Arthur Bassett

Veteran

PFC US Army WWII

Horace S. Thompson

Veterans

Massachusetts PFC 118 Ambulance CO WWI

Prescott W. Lentell

Veteran

PVT HQ 1 Army WWII

Raymond J. Newman

Veteran

SFC US Army WWII

Leander G. Chase

Worked on Whaling ship age 15 US Navy 1917-1921 WW I.

He was forced into mutiny in the Pacific but escaped and was adrift at sea two weeks without food or water. He was captured by Korean pirates and held as hostage. He served in the U. S Navy from 1917 to 1921 and during the first world war served in Naval Intelligence. In 1931 as a member of the naval reserve he was sent to China on a troop ship to train men.

Robert J. Chase

Veteran

CPL US Army Korea

Walter Hughes

Veteran

SGT US ARMY WWII

Bernard A. Leduc

Veteran

F. Bruce Savage

Veteran

Korea

Carlton Brown

Veteran

PVT US ARMY WWI

Paul Dyer

Veteran

US ARMY WWII

Raymond Hall

Veteran

SSGT US Air Force Korea

Paul Carney

Veteran

WWII

John Haley

Veteran

LCDR US Navy WWII

George L. Weekes

Veteran

The First to be interned at Island Pond. Originally born In Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1688.

Robert Callaghan

Veteran

SSGT US Army WWII

Carlos Kleinsmith

Veteran

SGT US Army WWI

Martin McDonough

Veteran

WWII

Clayton Childs

Veteran

PC1 US NAVY WWII Korea Vietnam

Herman Ogren

Veteran

MA PVT CO D 2 CORPS ARTY PARK WWI

Leonard Heap

Veteran

US Navy Vietnam War

Harold Wheeler

Veteran

CPL US Army Korea

Robert Murdick

Veteran

SEA2 US Navy WWI

Ruth Maher

Veteran

S SGT US Army WWII

Marie Marcus

First Lady of Jazz

Marie Marcus, a jazz pianist who was a protégée of Fats Waller and appeared on Manhattan's 52nd Street, the prewar epicenter of jazz, before becoming a summer fixture in nightclubs on Cape Cod, died on Oct. 10 in Hyannis, Mass. She was 89. In a book about jazz personalities, ''Barney, Bradley, and Max'' (Oxford, 1989), the jazz critic Whitney Balliett suggested that Mrs. Marcus's talent and experience elevated her into a higher league than the normal run of resort acts. ''At first, her styl ...

John B. Tuttle

Veteran

Civil War

Dr. Milton Jay Hirshberg

Veteran

LTJG US Navy WWII

Ezekiel Sears Nickerson

Fought in The Civil War

Frances D. Reynolds

Police

Harwich Police Officer

Lois M. Peters

Artist

Charles C. Alvord

Veteran

PVT US Army WWI

Mary (Humphrey) Brown

Editor

Editor of Cape Cod Oracle and the Cape Codder

Frederick A. Dyer

Veteran

PVT US ARMY

Russell Eliott Bailey

Veteran

US Submarine WWII

Charles D. Rubert

Veteran

1st LT US Army WWI

Carlton C. Olson

Veteran

Korean war veteran

Xavier Owen Jude McDonnell

Veteran

WWII

John Howard Paine

Veteran

Marine that served in both WWI and WWII

Robert Valmer Paine

Killed In Action World War 2

Seaman first class US coast guard lost at sea. US Navy casualty. Note: potential error on stone.

Nils O. Westin

NASA Scientist

Worked on the NASA reentry system for spacecraft earth re-entry.

Eugene Hudson

Judge

Associate Justice. The Massachusetts Superior Court

Francis Hudson

World War 2 Veteran-Superior Court Judge

Wrote journals while serving as a U.S. Marine in World War 2, and then went on to continue his call to service as a Massachusetts Superior Court Judge.

