Obituaries

WEST CORNWALL —John Franklin Green died Nov. 2, 2023, in New York after a series of health setbacks early in 2023.

John was born on June 2, 1941, in Sutherland, Virginia, to Frank and Mildred Green.

SALISBURY — Edith M. (Weir) (MacNeil) Blodgett, age 99, died on Oct. 21, 2023, at Noble Horizons. 

She was the widow of Edwin R. MacNiel, and of Alan H. Blodgett.

Born in Ellington, Connecticut, Jan. 27, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Bertha (Hazelton) and Irving H. Weir.

SALISBURY — Richard Wardell passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 21, 2023. 

Richard was born on Sept. 18, 1933, in Hamden Connecticut to Loretta and Arthur Wardell, and he grew up in the New Haven area. 

VERBANK — Jane Cole Geisler was born June 20, 1923, and grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland. 

Judy Mellecker Parker died peacefully in Sharon Hospital on Aug. 16, 2023.  She was born in Clinton, Iowa, on Oct. 7, 1939.  She married Robert Andrew Parker, the well-known artist and musician, in 1992 and they lived in West Cornwall.   She managed the accounts and the household and drove Bob around when his eyesight was failing.

MILLERTON — Jon Haines Barrett, 81, a lifelong resident of the Town of North East, passed away Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, at his home. 

Jon was born Feb. 23, 1942, in Sharon. He was the son of the late Harold Haines and Claire (Schwab) Barrett. 

HARPSWELL, Me. — Karin Marie Zetterstrom was born on Feb. 27, 1940, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and grew up in Canaan, Connecticut, the first daughter of Olle and Martha Zetterstrom, both natives of Sweden. Younger brother Tom and sister Ingrid were born several years later.

SHARON — Evelyn B. Tompkins, 92, of Sharon, peacefully passed away on Oct. 11, 2023, at Geer Nursing Facility.

Evelyn was born May 26, 1931, in Sharon, to David and Martha Boge. Shortly after her birth, during the Great Depression, the family returned to Norway where she lived until she was 7.