The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

June 14, 1990

Publication:

The Republicani

Location:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Thursday, June 14, 1990

Page:

20

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fr 52 UNION NEWS THURSDAY JUNE 14 1990 Matthys Limbach was critically injured in auto accident Matthys Limbach 65 of 6 Dut ton St Indian Orchard section of Springfield retired owner of the former Matthys Volkswagen Re pair shop died Tuesday in Bays tate Medical Center Limbach had been critically in jured in a car accident June 1 when his vehicle veered off the road at the intersection of Sewell and East streets in Ludlow and crashed into a pole He owned Matthys Volkswagen Repair shop for 16 years and re tired in 1981 Born in Haarlem Holland he served in the Dutch Army during World War II He came to this country in 1960 and settled in In dian Orchard He was a communicant of Church Jr He leaves his wife the former Use Saegaert three brothers Joop Wim and Chris all of Hol 5 land The Netherlands and three 4 nephews The funeral will be Saturday morning at the Ratell uneral Home and in the church with buri al at the convenience of the fami ly ly Calling hours will be riday af Sternoon and evening Memorial contributions may be made to Baystate Medical Cen Trauma Unit Chestnut Street Springfield 01199 Robert Snow operated airport valet parking GRANBY Conn Robert Snow 67 of 11 Broad Hill Road West Granby a former 17 year employee of the Airport Parking Co of America died Wednesday atJiome He had also operated the Air Sport Valet Parking Co in Windsor tLocks Born in Iron Mountain Mich he shad lived in Windsor Locks before amoving to West Granby 40 years He was an Army Air orcesveteran of World War II servingin rance England and Ger many He was a former Granby 4 leader and a member of the for mer Bradley ield Kiwanas Club the Rockville Elks Lodge He leaves his wife the former Edna Prattson a daughter Ju (aJianne Graham of West Granby Jthree brothers Alan and Roy of Wash and Lorton of Lynnwood Wash two sisters Other obituaries on Page 51 Steven Pringle JOHNSON Vt Steven Pringle 22 of Johnson a student at Johnson State College died June 8 of injuries he suffered in a fire at his home He was also em ployed as a landscaper in the Stowe area Born in Burlington Vt he had lived in Essex Vt be fore attending school in Johnson He enjoyed playing hockey and skiing and outdoor activities He had also been a member of the leadership corps of Camp Belknap in Wolfeboro He leaves his par ents Jon and Susan (Taggart) Pringle three brothers including his twin Scott with whom he lived and Colin and Greg of Essex his grandparents Howard and Ida Taggart of Concord NH and Mildred and Albert Pringle of Norwich Conn The funeral was Monday at Johnson State College A private graveside service was Tuesday in Mountain View Ceme tery Essex The Mountain View uneral Home Essex Junction was in charge Memorial contribu tions may be made to the Jon Ste ven Pringle Memorial Scholarship und in care of the Essex Junc tion Education Center 2 Educa tion Drive Essex Junction Vt 05452 Alice Belliveau Milligan ST PETERSBURG la Alice (Leger) Belliveau Milli gan 85 of 9337 Treasure Lane and Osterville Mass died Tues day in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyan nis Mass She was a retired office manager with the LO Nichols Co in Newton Mass Born in Somers Conn she lived in Somersville Conn until 1929 She lived in Waltham Mass until 1959 and moved to St Petersburg Her first husband Joseph Belliveau died in 1980 She leaves her second hus band George Milligan a son Don ald Belliveau of Buzzards Bay two sisters Denise Steppe of Rockville Conn and Antoinette Underwood of Enfield Conn five grandchildren and two great grandchildren The funeral will be riday morning at Somers uner al Home and in All Saints Church Burial will be Saturday at Calvary Cemetery Calling hours are this evening DORIS ESTELLE SHAVER a 11 Doris Shaver descendent of early settlers Doris Estelle (Sanders) Shaver 51 of 34 Parkerview St Spring field an 18 year security guard at Clothing Store in Spring field died Monday in Baystate Medical Center She was a descendent of one of the earliest black families to settle in the Springfield area She was a lifelong resident of Springfield and graduated from the former Springfield Trade Hgh School She was a member of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church a vice president of its lower Club and member of its Board of Ushers She was also a member of the amily Affair Social Club She leaves her husband Charles Edward Shaver a son Charles Ed ward Jr of Syracuse NY a daughter Cleonia Ann Johnson of Springfield a brother Leroy of Boston five sisters Elizabeth Moore Delores Nichols and Jean Nixon all of Springfield anchon Mason of Westborough and Julie Simmons of Philadelphia and sev eral nieces and nephews The funeral will be riday morning at the Henderson uneral Home with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Calling hours are this afternoon and evening Dr Samuel Tarnower neurologist psychiatrist Martha Johnson of Round Lake Ill and Thelma Wagner of Prine ville Ore and a grandson He wasalso the father of the late RobertJ Snow TiC The funeral will be riday morning at the Windsor Locks neral Home and in St Church with burial in St Calling hours are this afternoon and evening Memorial contributions may be made to the Granby