Obituaries

Anna Mazabras, 80, Former Sexton at St Paul’s Church, Never Lost Her Irish Brogue

Ann Hosted, 83, Former Darien Resident, Active Hospice Volunteer, Founded Pet Therapy Program

Jane Sanford Ziegler, 94, Longtime Town Resident, Active Member of Noroton Presbyterian Church

Charles O’Rourke, Former Member of St Thomas Church in Darien

Marie Wootton, 98, School Volunteer, Horsewoman Who Helped Run a Colorado Ranch, Loved Painting

Marjorie Canto, 86, DHS Class of 1950, Lifelong Darien Resident

Phyllis Colin, 87, Loved Swimming, Traveled to All 7 Continents, Former Darien Resident

Carol Studley, 83, Taught in Darien Schools, Three-Sport Athlete in High School

Carolyn Schoonmaker, Active in Community Affairs, Chaired Darien Republican Town Committee

Donald Smith, 89, Former Darien Registrar of Voters, Founded Therapy Dog Programs

Gertrude Graham, 80, Dancer, Tokeneke School Teacher, Member of Christian Science Church in Darien

Manuel Perez, 79, Avid Photographer, Produced ‘Darien Library: The Great Good Place’

Patricia Pohlmann, 83, Darien Realtor, Co-Founder of YMCA Nursery School, Active in Noroton Presbyterian Church

Donald Cavett, 85, Loved Bagpipes, Irish Music, Recycling, Protecting Environment

Sally Clements, 85, Retired Real Estate Agent, Loved Horses, Golf, Tennis

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Death notices for Darienites, immediate relatives and others of interest to town residents

Surrounded by family, Anna Bella Quigley Mazabras passed away peacefully on April 23 at her home just one day after her 80th birthday in Darien. Born on April 22, 1939 in Derry, Northern Ireland, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Quigley. Anna left Ireland in 1963 to come to New Canaan to work as a nanny before marrying her husband, Roger Louis Mazabras in 1966. Anna and Roger moved to Darien in 1968 and were employed by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as the sextons for almost 30 years.

Ann Meredith (Whaley) Hosted died peacefully on April 21 in Sarasota, Florida after a long battle with cancer. She was 83. Ann was born on Sept. 7, 1935, in Mansfield, Ohio. She grew up in Chatham, New Jersey, graduating from Chatham High School in 1953 as an honor student, varsity cheerleader and All-State field hockey player.

Jane Ziegler, a longtime resident of Darien, passed away on Friday, April 19, 2019 at Stamford Hospital. She was 94. Born on Dec. 28, 1924 in Cranford, New Jersey, she was the daughter of the late Harold Crooker and Prudence (Rindell) Sanford. Jane graduated from Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey and from Wellesley College in 1946.

Charles E. O’Rourke of Brookline, Massachusetts and formerly of New Canaan, passed away April 17. He graduated from Watertown High School and served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He also was a graduate of Boston College (class of 1951) and received a master’s degree from Brown University, and masters of business administration from Fordham University. Mr. O’Rourke was a former longtime employee of Union Carbide Corp., and Carbtrol, Inc. He was formerly a longtime resident of New Canaan, and was a member of the New Canaan Senior Men’s Club, American Chemical Society, and served as treasurer of CDA. — an obituary from the George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral Home

He was a longtime parishioner of St.

Marie Core Duffy Wootton died peacefully on April 11 in New Haven. She was 98. She was born in New Haven on June 25, 1920, the daughter of Marie Marsden Barron Duffy of Baltimore, Maryland, and William Core Duffy, MD, formerly of New Bern, North Carolina. She graduated from Prospect Hill School (now Hopkins) and Albertus Magnus College. She was predeceased by her husband, Philip Henry Wootton, Jr.

She and her husband lived in the New Canaan/Darien area for over 50 years.

Marjorie (Margie) Canto, a lifelong resident of Darien, passed away on Monday, April 15 at Stamford Hospital with her family by her side. She was 86. Born on Jan. 5, 1933 in Darien, she was the daughter of the late Louis and Mary Bruno Canto. Margie graduated from Darien High School, class of 1950.

