It had been a month since I’d cantered through the hills and fields astride Tex — a giant, almost black Percheron. Over many years, he and I have had a special friendship, and have developed our own language. That morning was misty and cool, with scents of spring, the forest almost luminescent with green moss […]
To the Editor: The family of Tad Crawford wish to sincerely thank Sandie Core-Dolby and Horizons Geriatrics, Cheryl Kram and the Martha’s Vineyard branch of VNA Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod, and Tad’s part-time caregiver over the past two years, Peter Fernandes, for the loving and considerate care they offered to Tad during […]
Barbara A. Alconada of Oak Bluffs died peacefully at Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the early hours of Dec. 13, 2021. Barbara was just shy of her 87th birthday. Barbara was born in Boston to Everett and Mary Hough. She attended Practical Arts High School, and married Joseph J. Alconada. After her marriage to […]
Esther A. Casey, “Mimi” to all who knew and loved her, passed away peacefully on May 7, 2021, surrounded by family and her beloved pets. Mimi was born in Providence, R.I., on March 11, 1927, one of 10 children. Her family moved several times, but Mimi spent much of her younger years in Somerville. After […]
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Esther Ann Chase passed away quietly in her home, surrounded by family, on Feb. 8, 2021. She was 94.
The daughter of Hiram Arthur Schubert and Ruth (Johnson) Schubert, Ann was born in East Rockaway, N.Y., on Dec. 11, 1926. She spent her childhood years in Lynbrook on Long Island, where her father was school principal and her mother a French teacher. She and her older sister, Jane, grew up in a home surrounded by craftwork: Her father was a painter, silversmith, and woodcarver; her mother a maker of clothes, hooked rugs, and ornaments. Ann’s destiny as a professional craftsman was as passionately pursued as it was inevitable.