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Death notices for Darienites, immediate relatives and others of interest to town residents
Barbara Virginia Doyle McMahon, 91, of Essex, died July 15, 2020. She was a former resident of Old Lyme and Darien. Barbara was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Frank and Virginia Doyle. She was a graduate of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights and Smith College. Immediately after graduating from Smith, she married James McMahon of Brooklyn, whom she had met at dancing school.
Priscilla E. Gerbasi, a resident of Fairfield and previously a longtime resident of Westport and Darien, passed away on Tuesday, July 7 at Bridgeport Hospital. Born in Stamford on July 14, 1935, she was the daughter of Joseph G. Lupinacci and Yolanda V. Lupinacci of Darien. Priscilla was raised in Stamford and Darien, and graduated from Stamford High School. She was the oldest of four sisters and raised her family in Darien with her husband John P. Gerbasi. She volunteered at her two sons’ schools and in their sports activities over the years in Darien, and worked successfully in several positions in program management for the Baldridge Reading Group in Greenwich and Beldoch Industries in Norwalk.
Susan Widmann Sinclair, 88, passed away at her home in Darien on July 5, 2020. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1932, and her family moved to Darien two years later. After attending Hindley School and the Thomas School in Rowayton she earned a teaching degree at the National College of Education in Chicago. Upon graduation, she taught kindergarten at the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and later at the Brunswick School in Greenwich. While raising her own family in Darien, she spent many years volunteering in the town’s public school libraries.
Don MacKenzie, a former Darien resident, passed away after suffering a heart attack in Vail, Colorado over the 4th of July weekend. He was was born on Jan. 4, 1963 in Darien to the late Warren Gair MacKenzie and the late Phoebe Connor MacKenzie. Don was educated at Principia High School in St. Louis and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Norman Arthur Pierce of Darien passed away of natural causes on July 1, 2020. He was 85. Born Jan. 1, 1935 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Arthur and Mary Pierce, Norman was a longtime resident of Darien after moving to Connecticut in the early 1950s. After graduating from the Rhode Island School for the Deaf, Norman earned his high school diploma from Darien High School in 1957.
Charles Ferris “Chick” Scribner, a lifelong resident of Darien, died peacefully at his home on Saturday, June 27. He was 96. Born March 14, 1924 in Darien, he was the son of the late Harold Blaine and Alice Lee Scribner. Chick attended Darien Public Schools and graduated from Darien High School in 1942. He then served for three years in the U.S. Army in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.
Edward Davidson “David” Humphrey died peacefully on Friday, June 26, 2020 at Mercy Hospital. He was 44. Loving husband of Shannon; dearest father of Cooper, Layne and Bella; son of Susan Rouse Hall (Steve) and Stephen Humphrey (Mary Lou); brother of Scott Humphrey (Courtney) of Cincinnati, OH, Brian Humphrey (Tucker) of Boulder, CO and Elizabeth Coppola (David) of Boston, MA. Uncle to nine nieces and nephews. David was born in Darien on July 21, 1975.
Greda Ann (Fogelberg) DiSilvestro of Stratford, formerly of Darien, passed away peacefully at the age of 90 on Saturday, June 20. She was the wife of the late Louis DiSilvestro and the daughter of the late Svante and Mildred (Clark) Fogelberg. She was predeceased by her two brothers, Kurt and Henrik Fogelberg. Greda was born in Panama and raised in Liberty, Missouri. She was a graduate of the University of Connecticut, with a major in home economics.
Donald R. Iodice, 81, passed away on June 18 at home in Vero Beach, Florida. Don was born in Bridgeport, to Palma and Donato Iodice. His legacy is one of a deep love of and commitment to family and friends, lifelong learning, many leadership roles throughout his life, and as a teacher and mentor to many. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy. After being an owner of Kings Highway Pharmacy in Darien, he changed direction and received his J.D. from St John’s Law School.
Andrew R. Borghi, 59, of Darien, passed away on Saturday, June 13, 2020. He was born in Lansing, Michigan on Nov. 30, 1960. Andrew was a graduate of Rippowam High School, Stamford, Class of 1979. He was a custom home builder in lower Fairfield and Westchester counties.
Walter Lewis Burrows, Jr., 86, formerly of East Norwalk, passed away on April 17, 2020 in Wilton Meadows Health Care Center. Born Oct. 26, 1933, to Walter L. Burrows, Sr., an antiques dealer, and Viola A. (Hallett) Burrows an artist and interior designer, in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Walter was predeceased by a sister, Natalie, in 2001. The family moved to Darien early in Walter’s life.
Jean Anderson Rittenhouse Stouter passed away on April 5, 2020 at the Western Rehabilitation Care Center in Danbury. June 15 would have been the celebration of her 93rd birthday. She was born Jean Sylvia Anderson in Darien and was the eldest daughter of the famed Prohibition Era Darien police officer known as “the Lone Wolf of the Boston Post Road.” June 15, 2020, would have been the celebration of her 93rd birthday. Despite being born legally deaf and suffering from multiple sclerosis, Jean went on to defy all the odds with her indomitable spirit.
Robert “Bob” Rockwell Cole of Westwood, Massachusetts and Little Compton, Rhode Island passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at the age of 84. He grew up in Upper Montclair, New Jersey and was the son of both the late John Rockwell Cole and Margaret Buehler Cole. Bob attended Mount Hebron Elementary and Junior High School. He went on to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1954. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in finance from Brown University in 1958 and from Columbia with an MBA in 1961.
Thomas M. O’Malley, born and raised in Darien, passed away June 6, 2020.He was 54. He was born in Stamford on June 26, 1965 to James and Patricia O’Malley. Tom graduated Darien High School in 1984 where he was an outstanding athlete playing on the football and baseball teams. He went on to play football on a full scholarship at Florida State University, followed by a short time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom then had a career in the financial services and healthcare industry. He is survived by his father, James; daughters, Kelly and Riley; and their mother, Melanie O’Malley; brother, Seamus (Lynn); and sisters, Patricia Bell (John) and Erin Mikos (John).
Robert A. Deverill, a longtime resident of Keene, New Hampshire passed away Saturday June 13, 2020 from complications of COPD with his daughters by his side. He was 74. Born in Stamford on Jan. 22, 1946, he was the middle son of Dorothy Bouton Deverill and William John Deverill III. Robert graduated from Darien High School in 1965 and attended Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts.
Margie “Bunny” Campbell, a former Darien resident, passed away on May 4 at the age of 98. Born in Detroit,, she was the eldest of three children of Margie and William Gilbert Livingston. She attended Connecticut College, graduating in 1943. During World War II, she worked for Remington Arms in Bridgeport. While in college she met her future husband, Stafford Campbell.