Surrounded by family, Phyllis M. Colin, 87, succumbed to heart-related complications on April 3 at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport. She and her beloved husband, Robert, lived in Battery Park City in New York. They had resided in Darien from 1969 until 1994. During her years in Darien, Phyllis was very active in the YMCA, serving as a Red Cross volunteer life guard and swim teacher to both young children and adults.

Carol “Corky” Lindemann Studley, of Shalimar, Florida and East Orleans, Massachusetts passed away on April 7, 2019 at 83. Born in Warsaw, New York on July 18, 1935. She graduated from Hastings-on-Hudson High School in 1953, where as a three- sport athlete, she was inducted into The Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1957 with an education degree and was a member of Tri Delta sorority. Corky spent the summers of 1944 through 1959 at Camp Wono — now Cape Cod Sea Camps where she was a camper, counselor and head counselor.

Former Darien resident Carolyn Schoonmaker, passed away peacefully in Naples, Florida on the morning of April 2 with her two sons, Sam and Eric, by her side. In passing, she rejoins her beloved husband, Sam, who predeceased her. She is survived by two sisters, a stepsister, two sons, four grandchildren and numerous other family and friends. Carolyn was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the second daughter of Frederick and Carol Peters. A natural athlete, she grew up throwing and catching a baseball with the Yankees, who practiced in the park near her house.

Donald Paul Smith, former resident of Darien for 48 years and a town registrar of voters for 20 years, died peacefully in Maryland on April 3, 2019. Born July 24, 1930, he was husband of deceased Barbara (“Bobbie”) Smith and father of sons Don and Chris Smith of Chicago and Columbia, Maryland, both mid-1970s Darien High School graduates. He was best known for his retirement activities of founding therapy dog programs in Fairfield County to help comfort hospice and hospital patients. He also founded library reading programs to help challenged children who preferred reading aloud to his non-judgmental therapy dogs than classmates. — This obituary previously was published in the Darien Times

Gertrude J. (Gerrie) Graham, 80, of Norwalk passed away Tuesday, April 2 at the Brightview Assisted Living Center in Norwalk. Mrs. Graham was born Oct. 11, 1938 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of William and Josephine (Kaleta) Engle. She married Milton Russell Graham on June 13, 1959 at Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church in East Orange, New York.

Manuel Joseph Perez, the beloved husband of Janet Williams Shaw, passed away on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at the age of 79. He was born on Jan. 15, 1940 in Newburgh, New York, the son of Manuel and Madeline (Paolini) Perez. As a child, Manny loved books, reading, listening to stories on the radio and watching movies, which laid the foundation for his life’s work. On a Naval ROTC scholarship, Manny graduated from the University of Rochester in 1962 with a degree in clinical psychology.

Patricia Moll Pohlmann, 83, died peacefully, surrounded by family members, at Providence Point in Pittsburgh on March 30, 2019. Born in Chicago on Jan. 30, 1936, the daughter of the late Eugene and Helen Moll, she was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up, Pat was an outstanding swimmer in major competitions across the country including the U.S. Olympic Trials. She graduated from Indiana University in 1958 and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

It is with sorrow and sympathy that the Cavett family shares the peaceful passing of Donald Turpin Cavett on Thursday, March 28. Donald, 85 years old, was a longtime resident and employee of the Town of Darien. Don was born on May 12, 1933 in Lynn, Massachusetts to the late Edwin and Cornelia Cavett, and he spent his childhood years growing up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. After graduating from St. John’s Prep. of Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1951, he went on to receive his bachelor of science in Commerce from the University of Notre Dame, in 1955, and later pursued an MBA at Boston College.

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Sally G. Clements, 85, of Naples, Florida and formerly of Darien, passed away on March 24. Sally was born in New York City to Albert E. and Helen Y. Gessler on April 13, 1933. She graduated from Scarsdale High School and St. Lawrence University. Sally’s career in real estate and her love of horses, golf and tennis enabled her to make many lifelong friends.