Local Obituaries
Victor E. Rich
Dec 20, 2021
Victor E. Rich Jr., 41, of Berlin, NH passed away unexpectedly on December 20, 2021. He was born in Berlin, NH on August 18, 1980 the son of Victor E. Rich Sr. and Peggy M. (Perry) Rich and was a lifelong resident of the area. He had been educated in Milan and Berlin schools and had been employed by Robert...
Brenda L. Sherman
Dec 20, 2021
Brenda Lee (McCaw) Sherman of Gorham, NH passed away gracefully on December 20, 2021, in Berlin, NH. Brenda was born in Limestone, Maine to Donald J. McCaw and Della M. Purcell on July 10, 1955. She married Bruce E. Sherman on May 12, 1973. They lived most of their lives together at their home in Barkhamsted, CT, where they raised...
O’Brien R. Murphy
Dec 19, 2021
O’Brien R. “Ben” Murphy, 70, of Gorham, passed on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin. He was born in Rumford, Maine on September 9, 1951, the son of the late Robert G. and Priscilla (Farwell) Murphy. Ben grew up in Gorham, N.H., and in 1969 graduated from Gorham High School before going on to earn his...
Jeffrey C. Lettre
Dec 18, 2021
Jeffrey C. Lettre, 27, of Berlin, N.H., passed away peacefully on Saturday December 18th, 2021 at Massachusetts General Hospital from complications with pneumonia. He was born in Littleton, NH on June 8, 1994 the son of Jean-Paul and Wendy (Martin) Lettre. Early on Jeffrey was diagnosed with Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. He lived at home until...
Bertha C. Santiago
Dec 16, 2021
Bertha C. Santiago, 82, of Berlin, passed away on Thursday December 16, 2021 at the Coos County Nursing Home. She was born in Berlin on June 22, 1939 the daughter of Jean Felix and Lucia (LeBlanc) Gallant and graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1958. She moved to NY to attend X-Ray school and graduated with a BS in...
Margaret I. Morgan
Dec 16, 2021
Margaret Iris Morgan, 75, of Gorham, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, December 16, 2021 at her home. She was born in Phillipsburg, NJ on July 4, 1946 the daughter of the late Lincoln and Ellen (Schafer) Frey and was raised in the Phillipsburg area. She spent some time in Florida before moving to the Androscoggin Valley to work at the...
Madeline R. Wentworth
Dec 13, 2021
Madeline R. Wentworth, 87, of Gorham, NH, joined her Heavenly Father on Monday, December 13, 2021 at St. Vincent de Paul Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Berlin. She was born on December 22, 1933 in Cascade-Gorham, NH, the daughter of the late Harry and Mary (McLaughlin) Corrigan and was a lifelong resident of the area. She married the love of...
Rita T Lemieux
Dec 12, 2021
Rita T. Lemieux, 67, of Berlin, NH passed away on December 12, 2021 at the Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin. She was born in Berlin, NH on October 30, 1954 the daughter of the late Rudolph and Jeanine (Belanger) Lemieux and has been a lifelong resident. She was a graduate of Berlin High School. Rita had been employed by Custom...
Lahiila-Lai Maharriyum
Dec 8, 2021
Lahiila-lai Maharriyum passed away peacefully in her home in Gorham on December 8, 2021, at the age of 92. She will always be remembered by her family as a loving sister, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. By the people of Gorham, where she spent the last 4 years of her life, she may be remembered as the little old lady who...
Gerard H. Ouellette
Dec 7, 2021
Gerard H. (Gerry) Ouellette, 75 of Berlin passed away unexpectedly at his home on Tuesday December 7th, 2021. Born on August 5th,1946 to the late Gerard J. Ouellette and Juliette (Demers) Ouellette and resided in the Berlin area his whole life. Gerard married his teenage sweetheart in 1966 and worked at the Cascade paper mill #1 paper machine until his...
