In Memory Of

Virginia I. Romanko (nee Rolek) of New Providence, N.J., passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, June 6, 2020, at the age of 86.
Due to the limitations on public gatherings the service will be private under the direction of Paul Ippolito Summit Memorial. Burial will be held at St. Teresa’s Cemetery in Summit. For more information or to express condolences please visit www.ippolitofuneralhomes.com.
Virginia was born in Newark, N.J., to Mary (nee Zeleski) and Victor Rolek. She attended Newark Westside High School and earned her bachelor’s in Education from Montclair State University [Read more …]

Richard Sebastian Cuda of Boca Grande, FL and East Orleans, MA died peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Thursday, October 10th, two months shy of his 87th birthday. Known to friends as Dick and to family as Pops, he was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, talented entrepreneur and philanthropist, and enthusiastic fisherman, hunter, and art collector. As he passed at first light, just as his beloved wife Ellie had ten years earlier, a Cape Nor’easter howled and the surf roared, nature’s ovation for a life well-lived.

Born on December 6, [Read more …]

Barbara Bobbi Tucker died on June 19th of pulmonary failure at her home in Lincoln. She was 86. She and her husband, Ted Tucker, built their home together brick by brick. It is in the lovely garden overlooking the pond that their life began together in 1955. Bobbi’s parents, Arthur and Gertrude Marcia Howe with sisters Debbie and Priscilla, of Ardsdale, NY, found their way to Rabbit Bluff in East Orleans, MA | their summer home. There, under Marcia’s guidance, they took great joy in lithography, printmaking, portraits and watercolors. Bobbi graduated [Read more …]

Elizabeth “Betty” Garner Martin, Age 92, of Duxbury, died Sunday, May 26, 2019. She was the wife of the late Thomas Martin.

Betty grew up in Montclair, NJ, graduated from The Kimberly School in 1944 in Montclair, NJ and went on to Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and received her degree in 1948. Soon after graduation, Betty married Stephen H. Garner, Jr. and they lived happily for 40 years in Attleboro, MA, East Orleans, MA, and Vero Beach, FL. After the death of Stephen, she married Thomas Martin of East Orleans.They were happily [Read more …]

Robert T. Munson, of East Orleans, passed away on March 15, 2015 at Cape Cod Hospital. He was born in 1934 in Portland, Maine to Anna and Walter Munson.

He graduated from Deering HS and the University of Maine where he received a BS degree in mechanical engineering. Later he received an MBA from the University of Hartford. While at Maine he was a member of PhiKappa Sigma fraternity, Tau Beta Pi and Scabbard, and Blade honorary societies. He was also a member of the Orleans Yacht Club and was Clerk of the [Read more …]

Mr. John D. “Jack” Mahaney, 85, of 9 Doane Rd., East Orleans, MA and 174 Southwest Rd., Waterbury, CT passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Friday, December 26, 2014. He was the loving husband of Ellen (McNaney) Mahaney for 61 years.
Jack, a distinguished, lifelong resident of Waterbury, was born in Waterbury on February 18, 1929. He was the son of the late Daniel John and Marie (Lawlor) Mahaney. He was a graduate of Crosby High School Class of 1947, Fairfield University Class of [Read more …]