Darien Obituaries September 2016

Alice Cooney, 92, Longtime Darien Resident, Former Teacher, Excelled at Needlepoint

Carlyn Legge Crane, 59, Former Darien Resident

Lee Colbath, 92, Longtime Darienite, Active in Noroton Presbyterian Church

Patricia Scott, 84, Former Darien Resident

Joan Davey, 84, Nurse, Red Cross Volunteer, Longtime Darien Resident

Helen Paparis, 99, of Darien, Mother of Two, Loved Cooking, Playing Piano

Peter Miller, 78, Army Intelligence Officer, Lawyer, Former Darien Resident

Preston McEwan, 84, Member of Noroton Heights Fire Dept and Senior Men’s Association

Margaret Robelen, 92, Painter, New Canaan Member of Woodway Country Club

Msgr Robert McCormick, Resident Chaplain at Convent of St. Birgitta

Mary Mulligan, 83, Irish Native, Longtime Darien Resident

Dorothy Spalding, 80, Mother, Nurse, Avid Sailor Who Always Lived Near the Sea

Audrey Dutcher, 99, Mother, Volunteer, Got Her Bachelor’s Degree at Age 80

Arthur Ward, 84, Former Darien Resident, ‘In Lieu of Flowers, Vote Democrat!’

Elisabetta Wolf, 89, Worked at Lorenti’s of Darien, Methodist Nursery School, Member of Darien Senior Center

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Alice Knotts Cooney, 92, of Darien and Waldoboro, Maine, died peacefully at her home in Waldoboro on Sept. 30, 2016. Born in Tacoma, Wash., on Nov. 17, 1923, she was the daughter of Gilbert Lloyd Knotts and Alice McCoy Knotts. She grew up in Portland and Falmouth, Maine and graduated from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She taught at the Knox School, Cooperstown, N.Y., Buckley Country Day, Great Neck, N.Y., and the Day School in New Haven.

Carlyn Elizabeth Legge Crane, 59, of Westbrook, died peacefully at home on Friday, Sept. 30. Born in Northfield, Vt., to William R. and Gail Price Legge, Carlyn spent her first 12 years in Norwalk and Darien before her family moved to Cumberland Foreside, Maine. A 1975 graduate of Greely High School in Cumberland, Carlyn earned a degree in accounting from Casco Bay College. She worked for many years in guest reception and as a night auditor at Holiday Inn Downtown Portland, and had long-term positions with the Greater Portland Convention and Visitors’ Bureau and various financial service companies.

Lee Arnold Colbath, 92, passed away peacefully at home Sept. 18 in Auburn, Maine. He was born Nov. 16, 1923 in Howland, Maine to Lee and Helen Colbath. Lee grew up during the Depression and, after graduating high school, served in the European Theater during WWII. He was a member of the 12th Armored Division “The Hellcats,” 7th U.S. Army and awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in battle.

Patricia Wilson Scott passed away peacefully on Sept. 26, 2016, in Naples, Fla. She was 84. Patty will be remembered by her friends and family for her genuine interest in other people, her sense of optimism and fairness, her wonderful laugh and sense of humor, her passion for racquet sports, international travel, entertaining, and her love of her extended family. Born to Fredrick and Ruth Wilson in Bronxville, New York on Feb. 1, 1932, she was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, John M. Scott, and first husband, Stanley R. Westberg.

Joan C. Davey, a Darien resident for 44 years, died Monday, Sept. 5. She was 84. She was born in Minnesota to C. Marie Helwig and Eugene D. Carstater in 1931 and attended Bucknell University and University of Minnesota. Joan spent her professional career caring for others as a registered nurse.

Helen Paparis, 99, of Darien passed away peacefully at Stamford Hospital surrounded by her loving family on Friday, Sept. 30. She was born in New York City on April 20, 1917 to the late George and Julia Damaskinos Barpar. Helen was a member of the Church of the Archangels of Stamford. She enjoyed playing piano and was an advocate of higher education.

Peter Putnam Miller of Rowayton passed away Sept. 26. He was 78. Peter was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of the late Robert and Delores Miller. Peter’s peripatetic life journey began in Fair Lawn, N.J., where he worked as a soda jerk and earned distinction as one of the last Americans to receive the Hog and Pork Production Merit Badge from the Boy Scouts of America. When he was 13 years old, Peter moved to Morocco with his parents and brother, David; there, his father worked as an engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Preston Wayne McEwan died on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at the age of 84 years old. He was the only child of the late Florence and Arthur McEwan of Middletown, N.Y. Preston was born in Oneonta, N.Y. on Jan. 13, 1932. He graduated from Walton High School, attended Hartwick College in Oneonta and graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Margaret McCulloch Robelen, 92, a New Canaan resident for over 57 years, died peacefully Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 at Norwalk Hospital. Born in Glasgow, Scotland on Oct. 31, 1923, she was the daughter of John and Winifred (Stephens) McCulloch. She was the widow of George A. Robelen and was also pre-deceased by her sister, Mary McCulloch Schiavo, and brother, Robert McCulloch.

Msgr. Robert F. McCormick, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of N.Y. and former pastor of St. Augustine’s Church in Ossining, died Sept. 23 at the Convent of St. Birgitta in Darien, where he was the resident chaplain for the past 19 years.

Mary Mulligan, a long time Darien resident, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 22 at her daughter’s house in Greenwich after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born the oldest of 10 children on May 13, 1933 in Kiltimagh County Mayo, Ireland to Patrick and Mary McDonagh. Mary immigrated to the United States in 1952. She worked as a nanny for a family in New York City and for several families in Darien.

Dorothy Spalding, 80, passed away, Sept. 14, 2016, at her home in Florida. She was born in Ardsley, N.Y., April 16, 1936 to Helen and Kenneth McPhee. Dorothy grew up in New York with a close family before moving with her husband, William Spalding, to Darien. She later settled in Rowayton, on Belle Island and Pine Point, for nearly forty years, with many summers shared with extended family in a beach house in Milford.

Audrey Josephine Smith Dutcher, a long-time resident of Closter, passed away at her home in Darien on Sept. 22. She was three months shy of her 100th birthday. A daughter of Thomas Arthur Smith and Josephine Blanche Navarro Smith, Audrey was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but the family moved to Closter before she turned five. Throughout her life Audrey displayed an almost limitless curiosity and thirst for learning.

Arthur Boyd Ward passed away Sept. 14, 2016. Better known as Jerry, he was our family’s Peter Pan. Born April 9, 1932, He was the great grandson of Robert Boyd Ward, founder in 1849 of the innovative Ward Baking Company. Jerry was a child and young man of privilege who learned the value of hard work, ethics, and commitment to family.

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Elisabetta Josephina Wolf, 89, a lifelong resident of Stamford passed away peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016 at the Long Ridge Post Acute Care of Stamford. She was born in Stamford on Oct. 29, 1926 to the late Joseph and Sylvia Sylvestre Lorenti. Elisabetta worked at the United Methodist Church Nursery School as a child care provider, as well as secretarial work, bookkeeping and also a CNA. She was a graduate of Stamford High School and attended Short’s Business School for two years.