The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts (2024)

00.0 A DEATHS 1997. Peter P. Beloved husband of Frances -Of Woburn, Feb. 3, E. (Tibbetts).

Devoted father of Peter F. and his wife Christina of Burlington, Barbara Erichsen and her husband Merrill of VA and Donna E. Carbone and her husband Patrick of Lowell. Dear brother of Paul F. of Quincy, Mary McHatton, Lillian Gorman both of Datona Beach, FL and the late Theresa Thompson, Jennie Gibbs and Pauline Schelfhaudt.

Also lovingly survived by 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Funeral from the William R. Carafa Son Home for Funerals, 389 Wshington Ave, CHELSEA on Thursday Feb. 6 at 9 a.m. Followed by a Holy Eucharist Service at St.

Luke's Episopal Church, Chelsea at 10 a.m. Relative and friends kindly invited. Visiting Hours Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett. Late member of the Teamsters Union Local Late Vestry Member, Junior and Sr.

Warden of St. Luke's Church. For those who wish donations in Peter's memory, be made de to Hospice Care, Montvale Stoneham, MA 02180. SERRATORE-Of Reading, Feb 3, Dominic J. Beloved husband of Grace (Furfari).

Father of Maria L. Dalton and her husband David Jr and David D. Serratore all of Reading. Grandfather of Eric David Serratore. Brother of Frank of Fitchburg, Catherine McElhinney Ipswich, and Nicholas of Byfield.

Funeral from the Cota Funeral Home, 335 Park St (corner of Park St and Rte 28) NORTH READING on Thursday, Feb 6 at 8 AM. Funeral Mass in St Agnes Church, 186 Woburn St, Reading at 9 AM. Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday 4-8 PM. Interment Wildwood Cemetery, Winchester. Donations may be made in his memory to the New England Medical Center Clinic, 750 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111 or to the Hospital Oncology Clinic, 41 Highland Ave, Winchester, MA 01890.

Dominic was a member of the Building Inspectors Assn of MA a US Army Veteran. SILLARI-Of Plymouth, formerly of Somerville, Feb. 3, Charles S. Beloved husband of the late Clara M. (Lauretano).

Father of Salvatore 'John' Sillari and his wife Christine of Somerville, Rosann M. Sillari of Medford and Ralph C. Sillari and his wife Debra of Lexington. Brother of Tony Sillari of Somerville, Mary Zappulla and Angelina Sillari both of Somerville, Daniel Sillari of Medford and the late Anna Dion. Grandfather of Christine, Charles, Stephen, Elizabeth, Emily, and Catherine Sillari.

Great grandfather of Charles Anthony Sillari. Charlie is also survived by many nieces and nephews. Funeral from the Cota-Struzziero Funeral Home, 197 Washington SOMERVILLE, on Friday, Feb. 7 at 9 a.m. Funeral Mass in St.

Anthony's Church, 12 Properzi Way, Somerville at 10 Relatives and friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday, 7-9 and Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Interment Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford. Donations may be made in his memory to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen Framingham, MA 01701. Charlie is a life member of the Somerville Lion's Club and Founding Director of the Metropolitan Bank and Trust, Somerville. SPENCER-KELLNER-Barbara Foxboro on February 3.

Beloved wife of David Spencer. Dear daughter of Harvey and Marion (Goldstein) Kellner of Foxboro. Daughter-in-law of Clarence D. and Frances S. Spencer of Missouri.

Devoted mother of Michael David Spencer and Thomas Arthur Spencer. Loving sister of Mark Kellner of Peabody and Janice Hollander of California. Sister-in-law of Stanley Clay and Katherine Spencer, Susan Kellner and Scott Hollander. Aunt of Robert Hollander, Michelle and Amanda Kellner and Katie, Samuel, Molly, and Matthew Spencer. Graveside services at Sharon Memorial Park, Sharon on Thursday, February 6 at 10:45 a.m.

