Milestones friend of everyone with a gentle smile and the most agreeable disposition.
In Memoriam
Louise Pfeiffer ’36, of Cambridge, passed away on January 5, 2018. Louise was in Miss Hammond’s Kindergarten in 1923, then attended the Russell School for Grade 1, and Buckingham School through 9th grade. Marjorie D. Moerschner ’43 of West Newton died on Oct 9, 2017. Marjorie attended the Buckingham School in Cambridge and graduated in 1949 from Boston University with a degree in education. Her father, an emigrant from Germany, owned and operated Morschner Dye Works in Needham Heights. Marjorie spent some time teaching primary grades and later worked at Nutter, McClennen & Fish as a real estate title examiner. She lived in West Newton until 2014, when she moved to Brookhaven at Lexington. She also owned a home in Brewster and enjoyed her summers on the Cape. She traveled extensively and was active in numerous charitable organizations, including the Newtonville Garden Club and serving as a Deacon and member of the Legacy Committee of the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville and as a Deacon of the Second Church in Newton UCC, a driver until age 90 for FISH (an organization which provides transportation to medical appointments for elders), and as Secretary of the Middlesex County Prison Coordinating Committee, which supported education programs and other restorative services for prisoners. Marjorie is survived by many cousins in Germany and by Ortrud Koob, of Weston, MA, Inge Yarri, of Milford, CT, and Elizabeth Gibbs, of Middletown, RI. George W. Jones ’47 of Cambridge passed away on February 5, 2018 at the age of 87. Son of the late Llewellyn Jones and Susan Wilbur Warren Jones. Devoted brother of the late Llewellyn Jones, Jr. and the late Cornelia Jones. Long time electrical engineer for Draper Labs, ham radio and trolley car buff,
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Harry Barr ’51 of Westwood, MA, Boston, and Little Compton, RI, passed away peacefully December 25, 2017 surrounded by his loving family. He was 85. He endured a long battle with cancer and also lived with type I diabetes for 62 years. A graduate of B&N, Wesleyan University, and Harvard Business School, he enjoyed a long career in investments at several firms in Boston. After retirement he volunteered on several nonprofit boards. He was a scholar of World War II and a collector of memorabilia. He also enjoyed his sizeable stamp collection plus travel, reading, and sports. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Judith Wetherbee Barr; his four children, Pamela, Douglas, David and his wife Lisa, and Gregory and his wife Elizabeth; his sister, Audrey Maxwell Barnell; and his seven grandchildren who were the light of his life—Emma, Dekkers, Tyler, Maxwell, Nathaniel, Haley, and Justin. Roger Stuart Sohn ’69 of Los Angeles died suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday, February 23, 2018 at the age of 66. Born May 19, 1951 in Boston, he was a graduate of Browne & Nichols, Brandeis, and the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. During his career as an orthopedic specialist and surgeon he was affiliated with Tufts Medical Center, Century City Hospital, Midway Hospital, and Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills, and established a private practice in Century City, CA. He was also an accomplished magician. He will be deeply missed by his friends and family. He is survived by his wife Francine, sons Joshua (Amy), Matthew, and Jonathan, grandson Benjamin, and his brother Stephen Sohn ’62. Penelope Lincoln Homans Craig ’76 died of end-stage colon cancer on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at the home of her brother and sister-in-law in West Tisbury, MA. She found peace after fighting a hard 22-month battle. Penelope was born on June 26, 1958 to Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee Homans and William Perkins Homans, Jr., a prominent Boston civil rights and criminal defense attorney. She grew up in Cambridge. During her years at BB&N she sang in the school choir and with the Madrigals, acted (a
memorable performance was as Titania, Queen of the Faeries in A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and played flute for the Russian Dance troupe, with whom she traveled to perform in Russia in 1976. She was also a remarkable hunter-jumper horseback rider in Ipswich. She attended Tufts University and the University of Rhode Island. She acquired amazing culinary skills and possessed a creative flair which she brought to her early jobs in retail. She relocated to Newport, RI in the late 1970s and lived there through the 1980s, opening her own retail clothing store, Penelope’s. In 1997 she married Steven Craig. Together they started Boston Lead Company, with Penelope serving as a lead instructor, teaching individuals how to inspect for and remove lead and asbestos from buildings, and running its business operations for 20 years. They lived and raised a family in Essex, CT. She returned to her acting career, performing with Healing Hearts for the Arts. Martha’s Vineyard was a vitally important place to her and her family. She went from the time she was born and herded her family almost every summer for years to Seven Gates Farm in West Tisbury, staying at the Bunkhouse, a house built by her grandfather, father, and his siblings. Her grandparents William and Edith Parkman Homans first leased in Seven Gates in 1930, then built their own. Penelope’s mother Elizabeth and her grandmother Penelope Pattee had rented near Beetlebung Corner in Chilmark for many years before she was born. Her strong love for the Vineyard led her to live her last days surrounded by the scrubby neck oaks and the sounds of the waves which had provided her peace her whole life. Penelope was a caring and loving wife, mother, sister, aunt, great-aunt, and grandmother. She leaves behind her husband Steven Craig; step-daughter Kristen Craig Defrance and husband August, stepson Mathew Craig and fiancée Ashley, sister Ana Ionnitiu ’69 of Santa Fe NM, brother Nicholas Ionnitiu ’70 and wife Lori of West Tisbury MA, brother, William P. Homans in MS, sister-in-law Leslie Homans, Cambridge MA, sister Elizabeth Homans McKenna and husband Jeffrey of Phoenix, AZ, eight grandchildren, seven nieces and nephews, and one great nephew. Penelope’s vibrant spirit, love, and beaming smile will be missed and remembered by all who knew her.
Friends of BB&N Ellen Agabedis September 17, 2017 Mother of James J. Agabedis, Jr. ’82 James Andraos December 25, 2017 Grandfather of Elizabeth Taylor ’18 and Philip Taylor ’18 Brandon Binneman January 10, 2018 Father of Phoebe Binneman ’21 Dorothy Heilman Budd December 8, 2017 Grandmother of Jordan Gill ’00 and Taylor Gill ’02 Mother of Karen Gill, Former Staff David W. Budding January 5, 2018 Grandfather of Austin Cohen ’20 and Sophia Cohen ’21 Nancy Penton Etter February 6, 2018 Wife of the late John “Jack” Etter ’49, BB&N’s Former Athletic Director and Faculty Emeritus John Fusco January 18, 2018 Father-in-law of Kevyn Barbera Fusco ’83 Grandfather of Bradley Fusco ’15, Eleanor Fusco ’17, and Mia Fusco ’19
Raymond B. Hanselman January 5, 2018 Father-in-law of Rachel Kroner Hanselman ’89 Grandfather of Charlotte Hanselman ’27 Wilbert C. Longfield February 17, 2018 Grandfather of Timothy Longfield ’18 Kirkland C. Mead November 26, 2017 Father of Lindsey Mead Russell ’92 and Hilary Russell ’95
Charles Merrill, Jr. November 29, 2017 Former Trustee Grandfather of Emma Ansara ’92 Father of Bruce Merrill ’66, David Merrill ’71, and Paul Merrill ’72 Cristina Moniz-Baltazidis January 3, 2018 Mother of Aris Baltazidis ’23 Eli Rubenstein January 27, 2018 Father of Isaac Rubenstein ’98 Elizabeth Howe Verrill June 15, 2017 Mother of Rebecca Verrill Smith ’76 and Former Faculty
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