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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.
Robert Lovegrove passed away peacefully at home on July 31, 2020. Born in Flint, Michigan Oct. 16, 1934 to George Roy Lovegrove and Marie (Long) Lovegrove. As a teenager, he worked on a farm and the assembly line for trucks at General Motors. He graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1959 where he received the “Intern of the Year” award the following year.
Gilbert Alexandre, a longtime resident of Darien, died peacefully Sunday morning Aug. 2, 2020. He was 85. While his passing is a sad day for us all Gil had a kind and generous soul who lived his life to the fullest leaving the fondest of memories for everyone who knew him. Gil was born in Luxembourg May 26, 1935.
Beverly Covert, 91, of Peterborough, New Hampshire, formerly of Rindge, New Hampshire and Darien, died peacefully on July 17, 2020 following a brief illness. She was 91. Beverly was born on Feb. 21, 1929 in Richmond, Indiana. She grew up in Richmond, and New Paris, Ohio. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. After college, she moved to New York City to work at Price Waterhouse. It was there that she met her future husband, Theodore Covert (1930-2018). They were married in 1960 and settled in Darien, where they raised their family.
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.
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.