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Death notices for Darienites, immediate relatives and others of interest to town residents
James Morgan Abbots died on July 17, 2022 at 1:42 p.m., due to complications from Type 2 Diabetes and other complications. He was 74. Jim was born in Danville, VA on August 13, 1947. Jim graduated from Darien High School in 1965 and was a multilingual graduate in 1969 of the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He could speak French, Vietnamese, German, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese and also graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history.
After a long and full life, Carol Norma Lange Davis died peacefully at home surrounded by her daughters. She was 90 years old and lived in Norwalk. Carol was born on Nov. 5, 1931 in New York City. Carol received an undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College.
Howard J, Fenn Jr., “Biff”, passed away on July 9, 2022, in Southbury after a long illness. He was born and raised in Darien, son of Lorraine K Fenn, and Howard J Fenn, Sr. Biff was a veteran of many local theater productions, both as actor and director. A big personality with a big sense of humor, his love of dogs and stray cats was legendary. He is survived by his wife, Carol Berry Fenn; his sisters, Penny Kirchofer, Betsey Koehler and Kelley Carter, and their spouses; his indispensable friend, George Kenney; six nephews, three great-nephews, and one great-niece. He will be greatly missed.
John (“Jack”) Schultz Jr. , 28, of Washington, D.C., and formerly of Darien, passed away July 20, 2022 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Jack was the son of John Schultz Sr. and Nancy (nee Nesslar) Schultz of Haverford, Pennsylvania. He worked for Carahsoft Technologies in Reston, Virginia. Jack graduated with a degree in labor and employment relations from Pennsylvania State University, where he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity. He was a 2012 graduate of Radnor High School.
Janice (Anderson) Brissette, 94, passed away on July 21 at Stamford Hospital. The only child of the late Loretta and William Anderson, she was born in Rockford, Illinois on June 9, 1928, and grew up in a close-knit Swedish American community. Jan graduated in 1945 from Rockford High School, where she met the love of her life, Richard Stacey Brissette. They were married on June 24, 1950 and moved to Massachusetts, where Dick attended college. Their first child, William, was born in Lowell, and their next two children, John and Roberta (Robin) were born in Westwood, New Jersey, as Dick began his career with Union Carbide.
Richard A. Alicandro, a lifelong resident of Darien, passed away on Thursday, July 28, at Stamford Hospital. He was 84. Richard was the youngest of 10 children, born on May 26, 1938, to the late Josephine and Bernardino Alicandro. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Carole (Olsson) Alicandro; his a son, Richard Jr. (Rick), and Rick’s wife, Carolyn; and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Victoria. He is also survived by two sisters, Ida Henry and Lee Heitz, both of whom reside in Florida.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tom J. Geraghty on June 26 from complications of kidney cancer. He was 79. Tom was born on Oct. 19, 1942 in Jersey City, New Jersey, the oldest of seven children. During his youth, his family moved to Cleveland and afterward ended up in Palatine, Illinois.
Luke Walter Kostrzewski, formerly of Darien, passed away unexpectedly on July 19 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 25. Luke was born on Nov. 26, 1996 in Stamford and was a graduate of Darien High School, Class of 2015. He went on to graduate from the College of Charleston in 2021 and was looking forward to continuing his education.
John Frederick Sutton, of Scarborough, Maine, died peacefully at home on July 29, 2022. Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1933 to the Rev. Fred Perry Sutton and Dorothy Auten Sutton, John devoted his life to education, service, his church, and his family. He walked this earth with quiet dignity and left his imprint on so many he met along the way. He will be greatly missed. John attended Haddonfield Friends School in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and after moving to Connecticut, Hopkins Grammar School (now Hopkins School) in New Haven, where he graduated in 1951.
Martha Cherry (“Martie”) Fiske, a pioneering teacher and spirit, died in her Weston home on July 21, 2022, with her husband at her side. She was 86. She was born in Albany, New York, on Jan. 16, 1936, the daughter of Harold Schwarz Cherry and Catherine Field Cherry. She grew up in Darien, where she met her future husband, John Adams Fiske, in seventh grade.
James Ryan Morrison died Nov. 14, 2021 in Spokane, Washington, with son Jameson and carers Samantha and Syvanna at his side. It was one day after his 97th birthday and three nights after polishing off a whopping great slab of apple pie before going to sleep. He was born Nov. 13, 1924 in Pawling, New York during the Coolidge Administration.
Inge Doris Lorenz (Riedelsberger), the beloved wife of Jürgen Hans Lorenz, died in Fort Myers, Florida on July 7, 2022. She was 80. They were married for 54 years. Inge was born in 1942 in Fuchshöhe, East Prussia. Her family moved westward and settled in Osnabrück, Germany where Inge completed her education and began work as a paralegal.
With deepest sorrow we announce that our son, Garrett William Finley, of Portland, Maine, died on June 15, 2022. He was 37. Garrett was born Nov. 4, 1984 in New York City and spent most of his childhood in Darien. He graduated from Oxford Academy in Westbrook, where he developed his love of photography and continued his love of music.
Judith (Judy) Pittman Tibbetts, a nearly 70-year resident of Darien, has recently passed. Born in Nebraska to the late Beatrice and Alfred Pittman, and raised in Chicago and Boston, Judy moved to Darien in the early 1950s after college (Principia) and marriage. She and her husband, Paul, and their two sons, Alfred and John, lived in a home they built in Delafield Island. They were also founding members of the Christian Science Church in Darien on the corner of the Post Road and Salt Box Lane. While her children were still quite young, Judy discovered a knack for selling real estate, arranging two sales before deciding to go into the business.
Louise “Scottie” Peebles Winter of Norwalk passed away peacefully on July 7. She was 94. Born in Stamford in January 1928 to the late Charles and Agnes Macdonald Peebles, who had recently immigrated from their native Scotland, Louise was raised in Stamford with her brother John and sister Millicent, where she graduated Stamford High School in 1945. In 1949, she earned her bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate at Danbury State Teachers College, now Western Connecticut State University. Upon graduation, Louise taught elementary school in Darien for many years inclusive of a break while her children were young, through her retirement in 1992.
It is with great sadness and much love that the family of Pia DeLuca, 82, announces her peaceful passing on July 9, 2022. Pia was born on Jan. 24, 1940 to the late Augusto and Lucia Rizzi D’Urso in Scauri, a picturesque seaside village in Minturno, Italy. Pia immigrated to America in 1958 on the ocean liner Cristoforo Colombo. She reunited with her family on Spruce Street on Stamford’s West Side.