Ruth Anne Hudson

Writer

Poet and writer, celebrated the cape and her family

Alvin Drown

Veteran

Civil War

Ron Marshall

Musician

Born as Milton Charles Monbleau, Musician

Elmer Bassett

Fought In World War 1

CPL US Army WWI

Joseph K.. Robbins

Veteran

World War 1

George N. Munsell

Assistant Surgeon 35th Infantry During The Civil War

George Munsell – 1 Nov 1905 VETERAN CAPE PHYSICIAN. Dr. George N. Munsell of Harwich, a civil war veteran, and one of Cape Cod's best-known physicians, died Wednesday evening in his 70th year at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. W. Megathlin, in Hyannis, with whom he had been living about a month since the death of his wife recently. Dr. Munsell had been in feeble health several years. Dr. Munsell was born at Burlington, Dec. 14, 1835, educated at Hampden and Belfast academies and gradua ...

Asa Leonard Jones

Fought in The Civil War

Second 2nd Lt. 6th Co. U.S.C.T.

Warren Nickerson

Veteran

Served During World War 1

Stephan Cole

Veteran

Civil War

Charles S. Freeman

Veteran

Civil War

Prince Atkins

Veteran

Fought in The Civil War

Richard Weekes

Veteran

WWII

Henry W. Phillips

Veteran

Fought in The Civil War

Lorenzo Kelley

Veteran

Fought in The Civil War

Richard Wilfred Berube

Veteran

AB US Air Force in Vietnam

Harry Diamantas

Fought in Vietnam

SP4 US Army Vietnam

Robert E. Snow

Veteran

U.S. Marine World War 2

Norman Cronan

Veteran

Sp3 US Army

John Preston

Veteran

Capt. US Air Force

William Brown

Veteran

Francis J. Gay

Veteran

WWII

Thomas J. Brown

Veteran

WWII

John J. king

Veteran

David Russel Fee

Veteran

Neil M. Johnson

Veteran

Vietnam

Walter E. Knudson

Veteran

WWII

Robert Dereck Brooke Williams MD

Veteran

Navy Air force, British Army

Frank Jeffrey Jr

Veteran

US Navy WWII

Henry Bracchi

Veteran

US Army WWII

Robert Carl Jacobi

Veteran

WWII

Frederick Lynch

Veteran

Served During World War 2 as a Cprl in the U.S. Marine Corps

Edson F. Woodward

Veteran

World War 2

Charles H. Andrews

Veteran

Captain U.S.Army Air Corps World War 2

Larry Martin Brietzke

Veteran

Chester Berg

Veteran

Korean War

Richard James Murray

Veteran

US Army WWII

John Memos

Veteran

CPL US Army

Ryan Joseph Ottino

Veteran

AIC US Air Force Iraq

Donald Earl Mentus

Veteran

US Navy WWII

William H. Parsons

Veteran

SGT US Army WWII

Beryl Nichols

Veteran

T SGT US Army WWII

Frederick Consalves

Veteran

TEC 4 US Army WWII

Arthur D. Palmer

Veteran

S1 US Navy WWII

Dennis Rochford O'Brien

Veteran

Joseph Leslie Meeks

World War 2 Veteran

Joseph passed away in February 2019. Joseph was a resident of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts at the time of passing. Visitation will be at Morris, O'Connor & Blute in June when the weather turns warmer and snowbirds return, followed by burial at Island Pond Cemetery, both in Harwich.

Alfred Joseph Monterio

Veteran

Vietnam

Alfred F Churchey

Veteran World War 2

Born on November 12, 1918 in Brockton, MA, he was the son of the late Nicholas and Eva (Richards) Churchey. He graduated from Brockton High School on June 19, 1937. On October 12, 1941, he married Ruth White at Avon Baptist Church in Avon, MA. He honorably served in the U.S. Army during WWII and was stationed in Germany. For many years, he worked for Gerald Ash in Waltham, MA. Following his retirement, he and Ruth permanently moved to Cape Cod and spent their winters in Florida.

