posted: Dec 17, 2024 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
David George Conte was born December 26, 1945, in New Haven, CT, to the parents of the late David A. Conte and Rose Saccavino Conte. He departed this earthly realm on December 11, 2024.
posted: Dec 16, 2024 1:27 pm | Comments (0)
Betty Lucile Bell James, 89, made her final transition the evening of Dec. 9, 2024.
posted: Dec 11, 2024 9:30 am | Comments (0)
James Erkerd, age 77, a longtime resident of New Haven, Conn., entered eternal rest on Nov. 27, 2024, at Connecticut Hospice, Branford, Conn. James was predeceased by his parents, Wash David and Rosie Lee Erkerd, and brother, Freddie Erkerd.
posted: Dec 10, 2024 1:36 pm | Comments (0)
Johnny Dye was born to Flora Booker and Dave Dye, in Batesville, Mississippi, on July 22, 1940. He was the youngest of seven children: two sisters and four brothers. John’s early education was in Batesville, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee. In 1959 Johnny moved with his brother and sister-in-law to New Haven, Connecticut. There he continued his education at Hillhouse High School and graduated high school while being employed at Yale New Haven Hospital.
posted: Dec 9, 2024 1:55 pm | Comments (0)
Elizabeth McDowell Foster (98) of New Haven, Connecticut, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, at Yale New Haven Hospital. Elizabeth McDowell was born in Blairsville, Pa., on April 8, 1926. She was the daughter of the late Dudley and Adline Butts McDowell.
posted: Dec 3, 2024 8:00 am | Comments (0)
John Curtis Bland, age 81, of New Haven, passed away on Nov. 13, 2024.
posted: Dec 2, 2024 10:32 am | Comments (0)
June Williams Davis, age 92, and longtime resident of New Haven, CT entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. She was the daughter of the late George K. and Esther (Glasgow) Williams, born on June 7, 1932. June was also the mother of the late Glenda Paige Boyd.
posted: Dec 2, 2024 10:22 am | Comments (0)
Clara Mae Aldrich Lawhorn (“Chamae”) (“Charmie”), age 89, passed away peacefully Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.
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Ernest James Green was born on March 13, 1926, in Darlington, South Carolina. He was one of four children and received his education in Darlington.
posted: Nov 14, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
Hazel Mae Harrington, the daughter of late Willie Clifton Harrington, and the late Mary Louise Harrington. She was born in Rocky Hill. Hazel worked at the Hamden Children’s Center, where she utilized her doctor assistant degree. She was a volunteer at Katherine Brennan elementary school as a volunteer. Because of her giftedness at working with children, she was asked by Dr. James Comer to assist him in his work. Dr. James P. Comer is a leading child psychiatrist who has served as the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center since 1976.
posted: Nov 14, 2024 9:00 am | Comments (2)
Robert DuVernet Parker, whose quiet passion and warm commitment to the arts and education enriched the lives of thousands of students and artists, died peacefully at home, on November 8, 2024 at the age of 74, surrounded by his family.
Well-known in New Haven as a teacher and then Director at ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven’s Audubon Arts District, Bob was a deeply loved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend, as well as a trusted leader and friend to so many communities and institutions.
posted: Nov 12, 2024 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
Margaret Ann (Jerry) Lewis, 89, of New Haven, Conn., went to be with her heavenly Father on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024 with her loving son, Terry Lewis, by her side. She is the daughter of Moses and Adell (Wiles) Jerry, born on Sept. 7, 1935 in Darlington, South Carolina.
posted: Nov 6, 2024 1:19 pm | Comments (0)
Evangelist Sandra L. Willis was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1948 to the late Clarence and Willie Mae Brown-Willis. She was the youngest of three children. She was the mother of Vaughn M. Willis, her only son, her EVERYTHING!
posted: Nov 1, 2024 12:48 pm | Comments (0)
Shirley A. Cox-Cheek, 82, went to her eternal resting place on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. She was the daughter of the late John Frank Edwards and Vivian O. Cox, born March 1, 1942, in Greenville, South Carolina. She attended public school in New York City. Shirley worked as an outstanding Nurse Assistant at Whitney Manor for many years. She was later employed by Yale-New Haven Hospital as an exceptional Environmental Associate where she retired in 2009.
posted: Nov 1, 2024 12:36 pm | Comments (1)
On Sunday, Oct. 27, in the year of our lord 2024, The Arc Angel Gabriel sounded his horn and the matriarch of her family, at the age of 90, answered the call and peacefully went home.