George N. Houle
Dec 6, 2021
George Norman Houle, 91, of Lehigh Acres, FL, passed away on Monday, December 6, 2021 at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Ft. Myers, FL after a brief period of failing health. George was born in Berlin, NH on July 20, 1930 the son of the late Edward and Alice (Dion) Houle and resided in Berlin for most of his life....
Katherine (Kat) M. Crabtree
Dec 6, 2021
Katherine (Kat) Maria Crabtree, 58, of Berlin, NH passed away on December 6, 2021 at AVH, Berlin, NH. She was born in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 15, 1963. She was the daughter of Thomas R. Stanley Sr. and Anna B. Stanley (DiMare). Kat worked for Honeywell in Nashua, NH for many years until she retired. In her early retirement, she...
Pearl M. Legere
Dec 4, 2021
Pearl M. Legere, 94, of Berlin, passed away on Saturday December 4, 2021 at her home. She was born in Berlin on January 30, 1927 the daughter of Aime and Irene (Perry) Moreau and was a lifelong resident. She graduated from Berlin High School and had been employed in the towel room at Brown Company. Pearl was a member of...
Ferne A. Young
Dec 3, 2021
Ferne Young, 93, of Berlin, NH and most recently as a resident of the St. Vincent de Paul Rehab and Nursing Center, passed away on December 3, 2021. Ferne was born in St. Johnsbury, VT on November 16, 1927, the daughter of Andrew and Glenn Arthur. She grew up in Barnet, Vt and graduated from McIndoes Academy in 1945. She...
Richard R. Perry
Dec 3, 2021
In Loving Memory Richard Robert Perry-Rusinski Richard age 34, lived in Berlin, NH for all of his adult life. He loved living in the north country, he enjoyed hiking the trails and riding his toys. He was always either on his wheeler or snow machine. When he couldn’t be outside, he was at home in his chair listening to his...
Irene T. Strout
Dec 2, 2021
Irene T. Strout, 94, of Gorham, passed away on Thursday December 2, 2021 at the Androscoggin Valley Hospital. She was born in Berlin on February 19, 1927 the daughter of Charles and Rose (Leclerc) Belanger and lived most of her life in the Berlin-Gorham area. She had lived for a time in Massachusetts. Irene graduated from Berlin High School and...
Donald M. Pepin
Dec 2, 2021
Donald M. Pepin, 68, of West Milan, NH, passed away on December 2, 2021 at Androscoggin Valley Hospital after a period of failing health. He was born in Berlin, NH on October 9, 1953 the son of the late Maurice and Doris (Lafrance) Pepin and resided in Berlin and West Milan all of his life. For many years he worked...
Laura J. Chabot
Dec 1, 2021
Laura (Bilodeau) Chabot, 93, of Berlin, passed away on Wednesday December 1, 2021 at the Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin. She was born in Berlin, NH on May 10, 1928, the daughter of Emile and Vedela Bilodeau, and was a lifelong resident. She was a member of Good Shepherd Parish. She was employed at the Converse Shoe Factory for a...
Rita A. St. Hilaire
Dec 1, 2021
Rita A. (Fortier) St.Hilaire, 77, of Berlin, passed away on Wednesday December 1, 2021 at the Portsmouth Regional Hospital. She was born in Lewiston, ME on December 19, 1943 the daughter of Wilfred and Evelyn (Baillargeon) Fortier. Rita loved spending time with her children, 14 grandchildren, and her 6 great grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling, especially her trips to Hawaii, Nashville...
Bart M. Bergquist
Nov 29, 2021
Bart M. Bergquist, 55, of Berlin, passed away unexpectedly at the Androscoggin Valley Hospital. He was born in Lancaster, NH on January 15, 1966 the son of Jack Bergquist and Mona (Merrow) Lauzon and was raised in the North Country. He graduated from Berlin High School with the Class of 1984. A lifetime carpenter, he had been employed as a...
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