Memorial observance will be omitted. Remembrances in her memory may be made to the Mt. Auburn Hospital, 330 Mt. Auburn Cambridge, MA 02238 or the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit, 116 Huntington Boston, MA 02116. Arrangements by Brezniak-Rodman Funeral Directors, WEST NEWTON.

STRUMSKI -Joseph Francis of Brewster, formerly of Yarmouthport and Canton on Feb. 3 at the age of 75. Beloved husband of the late Mildred Rose (Lancaster) Strumski and father of Carole A. Brown of Canton, Joseph F. Strumski, Brewster, John T.

Strumski of N. 'Attleboro and Michael Strumski of Florida. He is also I survived by three brothers; Leo John E. and Walter P. of Canton, a sister Helen Kessler of Canton, 10 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be held at 10:15 a.m., Thursday from the Hallett Val Home, 273 Station S. YARMOUTH followed by a Funeral Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Pius Church, S. Yarmouth.

Calling hours are 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Wed. in the Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday.

In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to the American Cancer Soc. for Prostate Cancer Research, 1115 W. Chestnut Brockton, MA 02401. -Irene (Samourian) of Watertown, Feb. 2, 1997.

Beloved wife of Diran 1 Surabian. Devoted sister of Victoria, Nevart and Mary Samourian, Pearl Norigian and the late Harry, Kay, Bagdasar and Ozzie Samourian. 'Also survived by several nieces and nephews. Funeral service at St. James Armenian Church, 465 Mt.

Auburn Watertown, Thursday, Feb. 6, at 1 p.m. Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend. Visiting hours at Aram Bedrosian Funeral Home, 558 Mt. Auburn WATERTOWN (Rte.

16) Wed. 5-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to the above named church. Interment Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.

TIRRELL-In Woburn, formerly of Beverly, February 3, James H. Beloved husband of the late Patricia (Couble) Tirrell. Devoted father of James F. of Beverly, Catherine Larivee and Paul Tirrell, both of Woburn, Michael of Ipswich and Francis of Danvers. Brother of Katherine Fitzpatrick of Sandwich and the late Edward 'Bud' a and Gerard Tirrell.

Also survived by 10 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in St. Mary's Church, 253 Cabot Street, Beverly, on Thursday, February 6th, at 10 a.m. Interment will follow at St Mary's Cemetery, Beverly. Relatives and friends may call at the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, 263 Main Street (Rt.

38 South from Rt. 128), WOBURN, Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. VENTURA-Of Everett, Feb. 2, Felipe Jr. Beloved Son of Felipe and Gloria (Henriquez).

Feb. 6th at 10 A.M. Relatives and friends invited. Visiting hours Wed. 2-4 7-9 P.M.

Burial in Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. WOODS-Of Charlestown, Feb 4, 1997, Rose M. (Gowe) Woods. Beloved wife of the late John E. Devoted mother of John 'Buster' Woods, Richard 'Pookey Roger Pee Wee' Mary Griffin, Susan Lopez go Janet Sullivan, all of Charlestown.

Loving grandmother of 21 grandchildren 15 great grandchildren. Sister of the late Richard Gowe. Funeral from the Frank H. Carr Funeral Home, 220 Bunker Hill St, CHARLESTOWN, Friday at 9:15. Funeral Mass in St Mary's Church at 10 AM.

Relatives friends are invited. Visiting hours Thursday evening 5-9 PM. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden. Late owner of Rose's Variety Store. In lieu of flowers donations in Rose's name may be made to Trinity Hospice, 254 South St, Waltham, MA 02154.

Parking area adjacent to Funeral Home. WRAY-In Naples, FL, formerly of NYC and North Falmouth, Feb. 2, Christopher M. Wray. Age 36.

Beloved son of Mr. Mrs. C. Robert Wray of Naples, FL and North Falmouth. Brother of Mrs.

Robert (Kathanne) Fowler of Hartford, CT and Mrs. John (Maura) Leddy of Raynham. Also survived by 3 nieces and a nephew. Funeral from the Chapman, Cole Funeral Home, 584 West Falmouth Highway (Rte. 28A), WEST FALMOUTH, on Feb.