Little League in care of Robert Maher 13 Ar chie Lane Granby Conn 06035 Alice Belliveau Milligan ST PETERSBURG la Alice (Leger) Belliveau Milli gan 85 of 9337 Treasure Laneand Osterville Mass died Tues day in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyan nis Mass She was a retired office manager with the LO Nichols Co in Newton Mass Born in Somers Conn she lived in Somersville Conn until 1929 She lived in Waltham Mass until 1959 and moved to St Petersburg Her firsthusband Joseph Belliveau died in '1980 She leaves her second hus band George Milligan a son Don ald Belliveau of Buzzards Bay sisters Denise Steppe ofRockville Conn and Antoinette 'Underwood of Enfield Conn fivegrandchildren and two great grandchildren The funeral will be riday morning at Somers uner eal Home and in All Saints Church Burial will be Saturday at Calvary 'Cemetery Calling hours are this 1 evening Roland Gauthier BRIMIELD Roland Gauthier 63 of Hollow Road a Retired self employed home build ver died Wednesday in Wing Me morial Hospital Palmer He re tired in 1977 He was born in Holyoke and was an Army veteran of World War II He was a mem ber of the Wales Baptist Church the Veterans of oreign WarsPost in Wales American Legion Post 130 of Palmer and the Wood Carvers Association He leaves hiswife the former Joyce Clark a Michael of Glenwood Springs Colo three daughters Colleen Savage and Molly Letendre of 3 Wales and Jo Ellen Bacon of Palmer a brother Armand of Milton NH three sisters Blanche Brenahan of Easthamp ton Rita Messier of South Hadleyand Delia Semme of Palm Bay la and six grandchildren A me ynorial service will be Thursday jvening in the church Beers Story uneral Home Palmer is in a charge There are no calling hours Memorial contributions may be made to the Deacons und of Wales PITTSIELD Dr Samuel Tarnower 82 of 102 Spadina Parkway neurologist and psychia trist died Wednesday at home He was an instuctor in neurolo gy and psychiatry at Albany Medi cal College from 1939 He also had a private practice in the two fields in Pittsfield from 1936 He was an attending neurologist and psychiatrist at Berkshire Med ical Center from 1936 to 1988 in troducing the first electroencepha lography unit to the hospital in 1946 and organizing the first EEG laboratory or 21 years he was also phys ician in charge of the state alco holism clinic at the hospital He had published work in New England Journal of Medicine Born in New York City he gra duated from Syracuse University in 1929 and New York Medical College in 1933 He served his in tership at lower Hospital in New York City in from 1933 to 1934 Mildred Mercier 93 was editor librarian EAST LONGMEADOW Mildred Mercier 93 of 305 Maple Road retired librarian died Wednesday in a local nursing home She was also retired from the Merriam Co where she was editor in charge of dictionary il lustrations Born in Lima Ohio she attend ed local schools She received a bachelor of education degree from the University of Ohio a bachelor of library science degree from Co lumbia University and a degree from Western Reserve Uni versity She was a long time member of the South Congregational Church A memorial service will be held Saturday morning in South Church Chapel with burial in Highland Cemetery Norwood There are no calling hours The Dickinson Streeter uneral Home is 'in charge Memorial contributions may be made to the church Marie Senecal CHICOPEE Marie (Cote) Senecal 96 formerly of 37 Thad deus St died Tuesday in a local nursing home Born in Sherbrooke Canada she lived most of her life in Chicopee Her husband Adelard Senecal died in 1975 She leaves a son Roland Senecal of Chicopee a daughter Annette Gi guere of Chicopee 20 grandchil dren 66 great grandchildren and 39 great great grandchildren The funeral will be Saturday morning at Tylunas uneral Home with burial in airview Cemetery Calling hours will be riday after noon and evening During World War II he served as a major in the 'Army and served in several military hosptials He later moved to Pittsfield He was a member of the Ameri can Medical Center a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical So ciety and a member of several medical societies in his fields He leaves his wife of 52 years the former Selma Ziskind two daughters Jain Tarnower of Bos ton and Elizabeth Selbowitz of Pittsfield and two grandsons There will be no calling hours Wellington uneral Home is in charge Memorial contributions may be made to Berkshire Medical Cen ter Marcel A Desmarais PALMER Marcel A Des marais 66 of Beacon Drive a for mer 20 year welder for the Zero Manufacturing Co died Wednes day in Wing Memorial Hospital Born in Manchester NH he had lived in Palmer most of his life and was an Army veteran of World War II He was a communi cant of St Church and a member of American Legion Post 130 He leaves his wife the for mer Mabel Thomas four daugh ters Bonnie Dacosta of Ludlow Barbara Lovell of Monson Jac queline Johnson and Pamela Des marais of Springfield three broth ers Vital Leo and Roger all of Three Rivers a sister Yvette Denoncort of Monson 13 grand children and a great grandchil dren A private funeral will be riday at the Beers Story neral Home and in the church with burial in Oak Knoll Ceme tery There are no calling hours Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer So ciety 57 Suffolk St Holyoke 01040 Wildlife rescuers face eviction in Lyme EAST LYME Conn (AP) family squabble is threatening to force a