Kenneth Desmarais

Veteran

Vietnam

Robert C. Healey

Veteran

Korean War

James Menzies

Veteran

F1 US Navy WWII

Frederick W. Smythe

Veteran

CPL US Army WWII

John Perrira Marcellino

Veteran

PFC US Army Korea

Danford D. Derr

Veteran

CSSN US Navy WWII

Charles Neal Cross

Veteran

PFC US Army

Kenneth Edwards Ramos

Veteran

US Air Force Korea

John A. Lindsay, Jr.

Veteran

CS1 US Navy WWII Korea

Edward Wayne Oliver

Veteran

Korea

George F. Enhorning

Veteran

Navy WWII

Harry Mooridian

Veteran

Veteran

Joseph F. Rose

Veteran

WWII Veteran, Drowned in Flax Pond

George Ellsworth

Veteran

WWII

Robert Loring Drummond

Veteran

WWII

Robert N. Larson

Veteran

PFC US Army WWII

Edward Berchman Kerin

Veteran

ILT US Army

James D. Dutch

Veteran

Raymond G. Reenstra

Veteran

US Army Air Corps WWII

Frank B. Cornwell Sr.

Veteran

SEA2 US Navy WWI

Joseph W. Farrow

Veteran

American Legion

Warren B. Towne

Veteran

WWI

Jacques J. Burquet

Veteran

WWII

Bernard R. Harvey

Veteran

US Army

Karl lehman Wehemeyer

Veteran

SGT US Army WWI

Joseph G. Shuttlesworth

Veteran

MSGT US Army WWII

William F. Jones

Veteran

1st LT US Army WWII Korea

Charles W. Grinnell

Veteran

CPL US Army WWII

Charles S. McLaughlin Sr.

Veteran

WWII

Warner Burton Cashen

Veteran

Navy

Harold F. Eldredge

Veteran

PFC US Army WWII

Joseph Conrad Blute

Died Storming the Beach at Normandy France during the World War 2.

PFC 324 Infantry 44 Division WW 2. Died as a hero when storming the beach at Normandy. His remains are buried at The Lorraine Cemetery -ST AVOLD France.

James Blute Jr.

Veteran

LT US Navy WWII

Sister Mary Noel, R. S. M. (Eleanor Marie) Blute

Religious Sister of Mercy

Religious teacher, community administrator

Courtney Neale Chase

Veteran

CBM US Navy WWII

Royal A. Jones

Veteran

WWII

Allan John Estey

Veteran

M GNR US Army WWI

Edward Allen Osmun Sr

Veteran

TSGT US Army WWII

Henry J. Blaski

Veteran

Connecticut S2 US Navy WWII PH

George E. Rogers

Veteran

CT HQ BTRU 41 ARTY CAC WWI

John J. Donohue

Veteran

SGT US Army WWII

Henry Friedlander

Veteran

PFC US Army WWII

Herbert L. Cunningham

Veteran

CPL US Army WWII

John M. Bullard

Veteran

STC US Army Desert Storm

Claude Bullard

Veteran

TSGT US Air Force WWII

George Henry Colbert

Veteran

LT US Navy WWII

John Herbert Lavin

Veteran

WWII

William O'Grady

Veteran

WWII

Leon A. Dwan

Veteran

WWII

Donald McGregor

Veteran

WWII Army

Ignatius Felix Fennell

Veteran

WWII

Dennis W. Callaghan

Veteran

1st LT US Air Force Vietnam

Roger C. Hager

Veteran

WWII Navy

Bernadine F. Sullivan

Award winning freelance writer and an accomplished violinist

For many years, Bernadine served as a much-loved Professor of English at Quinsigamond Community College, maintaining contact with some of her former students for decades. She also was an award-winning free-lance writer of featured articles for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and published poetry in numerous literary journals. Vibrant, creative teacher; generous, adventurous friend; fierce defender of the underdog, Bernadine was a hero to all who loved her. She and her husband traveled widely ...