8th at 11 AM followed by a Funeral Mass at 12 Noon. at Saint Elizabeth Seton Church, Quaker North Falmouth. Interment North Falmouth Cemetery. Visiting hours at the Funeral Home Friday evening 7-9 PM. Donations in Christopher's memory may be made to St.

Elizabeth Seton Church. YEO-John Stephen, on February 3. Beloved husband of Wendela Doble Yeo. Devoted father of Emily Yeo Schuls and Amanda Yeo. Also survived by his mother Harriet Curry Yeo; sister, Janet Yeo Barr and brother, Robert Yeo.

Funeral and Burial Service Thursday, February 6, 2 p.m. in St. Anne's In-the-Fields Church, Lincoln. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Jimmy Fund, 44 Binney Boston 02115. ZEITLIN-Entered into rest February 3, 1997, Bessie (Wolsk), age 90, of Cambridge, formerly of Purdys and Bal Harbour, Florida.

Beloved wife of the late Edward J. Zeitlin, dearest mother of Robert Zeitlin of Stow, and Ruth Fischbach of Cambridge. Cherished mother-in-law of Judy Zeitlin and Gerald Fischbach, devoted grandmother of Andrew and Jeremy Zeitlin and Elissa Fischbach Grayer, Peter, Mark, and Neal Fischbach. Adoring great grandmother of Annie. and loving aunt, cousin and friend to many.

Services 12 noon Wednesday, February 5 at Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th St. and Amsterdam Avenue in New York City. Interment follows at Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Ridgewood, Brooklyn. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Bessie Wolsk Zeitlin Scholarship Endowment Fund, Brandeis University or to the charity of your choice.

Her love and generosity enriched our lives beyond compare. JOHN J. BUCKLEY 1985 FILE PHOTO taught us many lessons and the last one was the way he died." The Lawrence native graduated from St. Patrick's Grammar School and Lawrence High School. He then went on to St.

John's Preparatory School in Danvers, where he has been inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame. He went on to Georgetown University, which he attended on a track scholarship, and served in the Army, where he attained the rank of major, serving in World War II. Mr. Buckley also had served as a governor's councilor and register of deeds. "I'd say his greatest contribution to Lawrence was keeping the city alive by bringing in diversified industry after the textile mills closed," said another son, John J.

Jr. A fixture in Lawrence social and political circles, Mr. Buckley was often seen at the Hibernian Hall, the Irish fraternal society to which many of his relatives belonged. He served as president of the annual St. Patrick's Day luncheon.

It was a chairmanship that he held for almost as long as his political career. "It was great to see John come in and light up the place," said Jack Lahey, who runs part of Hibernian Hall. "When you sat down to talk to John 1 Buckley, you were sitting with the history of Lawrence. It was a pleasure." Mr. Buckley leaves four sons, John J.

Jr. of Lawrence, Michael V. of Milwaukee, Brian F. of Salisbury and Patrick M. of Portland, a beloved friend, Ann Gaiolas of Haverhill; three brothers, Timothy of Salisbury, and Michael and Daniel of Lawrence; three sisters, Sr.

Sheila Marie of Lawrence, Sr. Marion Bernard of Wellesley, and Mrs. Mary Nyhan of Lawrence; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Saturday in St.

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He was 91. A resident of Wellesley since 1963, Mr. Mehrlich was born in Cincinnati. He graduated magna cum laude from Butler University in Indianapolis, did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, and earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1930. He finished a postdoctoral program at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1932.

Mr. Mehrlich started working at the US Army's Natick Development Anne Elizabeth Harsch Was Washington journalist; at 90 Anne Elizabeth (Wood) Harsch, of Jamestown, R.I., a former journalist who covered Congress, died Jan. 22. She was 90. A Washington native who had lived in Boston, Mrs.