husband and wife wildlife rescue group to choose between relocating or destroying 200 or phaned or injured animals the couple said Robert and Gloria Salvatore directors of the North American Wildlife Association were notified last week that they must leave the two bedroom house on a rural road by Tuesday The landlord Gloria Salva mother Waltina Greene has decided to sell the house and one acre lot Robert Salvatore said his moth er in law is evicting the couple be cause she disapproves of their life style and vocation armer accused of murder in mercy death ONEIDA NY (AP) A fanner was ordered held without bail after a judge heard testimony that the man suffocated his older brother in a mercy killing Oneida City Court Judge Anth ony Eppolito made his ruling Tuesday night after hearing testi mony from an assistant medical examiner and two state police in vestigators The farmer will be held pending grand jury action Investigator Robert Killough Conn hospital cleared in death HARTORD (AP) The state Department of Consumer Protec tion has cleared Hartford Hospital of any negligence or wrongdoing in the death of a 29 year old anes thesiologist who died in April from a self injected drug overdose find any negligence or lack of control on the part of the William Ward director of the drug con trol division said Tuesday On April 25 David Leyda a doc tor at the hospital took an over dose of fentanyl a potent and wi dely used painkiller The state medical office later ruled the death accidental and hospital officials concluded that Leyda had been abusing the drug The Department of Consumer Protection found no reason to crit icize the system of dis pensing drugs to doctors for use on patients investigation revealed the system was working the way it should Ward said are ways drugs can be diverted in any system no matter how tight it is Medical officials have free access to the drugs and the sys tem can only prevent diversion to a certain After death hospital of ficials pointed out that fentanyl abuse is somewhat common and 18 other anesthesiologists across the country have died from over doses of the drug in the past three years and an undercover investigator testified that Delbert Ward 59 of Stockbridge confessed to suffocat ing his brother William Ward 64 on June 6 Ward one of four brothers who live in the rural town of Stock bridge about 25 miles southeast of Syracuse is charged with second degree murder in his death statement to police which was used as the basis for the charge was entered into evi dence but Eppolito ruled it was closed to the public Onondaga County Assistant Medical Examiner Humphrey Germaniuk told the judge he found a benign tumor the size of a golf ball in neck and others in his kidney and prostate that could have been cancerous He say whether he discovered any terminal illness Germaniuk said he ruled Wil liam death a homicide after state police informed him of Delbert confession attorney Ralph A Cog netti said Germaniuk found a cause of death to match the con fession created cause of death to coincide with the Cognetti charged ollowing the hearing he said he plans to hire an independent doctor to conduct an autopsy and a private investigator Earlier Tuesday Stockbridge Town Supervisor Charles Young gave District Attorney Donald Cerio Jr petitions containing 880 signatures from local residents asking for a second autopsy Masked gunman kills Silician restaurateur PALERMO Sicily (AP) A masked gunman walked into a crowded restaurant artd killed the owner police reported The assailant Tuesday night hit Pietro Rosselli 59 with pistol fire killing him instantly police said The gunman escaped in a motor bike Police said they had no motive for the shooting Coast Guard searches for man overboard BOSTON (AP) US Coast Guard ships searched yesterday for a man who apparently fell overboard from a motorboat in Buzzards Bay A fishing vessel spotted the man going overboard about 12:55 pm said Coast Guard Seaman Steve Aitkins in Boston The man who was not immediately identified was wearing gray shorts and was thought to be about 25 years old The man and three other people were on a 22 foot motorboat in the bay off Scraggy Neck about 4 miles north of the cruise liner Ber muda Star which ran aground Sunday About 45 minutes later another fishing vessel using a fish spotting device located a large object floating about six feet from the bottom of the bay A volunteer diver dove to see if it was the man but found nothing Aitkins said Aitkins said a Coast Guard heli copter and several cutters includ ing some vessels involved in the Bermuda Star cleanup were dis patched to search for the man A diving rescue team was also en route ito the scene Aitkins said With weak currents and relati vely warm temperatures in the bay chances were good that the man coulfl survive up to seven hours in the water Aitkins said Black chaplain cleared of police interference DANBURY AP) A judge has dismissed the case of a airfield Hills Hospital chaplain charged with interfering with po lice but Hot before issuing a warn ing to the Rev Melvinia Parker Parkeif was arrested May 12 by a hospital security officer as she walked Queen Street in Newtown near the entrance to the state mental health hospital When jthe officer who was look ing missing patients asked Parker to identify herself she re fused according to Attor ney Walter lanagan lanagan said that the 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