Irene W. Hanson February 16, 1933 – April 22, 2018 Ossipee, NH – Irene (Wilkins) Hanson, 85 of Huckins Street, Center Ossipee, NH passed away Sunday, April 22, 2018 at the Mountain View Community, Ossipee, NH where she had resided for the past four years. She was born February 16, 1933 at Dorrs Corner, Center Ossipee, NH, the daughter of Leslie and Geraldine (Abbott) Wilkins. Irene was a graduate of Spaulding High School and...

Epsom, NH   Elbridge G. Rines, 87, passed away Friday, April 20, 2018 at his home in Epsom, NH. He was born September 2, 1930 in Center Ossipee, NH the son of the late Harlan J. and Ruth (Snow) Rines. He grew up in the Wolfeboro, NH area, and after graduating from Brewster Academy in 1948, he attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME where he earned a BA in Physics in 1953. Later that year while working for...

  Ossipee Armando D. Graziano, 82, passed away Friday, April 20, 2018 at the Mountain View Community, Ossipee, NH. He was born September 8, 1935 in Boston, MA, the son of the late Domenic and Rose (Costanza) Graziano.  He had lived in Somerville, MA for many years moving to the Mountain View Community three years ago. Armando had worked for the Schraff’s Candy Company as a candy maker...

Obituary for Harold H. Wiggin Harold Hardy Wiggin, known fondly as “Tad” or “Uncle Haddy” to friends and family, died on Thursday, April 19, 2018, one day after his 90th birthday. Harold was the youngest child born to Roscoe and Nellie Wiggin in Tamworth, NH in 1928 and attended local schools during the Great Depression. The family raised their own livestock and vegetables, a practice Harold continued his entire life. He was a...

Bernard A. Batson, 98   “Blessed is he who trusts in the LORD” Proverbs 16:20 WOLFEBORO – Bernard (Bernie) Batson passed from this life into the next on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at Mountain View Community in Ossipee, NH during the early morning hours. Bernie was born in Massac County, Illinois to Robert and Alta (Cagle) Batson on January 26, 1920.  He was the eldest of their...

Ossipee, NH   Miyoko Higa Cumberland, longtime resident of Ossipee, NH formerly of Rochester, NH passed away quietly at home, surrounded by her family, on April 10th, 2018 at the age of 77. Born on August 9, 1940 in Okinawa, Japan, Miyoko met and subsequently married American Lind Levi Cumberland. Moving to the United States in 1963, Miyoko became a Navy wife, who dedicated herself to raising...

Diana Lee (Wiggin) Downs, 72, passed away Monday, April 9, 2018 in North Conway, N.H., at the Merriman House with her daughter, Wendy, by her side. Diana had many illnesses. Diana is survived by two brothers, Kenneth Wiggin and his wife, Jeanette of Albany, N.H.; and Theodore Wiggin of Concord, N.H.; two sisters, Charlotte Linde of Glen, N.H.; and Maureen Smith and husband, James, of Conway, N.H.; one daughter, Wendy Gale and husband, James, of Glen; one son,...

Wolfeboro, NH Lawrence Leslie Smart, 65 of Varney Road, passed away unexpectedly Thursday, April 5, 2018 at the West Roxbury Veteran’s Hospital, West Roxbury, MA, with his children by his side. Larry was born August 18, 1952 in Wolfeboro, NH the son of Martha Ann (Shannon) Smart and Lawrence Arthur Smart.  He was a 1970 graduate of Kingswood Regional High School, Wolfeboro, NH.  Larry was a proud Marine Corps Veteran, who...

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame   Peter G. Brown passed away on April 3, 2018 at the age of 72.  Peter was born in New York City on April 12th, 1945 to Rollins Brown and Lillian (Rafson) Brown. The family quickly relocated to his ancestral home in Wakefield,...

Silver Lake, NH   Christopher “Chris” Alan Lyman, aged 49, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 surrounded by family, friends, and his loving girlfriend Crystal Barrows.  Chris was born July 8, 1968 in Wolfeboro, N.H. and grew up and spent his entire life in Silver Lake, N.H. Chris is survived by his mother, Eleanor Lyman of Silver Lake, N.H.; his sister Kim Feinstein and her husband...