[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] Worcester County, Massachusetts Obituary and Death Notice Collection GenealogyBuff.com - Worcester County, Massachusetts Obituary Collection - 40 Posted By: GenealogyBuff Date: Saturday, 17 April 2010, at 12:45 a.m. System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC! Norma G. Sibley; Loved Music ORANGE - Norma G. (Healy) Sibley, 78, of 519 East River St., died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2001, in Athol Memorial Hospital. She leaves four daughters, Karen Charest of Little River, S.C., Jean Ramsay of Gorham, Gardner and Fitchburg, died Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 in the Lep P. LaChance Nursing Home in Gardner. Among her survivors is a son, Dennis A. Ouellette, of Royalston. Doris C. Mayhew ORANGE - Doris C. (Gunn) Mayhew, 87, of 383 East River St., died Wednesday evening, Sept. 19, 2001, at the Charlene Manor Nursing Home in Greenfield. Funeral arrangements under the direction of Witty's Funeral Home are pending. Eleanor M. Johnson Gardener, Musician Orange - Eleanor M. (Merry) Johnson, 96, of 429 North Main St., died Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001, at the Quabbin Valley Healthcare after an illness. She was born June 3, 1905 in Boston, the daughter of Walter and May (Mundell) Merry. She grew up in West Brookfield and attended West Brookfield schools. She later lived in West Fairlee, Vt., Ware, Athol, and since 1945, had resided in Orange. She enjoyed her family, plants, flower gardening, feeding and watching the birds, and playing the piano and organ. Her husband of many years, Elwyn F. Johnson Sr., died in 1986. She leaves a son, Elwyn F. Johnson Jr. of Athol, eight grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren. A daughter, Eleanor L. Castine, died in 1986 and a son, Ronald P. Johnson, died in 1988. Graveside services will be held Monday, Sept. 24, at 10 a.m. in Silver Lake Cemetery, Athol, with the Rev. Dr. R. Lee Smith, pastor of Starrett Memorial United Methodist Church, officiating. There are no calling hours and in lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Western Calif., formerly of Orange, died on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2001 at the Presbyterian Hospital in Whittier. He was born in Lynn on Nov. 10, 1913, son of the late Howard and Lottie Hastings of Orange, the second of four children. The family moved to Orange where he grew up and graduated from high school. He loved playing baseball, the piano, and the cello. He was the tenor soloist in a local church in both Athol and Orange at a young age. But he hated the cold. He worked as a correspondent at a Worcester paper and was able to save money for college. Then he moved west to pursue a vocal music degree at USC where his future wife, Roberta Kraft, was working on her masters degree. A woman from the university church youth group introduced them telling Roberta that Allen was "one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet." Music was an instant bond between the two as was their Christian outlook. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude in Music. He always wore the keys he received for those honors on the chain of his pocket watch. He had also been in Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Lambda, Phi Eta Sigma, and Phi Mu Alpha honorary societies. He and Roberta were married in 1942. They travelled to Kansas to be married by Roberta's father, a Methodist minister there. After the war, they had their first son, Arthur, and moved to the Los Angeles area to Torrance where he had an administrative position with an oil company. He then got a teaching position in Westwood, a small lumber town near Mt. Lassen where Lloyd was born. After a year they returned to the Los Angeles area settling in Whittier in 1949 where he lived the rest of his life. In the late '40s and early '50s Allen was the tenor soloist on the radio for the Church of the Open Door with Pastor J. Vernon McGee. But since he wasn't able to make much money as a soloist, he sought out positions as a choral director and became the choir director at the South Hollywood Presbyterian Church. Meanwhile, Roberta had already gotten the job as organist at the Montebello Methodist Church in 1950. A couple of years later, the choir director position came open and they then became a team that would last for nearly 40 years, retiring in 1990. Roberta always said that Allen was her favorite director. He would always move in such a way that she knew exactly how he wanted the music to sound. Allen taught sixth grade in the public schools. He was looking for a career change and worked towards becoming a court reporter. While he was never able to get quite fast enough to pass the test to become a licensed court reporter, he passed the level to become a legal secretary. He then took a position as a legal secretary at the district attorney's office for a number of years. The family remembers him for his love for singing, his leadership of the choir and how he was able to make people laugh and entertain them with jokes or by playing the piano. His Christmas letters were famous and loved far and wide. He started them in 1957 and they ran until the early 90s. He had two sons but wound up with four granddaughters and he loved all of them dearly. He was often the one that picked out dresses as gifts for the girls. In recent years, Allen fell victim to Alzheimer's disease. His wife, Roberta, his brother, Gordon, sons Art and Lloyd with their wives Sharon and Claudia, granddaughters Becky, Sarah, Julia and Carolyn all live in Calif. and he was interred at the Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier. 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