Augustus W. Warren

Veteran

2nd ASSIST ENGER USMM WWII, lost at sea on the Liberty ship John Winthrop sunk by U-619

Sebastian Michael Russo

Educator, Veteran

Educator in Rhode Island, first SGT and First ranger Battalion, US Army WWII

Gordon W. Smith

Veteran

WWII

Herbert C. Crowell

Veteran

CPL QMC WWI

Cornelius Eldredge Jr.

Veteran

Civil War

Cyrus Ellis II

Civil war veteran

He was a part of the 58th Mass INF Civil War and was captured as a Prisoner of War.

Benjamin Bassett

Vetern

Fought in the Civil War. Enlisted in company A, Massachusetts 58th infantry regiment. He was married to Ruth B. Eldredge and had 13 children.

Anthony S. Megathlin

Sea captain

Anthony Megathlin once dined with President Lincoln at the White House. During the Civil War Lincoln had invited some of the commissioned Naval offices to the White House for lunch. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was in Mobile, Alabama, which state seceded while he was in Mobile, and he had great difficulty in getting out of the Confederacy. After an exciting escape he reached New York and made haste to enlist in the Navy of the U. S. where he served four years, participating in many batt ...

Edgar Small

Monomoy Lifesavers, lost at sea

Benjamin F. Bee

Veteran

Benjamin F Bee served in the Civil War and then perfected his various patterns, from button fasteners to safety boilers, which were manufactured in is own factory.

Roland Mervyn Robbins

Newspaper writer

Captain Alvin Cahoon

Fought in the Civil War

Harwich led the way to introducing the cranberry to the world by producing the first crop for commercial sale. In 1846, Captain Alvin Cahoon is credited with producing the first such crop from a bog near Pleasant Lake. The venture spread quickly, with others in other towns, counties and states planting their own bogs and producing their own crops for the growing markets.

James Marceline

WWII veteran, who the arboretum is named after, civil leader, community activist; Obituary...https: ...

POW/Purple Heart Medal, Good Conduct Medal, WWII Victory Medal , American Theater Ribbon Obituary of James "Jimmy" G. Marceline JAMES G. MARCELINE, 92 Lifelong Harwich Resident, Advocate for Education, Entrepreneur James G. “Jimmy” Marceline, 92, passed away peacefully on January 28, 2018. He was the loving husband of the late Elizabeth M. “Lillian” Marceline. Born and raised in Harwich.

James McClean

Veteran

WWI

Lemuel D. Allen

Veteran

WWII

Ralph Graham Carson

Veteran

WWII

Mary George Jacobs

Veteran

WWII

John Francis Jacobs

Veteran

WWII

Rocco E. Paoletta

Veteran

WWII

Kenneth Mudge Brett

Veteran

WWII

Joseph W Crabe

Fought in the Civil War

43rd Mass Inf Civil War

Francis O. P. Carlson

Veteran

WWI 1st LT 102 MG BN 26 DIV

John G. Carlson

Veteran

US merchant marine WWII

Stephen P. Ford

Board of selectman

Elijah Kendrick

Life Saving Service

Gave his life while serving with The Monomoy Life services in a storm off of Monomoy Point

Manuel Jason

Sailor

Manuel G. Gomes

Lost his life trying to save his friend

Town Harwich Boys Drowned. Chester son of Mr. and Mrs Arthur J Nickerosn and a Portuguese lad son of John Gomes all of Harwich went away from their homes yesterday afternoon on pleasure bent, and not returning at night a search was made from them, the worst fears of the anxious familes being later realized. The parents of the boys not knowing where to look for them summoned aid from this village and a large company of friends were out nearly all night when the bodies were found in "Polly Buck's ...

