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Ann Marie Garnett passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Daily News of Newburyport on 2023-10-16.

Remembering the ordinary life of an extraordinary mountain man Bill McGoun I often think of G.C. He was an extraordinary person. I first met G.C. (full name: Grover Cleveland Oliver Jr.) in 1969, the first year I and my family vacationed in Swain County. We rented a cabin at Pelohi Cove. G.C. was the factotum for the developers. One of G.C.’s many tasks was a weekly run taking renters’ garbage to the county dump. The ride to the dump was for my children one of the highlights of that first t...

Brenda Matthews likes to be organized. She says it unclutters her mind. Her assortment of color-coded binders in her home and knack for archiving her father Sgt. Charles J. Shaw II’s documents proved to be useful to the public too. “If you look at my house, you see everything is in a binder. You can trace my life all the way in a binder ... it’s just a habit of mind or a hobby — whatever you want to call it,” Matthews said. In the fall, the 71-year-old approached the Bowers Museum to...

This story was updated with additional information on Jan. 14, 2021. Brenda Matthews likes to be organized. She says it unclutters her mind. Her assortment of color-coded binders in her home and knack for archiving her father Sgt. Charles J. Shaw II’s documents proved to be useful to the public too. “If you look at my house, you see everything is in a binder. You can trace my life all the way in a binder ... it’s just a habit of mind or a hobby — whatever you want to call it,” Matthew...