Thomas I. Jaeger Jr.

Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:01

Thomas I Jaeger Jr., son of longtime New Canaan residents Thomas and Jane Jaeger, died November 10 at Norwalk Hospital from complications from cancer. He was 65.

Thom Cooper

Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:00

Thom Cooper, a former New Canaan resident, died at Sir Michael Sobell House in Oxford, England, on November 11. He was 76.

Hunt Turner Collins

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:59

First Lt. Hunt Turner Collins, an Air Force veteran who had a long career in real estate and the restaurant business, died Friday, November 6. He was 78.

Joseph Dorrico

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:58

Joseph F. Dorrico of Stamford, former New Canaan postmaster, died November 11 at The Richard Rosenthal Hospice Residence. He was 90.

Eleanor Montgomery

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:58

Eleanor Andrews Barrett Montgomery, mother of Anne Montgomery of New Canaan and sister-in-law of the late Marshall Montgomery, died October 28. She was 93.

Born in Augusta, Ga., on January 4, 1916, she was the daughter of Leonard Lovering Barrett and Stamford notable, Dean Andrews Barrett Halliwell.

John Lynch Sr.

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:57

John Gibbons Lynch Sr. of Cary, Ill., and Inverness, Fla., died on Tuesday, November 10, after a brief bout with gastric cancer. He was 87.

Lawrence F. Karl

Thursday, 19 November 2009 09:56

Lawrence F. Karl of New Canaan died on Thursday, November 12, at Norwalk Hospital. He was 81.

He was born in town on November 24, 1927, the fourth child of Miriam Bligh Karl and John Martin Karl, one of New Canaan’s community leaders and business entrepreneurs.

John Robert Bassett

Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:57

John Robert “Jack” Bassett, a former New Canaan resident, died at his home in Vero Beach, Fla., on November 4. He was 82.

Mr. Bassett was born in Albany, N.Y., on October 7, 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. John O. Bassett.

James Hudson Shipman

Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:57

James Hudson Shipman, a 1962 graduate of New Canaan High School, died on November 4 at Greenwich Hospital, following a battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Gene Trayser Dunaway

Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:55

Retired United States Navy Cmdr. Gene Trayser Dunaway died November 3 at the Hospice Center in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after a battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 81.

Mr. Dunaway was born in Pine Bluff, Ark., on December 30, 1927, to Witt Allen and Dorothy Trayser Dunaway. His ancestors settled the Arkansas Territory.