Charles "Sonny" Amado

Musician

Musician member of the Starlighters

Frank D. Foster II

Musician

Founder of The Cape Cod Jazz Society Frank Foster, a saxophonist and composer/arranger best known for his longtime association with the Count Basie Orchestra, has died. He passed away in his sleep early Tuesday morning at his home in Chesapeake, Va., according to his widow and manager, Cecilia Foster. He was 82. Foster was a key member of the "New Testament" Basie band — the large ensemble Basie led in the 1950s and beyond. In addition to his playing on tenor saxophone and other woodwinds, ...

Athena (Tina) Taloumis (Collias)

Musician, opera singer, cook

Athena, also known to everyone as Tina, was born on July 26, 1930 to her Greek immigrant parents, Christos and Theone Collias, in Haverhill, MA. As a young woman, she was told, with proper training, she could have a career as an opera singer, but she took a different and desired path, and married George Taloumis, settling down to raise two sons, Louis and Christopher. Tina owned and operated a shop, Greek Islands in the Carriage House beside her home before retiring. Known for her old world r ...

Agnes (Nan) Berg (Macpherson)

Librarian, organist, choir director, piano, singer

Sang in Choir at Pilgrim Congregational Church as well as a substitute organist at 15 other Cape Cod Churches including traveling to Nantucket church by ferry.

Paul Sullivan

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Edythe Vinci

WWII marine

Served with in WW 2 in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Alexander MacLachlan

Inventor

Developer space gyros systems used for the NASA space missions.

Joseph A. Kelly

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist - "distinguished local reporting on dealine, bank robbery, auto chase and ensuing hour-long gun battle in Pawtucket between a crazed hostage-taker and 150 policemen

Robert B. Our, Sr.

13 year old boy pilots vessel

At 13 years of age he piloted where he was nearly lost at sea. Determined not return to sea he then went on to become the founder of Robert B Our Construction, one of Cape Cod's leaders in Construction.

Clyffeton W. Hill

Inventor of tubeless tire

Orvilla Unel

Author of Lebriz: A Girl of the Harem

Author Lebriz: A Girl of the Harem. Originally from the Midwest, Orvilla Ünel is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied English and Communications. She met her future husband, Nami Ünel, the day she arrived on campus. She encountered the remarkable story of Lebriz Hanim, which had been handed down through the generations, soon after the couple moved to Turkey. Over the next fifty years, Orvilla raised two children, dabbled in various business ventures and served as social ...

Elijah Small

Revolutionary War

Fought In the American Revolutionary War

Richard Rogers

Vietnam

Charles Monbleau

Musician

Ron Marshall was born on September 9, 1932 in Bristol, Connecticut, USA as Milton Charles Monbleau. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of a Man in Search of a Heart: A Joleron Production Starring the Tin Woodman from the Land of Oz (1974), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974) and The Groove Tube (1974). He was married to Phyllis Ackerman. He died on October 14, 2000 in Tarrytown, New York, USA.

Unknown Lynwood

Veteran

Sheldon Crowell

Fought in The Civil War

Clement Cahoon

Civil War Veteran

Fought in in the American Civil War

Stephen Cole

Civil War Veteran

Joseph Chase

Civil War

Served In The U.S. Navy during the Civil War

Alvan Drown

Fought in the Civil War

Osborne Chase

Member of the Monomoy Lifesavers, lost at sea, memorial at Chatham Lighthouse

lost 3/17/1902 in attemping to rescue William H Mach and crew of Barce Wadena with 6 other members of Monomoy Lifesavers. Memorial at Chatham Lighthouse. He married Julia Ann NICKERSON on March 6, 1878, in his hometown. They had five children in 17 years. He died on March 17, 1902, in Chatham, Massachusetts, at the age of 42, and was buried there.

William Jason

Carved Angel Monument

Everlyn Sylvester

WWI Nurse

John Lax

Ice hockey olympics

He was the captain of the Boston University ice hockey team, and was elected to the B.U. Sports Hall of Fame. Mr. Lax was a member of the 1936 Olympic Ice Hockey Team under Walter Brown. American ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He continued to play hockey until World War II.