Marshall
Hubbard Peck Jr.
Marshall Hubbard Peck Jr., 86, died May 5 at the Arbors of Bedford in Bedford, N.H.
He had been publisher of the Vermont News Guide of Manchester,
Vt. He bought a small newspaper, then named the Guide, in Manchester
Center, Vt., in 1972. He renamed it the Vermont News Guide, and sold
it in 1988 to Journal Publications, a Wisconsin company.
Early in his career, Peck had been a stringer in Paris
for the International Herald Tribune. In 1955, he transferred to the
former New York Herald Tribune, where he was a reporter and editor.
After the Tribune folded, Peck became press secretary
for R. Sargent Shriver at the federal Office of Economic Opportunity,
and later when Shriver was ambassador to France. Peck was a press aide
to Nelson Rockefeller, former vice president and former governor of
New York, at the Rockefeller Foundation. Peck also worked for Norton
Simon Co. in public relations.
He co-authored two books, “Betrayal at the UN”
and “The Odd Day.”
He leaves a daughter,
Ann; four sons, Christopher, Marshall, Marc and Michel; seven grandchildren;
four great-grandchildren.
James
Hoffman
 James
Hoffman, 83, of Elkins, W.Va., former publisher of the Kennebec Journal
of Augusta, Maine, died June 3.
Hoffman worked for The Inter-Mountain
of Elkins, W.Va., after military service during World War II and attending
college.
He later became an advertising sales representative for The Herald-Dispatch
of Huntington, W.Va., and was promoted to its business manager and treasurer.
He was a past president and a member of the board of directors of the
West Virginia Press Association.
Hoffman was publisher of
the Kennebec Journal after that, and, in the 1980s, managed the Dominion
Post of Morgantown, W.Va. He then joined Ogden Newspapers Inc., working
for that company in Florida before returning to be publisher for 15
years of The Inter-Mountain.
He retired in 2003.
Hoffman leaves his
wife, Aletha; a daughter, Cassandra; a son, J.D.; three grandchildren.
 Sarah
Vaughan Snyder
Sarah Vaughan Snyder,
51, died of cancer June 7 in her home in Milton, Mass.
She worked for The Boston
Globe for more than 25 years, as an editor and reporter. Her career
at the Globe began in 1984 as a Metro reporter. She held positions that
included business reporter, deputy city editor, and editor of the South
Weekly section. Most recently she was an editor of the Globe South section.
She leaves her husband,
Geoffrey; a son, Ben; a daughter, Kate; a sister; two brothers.
Robert
G. Andrews
Robert G. Andrews, 81, of
Orleans, Mass., died June 1 in Lowell (Mass.) General Hospital.
He was an editor and columnist
for the then-Cape Cod Oracle of Harwich, Mass.
He leaves two sons,
Robert and Edwin, and two grandchildren.
A.
Thomas Kent
A. Thomas Kent, 78, died
May 14 at Grafton County Nursing Home in North Haverhill, N.H., after
battling cancer.
He was a reporter and feature
writer for 12 years at the weekly Journal Opinion in Bradford, Vt.
He leaves his wife,
Paula; a son, Christopher; a daughter, Elizabeth; four stepchildren;
15 grandchildren.
Ellen
J. Miller
Ellen J. Miller, 76, of Carlisle,
Mass., died May 26 after battling kidney cancer.
She was the feature editor
of the Carlisle Mosquito.
She leaves a son,
Matthew, and two grandchildren.
Margaret
Helen Sharkey
 Margaret
Helen Sharkey, 93, of Uxbridge, Mass., died June 7.
She worked for five years
as a copy reader for The Call of Woonsocket, R.I. For 30 years, she
also was a correspondent, part-time reporter, and, later, a local and
regional reporter for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass.
She often contributed to
the former Uxbridge Times.
She was guest editor for
three Uxbridge brochures.
She leaves two daughters,
Mary and Joan, and a grandson.
 Geraldine
A. Moulton
Geraldine A. Moulton, 76,
died June 7 at Vernon (Vt.) Green Nursing Home.
She worked for the Bangor
(Maine) Daily News, where she staffed the Washington County News Bureau
in Calais, Maine. She also was on the editorial staff of the Republican
Journal of Belfast, Maine.
She leaves her husband,
Elbert; a daughter, Patricia; three sons, Robert, Dan and David; six
grandchildren; a brother; a sister.
George
Kirkpatrick
George Kirkpatrick, 89, of
Plymouth, Mass., died June 12 at Life Care Center in Plymouth.
He was a lithographer for
20 years for The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass.
He leaves a son, George;
a daughter, Sharon; three grandchildren.
Stephen
R. Bull
 Stephen
R. Bull, 54, of Temple, Maine, died May 30 at Maine Medical Center in
Portland.
He worked for the Livermore
Falls (Maine) Advertiser and wrote a weekly column called Shooting the
Bull for The Franklin Journal in Farmington, Maine. He won several awards
from the Maine Press Association and the New England Press Association
for his humor column.
He also was a disc jockey
and operations manager for WKTJ-FM Radio Station in Farmington, Maine.
He was a book author.
He leaves his wife,
Leslie; a son, Spencer; his mother, Anne; a stepson, Michael; two brothers;
a sister.
 Thea
D. Coburn
Thea D. Coburn,
89, died of an accident May 24 in her home in Suffield, Conn.
She was the Suffield correspondent
for the former Hartford (Conn.) Times. For 19 years she wrote a column
reporting on town news.
She leaves nieces
and nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews.
Isabel
West
Isabel West, 97, of Vineyard
Haven, Mass., died June 9 at Long Hill, an assisted living development
for the elderly in Edgartown, Mass.
She was a columnist for the
Vineyard Gazette of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. She was
also a Martha’s Vineyard historian. She wrote a book called “Riv
and Ruth.”
She leaves a son,
Nathaniel; a daughter, Christine; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Shirley
Ann Lincoln
Shirley Ann Lincoln, 88,
of Harwich Port, Mass., died of heart failure June 6 at the Eagle Pond
Rehabilitation and Living Center in South Dennis, Mass.
She worked for the Daily News Tribune of Waltham, Mass.
She leaves a son,
William, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
Irene
Dalton
Irene Dalton, 84, of Ashland
Mass., died June 9 in Milford, Mass., after a period of declining health.
She worked for the former
Record American of Boston.
She leaves two daughters,
Kathleen and Christine; two sons, Gerard and Frank; seven grandchildren;
seven great-grandchildren.
The obituaries
were written, at least in part, from published reports by Ariana Figuera,
an undergraduate student at the Northeastern University School of Journalism
and member of the Bulletin staff.
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