Harsch traveled throughout the United States as a child of Navy Admiral Spencer S. Wood, and she graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania in 1928. She spent the next year in France and I returned to Washington to cover Congress as a journalist. Years later, she married Joseph C. Harsch, chief editorial writer for the Christian Science Monitor.

Mrs. Harsch later focused on raising a family. She became active in the Jamestown Garden Club, where she served as president, and in the Episcopal Church, where she served on the vestry in St. Matthew's Church in Jamestown. She leaves her husband; three sons, J.

William of Saunderstown, R.I., Jonathan of Glenwood Springs, and Paul Arthur of Pownal, 12 grandchildren and one greatgrandson. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on March 22 at St. Matthew's Church in Jamestown. Burial was private.

Ann W. Andrews, 72 Volunteer in Hartford arts Ann Wright Andrews of Heritage Village in Southbury, and Truro, who posed as a "mannequin" in Lanvin's Paris showroom, died of breast cancer Jan. 30 in her Connecticut home. She was 72. Born in Brooklyn, Mrs.

Andrews was raised in Westport and Wilton, Conn. She graduated from Staples High School in Westport. While liv-, ing in Maine, she raised two dren, danced, and played in small theater productions. Her marriage to the late Oliver Andrews former head of the modern language department at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, took her to France for several years. While there, she worked for Lanvin, modeling clothes.

After returning to the United States, she lived in Storrs and earned her bachelor's degree in art history. Mrs. 'Andrews lived in Storrs for 25 years. A lover of art, she volunteered to conduct walking tours of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford for 20 years. She also gave hourlong talks, called Take Tens, about the Atheneum's collections and exhibits during lunch hours.

Mrs. Andrews leaves a daughter, Anne, of Little Compton, R.I.; three sons, Geoffrey of Newton, Michael of Milton, and Anthony of Rockport; her mother, Virginia Wright of Southbury, a sister, Virgina Collier of West Redding, a brother, Thomas Wright of Boca Raton, and six grandchildren. Services will be private. Alan C. Nelson, 63 Former INS commissioner LOS ANGELES TIMES SACRAMENTO, Calif.

Alan C. Nelson, a former commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, died Thursday. He was 63. Mr. Nelson, a San Francisco Bay area lawyer, was most recently in the news in 1994 as co-author of California's Proposition 187, the controversial measure to cut off government services to illegal immigrants.

Center in 1958 as director of the food and engineering departments. He managed and directed research, development and engineering programs for the US Department of Defense, helping design food products, meals, rations, packaging and food preservation techniques. He was also closely involved in NASA space programs. Before that position, he had served as director of the Food and Container Institute for the Armed Forces in Chicago. Mr.

Mehrlich was a former consultant to General Foods the National Planning Association in Washington and the Cocoa Research Institute. He had also served on many overseas assignments, working on a milk program in Peru, coffee programs in El Salvador and Brazil, a food crop production program in Venezuela, a rice program in Ecuador and pineapple production in Hawaii. While in Hawaii, he designed a chemical, one of his four patents, that lengthened the ripening season of pineapples to prevent spoilage during collection. In 1964, he received the Army's Meritorious Civilian Service Award Medal. Mr.

Mehrlich was a member of several associations and clubs, including the American Society for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Society of Physiologists, the New York Academy of Science and the National Academy of Seience. He was also a member of the Wellesley Kiwanis Club. He leaves his wife, Virgina (White); two sons, Ferdinand P. Jr. of Provo, Utah, and Thomas Henry of Bluffton, S.C.; a daughter, Elise M.

Gutwald, also of Bluffton, S.C.; and two sisters, Clare M. Wilmeth of Indianapolis, and Mary M. Dugan of Columbia, Ind. Services at the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church will be announced. Burial will be private.

Eliot B. Ware, 88 Was N.H. state representative, Eliot B. Ware of Hollis, N.H., a former Needham resident who served five terms as a New Hampshire state representative, died Sunday at his home. He was 88.

