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Genevieve Burlingame, Teacher, Mother, DCA Board Member, Founding Member of Two Investment Clubs

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Genevieve Keohane Burlingame passed away peacefully at the Meadow Ridge Health Center on Jan. 16, 2017. Born in Boston, she was the daughter of the late Dennis J. and Blanche A. (Rowley) Keohane. She was predeceased by her sister Evelyn Savini, as well as her brothers Jack Keohane, Kenneth Keohane, and Robert Keohane. A 1946 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Teachers College in Boston, Genevieve was motivated by her interest in travel and education to accept a job teaching second grade across the country at the George School in Portland, Ore.

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Bonnie MacKenzie Grey, 90, Former Darien Resident

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Bonnie M. Grey of Chester Village West in Chester, died peacefully in her sleep at home on Jan. 14. Her 90th birthday was joyfully celebrated with 18 family members on Aug. 7, 2016. She was born in Chicago to Elizabeth and John Pettibone MacKenzie and moved to Buffalo, where she attended The Park School.

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George Walsh Jr., 89, Former Darien Resident, Financial Executive

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George C. Walsh Jr., 89, of Boynton Beach, Fl. and formerly of Darien, passed away on Jan. 6. He was born July 9, 1927 in Yonkers, N.Y. George graduated from All Hallows High School where he was captain of the varsity baseball team and remained a dedicated alumnus in support of generations of students. He then graduated from Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y.
George served in the Navy in World War II and in the Army in the Korean War.

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Lucille Mitchell, 99, Former Town Resident, Active in DCA, Noroton Presbyterian Church

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Lucille (Pidge) Holloway Mitchell of Norwalk, CT passed away peacefully at home on January 2, 2017, just shy of her 100th birthday. Born in Philadelphia on Jan. 29, 1917, she was the eldest of seven children born to the late Myrtle Lange Holloway and Oliver Richard Holloway. The family lived in Philadelphia, before relocating to New York. As the oldest child she was a real support to her mother and became a second mother to her younger siblings.

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Richard DiPasquale, 57, Former Darien High School Teacher

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Richard Scott DiPasquale, born August 31, 1959, passed away peacefully on Dec. 30. He was retired for medical reasons from Darien High School, where he was a most beloved teacher for many years. Richard received his bachelor’s degree from Central Connecticut State University and his master’s degree from Yale University. He also attended Cornell University’s Falcon Program and studied in Taiwan and China, as well. Richard is survived by his wife, Susan Mulhair DiPasquale, parents Enrico DiPasquale and Claire Cardelle Skidd; step-father George Skidd; sister Judith DiPasquale and her husband Tom Tuttle; step-sisters Laurie Cross and her husband Michael Cross and Melissa Montanero and her husband John Montanero; niece Sarah Grace DiPasquale and nine nieces and nephews.

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Yolande McDowell, 89, Opened Shore & Country Realty in Darien

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Yolande Domville Mascia McDowell, 89, of Madison passed away Dec. 31 at The Hearth retirement home. Yolanda, as she preferred to be addressed in her later years, was predeceased by her former husband, James Hugh McDowell, in 1964 and subsequently assumed the role of family matriarch, raising their five children in South Norwalk while pursuing a 30-year career in real estate. She started her real estate career in the early 1970s, eventually opening her own office, Shore & Country Realty, in Darien. She was born in Washington, D.C. on Oct.

Jean White, 90, Regional Sales & Convention Manager for Darien Publishing Company

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Jean Le Count White, 90, a lifelong resident of Norwalk, passed away peacefully on Dec. 18, 2016 at Autumn Lake Health Care. 

Born at home on Dec. 16, 1926, she was the only child of Wallace and Mary LeCount, a graduate of Norwalk High School Class of 1944 and the Butler Business School of Bridgeport. A child of the 1930s, when nicknames were a requirement for kids, Jean was known as “Stinky” — a name she claimed to hate but secretly relished — for her always being at the center of the fun and the mischief. She was employed as a secretary at different companies before landing a position at Grade Teacher Publishing in Darien, where she rose to be a regional sales and convention manager regularly crisscrossing the country by air throughout the 1960s.