 8, in New York City of natural causes. Bob was born on November 17,1929 in Vienna, Austria to Paul and Bertha Hirsch Kaufman. A Holocaust survivor, Bob escaped on the first Kindertransport to England in 1938. He was reunited with his...

Timothy W. Agan

WILMINGTON - Timothy W. Agan, 45, a resident of Coldbrook Road, died Sunday, April 7, at his home with partner Chelsea Fischer by his side. Tim was born in Fort Leonard Wood, MO, on June 28, 1979. He was the son of Ernest Ruffell and Leslie Agan. He attended Newport, NH schools, graduating from...

Hobart “Hobie” Clark Terhune

SALISBURY, CT - Hobart Clark “Hobie” Terhune died peacefully on Tuesday, April 2. He was born the only son of Elizabeth Hobby and Sidney Terhune. Hobie was a kind and thoughtful friend who lived life to the fullest. He enjoyed growing up in the Twin Lakes area, in the town of Salisbury.
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Eugene “Gene” Steven Yankura

EAST HANOVER, NJ - In the early morning of June 21, 2023, Eugene “Gene” Steven Yankura, 90, of East Hanover, NJ, formerly of Connecticut, died peacefully at Morristown Post Acute Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Morristown.
Gene was born in Jersey City, to Joseph and Anna (Fedors)...

Whitney T. Hamilton

MARLBORO - Whitney T. Hamilton, of Higley Hill Road, died unexpectedly on Friday, April 5. He was born on November 14, 1984, in Brattleboro and grew up on his grandfather’s dairy farm. He graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 2003. Whitty worked at the Retreat Farm, Feed Commodities in...