Born in Boston, Mr. Ware had fished off Georges Bank with commercial fishermen out of Harwich Port and Chatham as a youth. During the 1920s he flew planes delivering mail to Cape Cod and the Islands. Mr. Ware worked as an insurance underwriter for Liberty Mutual and Continental Insurance companies.

During World War II, he served in the US Army enginering corps. Mr. Ware was an avid yachtsman and a life member of US Power Squadron, where he taught many navigation courses. He was captain of the Boston Navigator's Club. He was also a member of NEWCA, the New England Watch and Clock Association, and was a lifelong ham radio operator.

He was also a Mason and a member of the Hollis Seniors and the Sons of the American Revolution. A lover of nature, he was an expert at identifying trees and could identify birds by their songs. Mr. Ware leaves his wife, Isabel (Thayer) of Hollis; a daughter, Nancy Ware Morrow of Wellesley Hills; a granddaughter, Suzanne Choate Leary of Beverly; and a grandson, Robert Choate Morrow Jr. of Wellesley Hills.

Funeral services are private. OTHER DEATHS -HARGENS, Charles W. Jr. In Doylestown, Thursday, at 103. An artist of the American West, he sketched book covers for Zane Grey and other writers.

SPANN, William Carter In Oakland, Sunday, at 51. The nephew of former President Jimmy Carter and self-described "bad peanut" of the family had been in and out of California jails since 1969. FLEISCHMAN, Lawrence A. In London, Friday, at 71. The chairman and chief executive officer of Kennedy Galleries in New York, he was an avid collector of antiquities.

ZUCKERT, Bill In Los Angeles, Jan. 23, at 76. Character actor in radio, television, stage and film for more than a half century, he served on the boards of directors of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and Screen Actors Guild. THELMA SACHAR Thelma Sachar, 90 Called 'matriarch of Brandeis' Thelma (Horowitz) Sachar of Newton, described as a "matriarch of Brandeis" University, who helped build the Waltham school, died yesterday of respiratory failure in Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. She was 90.

Mrs. Sachar was the wife of the late Abram Sachar, Brandeis University's first president and one of its founders. For 40 years, Mrs. Sachar supported the university as hostess to US and foreign presidents and scientists, as good-will ambassador, and as a leading member of the Brandeis University Women's Committee, a volunteer group that has raised millions of dollars to support Brandeis libraries. "Thelma Sachar will always be remembered as the matriarch of Brandeis," said the school's president, Jehuda Reinharz.

"She was a brilliant woman who brought her grace and style to bear on everything she did." Born in St. Louis, Mrs. Sachar graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University. In 1985, the Brandeis board of trustees established the Thelma Sachar Endowed Scholarship Fund for undergraduates. She was active in many charitable and social affairs in Newton and Greater Boston.

She leaves two sons, Howard of Kensington, and David of Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the Silver Auditorium of the Sachar International Center on the Brandeis University campus. Burial will be private. Plymouth man suspected in wife's murder held in N.J.

PLYMOUTH A 49-yearold man suspected of killing his wife and stuffing her body into an attic crawl space was arrested yesterday in a hotel in Atlantic City, prosecutors said. Authorities had been searching for Victor Cardarelli since a cadaver-sniffing dog found the body of his wife, Carol, in their apartment building last month. Carol Cardarelli, 49, who lived in one of the four apartments at the Leyden Street house, had been missing for about two months. She was last seen Nov. 8, when she left work at Cranberry Hospice in nearby Kingston.

A security guard at an Atlantic City hotel recognized Cardarelli and called police, Plymouth District Attorney Michael Sullivan said. Prosecutors had suspected Cardarelli, who had a history of gambling, might head to Atlantic City and notified the casinos that he was wanted for murder in Massachusetts, Sullivan said. "We knew he had been there" before, Sullivan said. Cardarelli, a former Waltham Chemical employee, had last been seen Dec. 10 in Barefoot Bay, where his mother lives.

Sullivan said Cardarelli probably will be returned to Massachusetts tomorrow. A State Police trooper and a Plymouth detective were en route to Atlantic City to pick him up last night. (AP).