Richard (Dick) Dann passed away peacefully on January 14, 2026, after a short illness. He was born in NYC on March 1, 1941, to Edward and Edith Gearing Dann. He grew up in several places, Taunton, Springfield and Pittsfield, Mass. Dick, as a teenager, went to Williston Northampton School, then on to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Mass. where he received his engineering degree. He also attended ROTC while in college, then joined the army for active duty as a second lieutenant. Proudly, he served as commanding officer for the 83 Ordinance Company. After discharge, Dick joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in East Hartford. In 1973, he was employed by Penton Publishing in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Assistant Editor of Machine Design Magazine and resided in Westlake, Ohio, with his wife and two sons. In 1988, Dick returned to CT, where he worked at Integrated Custom Software. Dick and Charlene then raised their family in Glastonbury. Close to retirement, Cromwell became their home, where Dick was employed by Cyber Research.

Music was his great love. As a child, he fondly remembered walking around the piano singing with his cousins, as his grandma Gearing played. In college, he started organ lessons and played at several church services. He was the choir director for the United Church of Christ in Columbia, CT, for several years. In 1970, he joined a barbershop chorus, The Silk City Chorus, where he was a member of a quartet. His quartet sang for The Mountain Laurel Chapter of Sweet Adelines and that is where he met the love of his life, Sweet Adeline, Charlene. During their married life, Dick continued singing both in barbershop and church choirs. He always harmonized with his cousins at family events, which was a welcome tradition. After retirement, he also continued organ lessons with Dr. Angela Salcedo, which he loved. He was very knowledgeable about choral music and joined The New England Chamber Choir for a few years. For 38 years, until his death, Dick sang in the Chancel Choir at First Church of Glastonbury. In 2001, he was particularly proud to be chair of the organ committee, being responsible for the purchase of the magnificent Schoenstein Organ.

In their retirement years, Dick and Charlene traveled to see their sons in Maryland and Georgia. They traveled yearly to Florida and Lakeside, Ohio, capturing many moments together of ocean views and sunsets at Lake Erie. When not traveling, they were employed by CDS within Costco, serving samples and having delightful conversations with customers. This job was a special joy to both of them!

Dick was a kind, loving, and gentle husband, father, grandfather, uncle, leaving his wife of 52 years, Charlene Lanza Dann; two sons, Geoffrey Dann and his wife Tracy of Lilburn, Georgia and Anthony Dann and his partner Amanda Lang of Riverdale, Maryland; and three grandchildren, Specialist Logan Dann, Maya Dann and Parker Dann. He was predeceased by his three loving cousins, Thomas Gearing, Alida Vasso, and Dorothy Frieler. He will be fondly missed by his family, nieces and nephews, friends and choir members.

The family would like to give heartfelt thanks to the staff of Water’s Edge Health Care in Middletown. Dick was given excellent care by Sandra, Keanadre, Alexis, Carl, Tyler and Aleshia, plus others not known.

A celebration of his life will be held at First Church of Christ, 2183 Main Street, Glastonbury, CT on February 21 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his honor to the Music Program at First Church, Glastonbury.

David Bryce Fenn, devoted husband, father, engineer, and lifelong sailor, passed away peacefully, May 5, 2026, at the age of 97.

Born on October 26, 1928, David lived a life defined by curiosity and quiet accomplishment. He graduated from the University of Rochester where he met his wife Virginia Ogden. Together they worked at NASA Lewis Research Center (now named Glenn). Virginia retired to raise their three children.

David continued his work with NASA at Lewis in Cleveland where he contributed to early advancements in jet engine and aerospace design during a formative era in American aviation.

Midway through his career, David transferred to Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, OH, where one of the nation’s largest vacuum chambers for deep space simulation was completing construction. He helped commission the new facility and then became Branch Head for an engineering group working on projects using the new facility.

Later, David worked within NASA’s wind energy program, where he was an early and steadfast advocate for three-bladed wind turbine designs, an approach that would ultimately become the industry standard.

Following Virginia’s untimely passing in 1974, David later married Elizabeth Ogden MacBeth. Elizabeth, who had been widowed and had raised three children in Vestal, New York, moved to Ohio, where she and David shared many years together.

At the age of 50, David chose early retirement, turning his focus to family, craftsmanship, and the water he loved. He expanded his cottage into a home on Johnson’s Island, complete with a second-floor sail loft where he made sails for racing boats. He is a past Commodore of Sandusky Sailing Club.

David was deeply committed to his community and faith. He served on several civic boards in his community. He was an active member of Huron Presbyterian Church, where he donated countless hours in service to the church and its congregation.

An avid woodworker, David spent many hours in his shop, happily building windmills and projects for his family, friends and neighbors. In his later years, David enjoyed walking around the island with his camera and capturing photos of the beautiful wildlife. He particularly loved eagles, great blue herons, and the annual appearance of the August lilies.

David was preceded in death by his first wife Virginia Ogden and his second wife Elizabeth Ogden. He is survived by his children, Nancy (Matthew) Buderer, Katherine (William) Thomas, and Tom (Marta) Fenn; and his stepchildren, Debbie (Jerry) Sullivan and Tom (Linda) MacBeth, and grandchildren, Chris, Brittany, Teresa, Bryce, Andy, Ian, and Nathan, and great grandchildren James, Amelia, Charlotte, Eleanor, and Hadley. He will be remembered for his intellect, integrity, craftsmanship, and the steady example he set for those who know him.

Funeral Services will begin at 11am on Friday, May 15, 2026 at First Presbyterian Church, 225 Williams St., Huron, OH 44839, where the family will receive friends beginning at 10am. Burial will be in Scott Union Cemetery, Huron, OH. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to First Presbyterian Church of Huron in David Fenn’s memory.

Having recently celebrated his 97th birthday, with his granddaughter Lizzie celebrating her 33rd, Jack Moye (John H. Moye, Sr.) passed away peacefully, January 10, 2026, at Cape Cod Hospital with family at his side.

He is predeceased by his wife Elizabeth (Bess) Moye, who passed away in 2017.He is survived by his five children—Jack, Jr. of Maryland, Thomas and Richard of Vermont, Timothy of Wisconsin, and Catherine now living in Portugal. He also leaves behind four grandchildren, Elizabeth, Julius, Fiona, and Jake.

Jack was born December 1, 1928, in Massillon, Ohio, to Dorothy Moreland Moye and Harold J. Moye. After the unfortunate and untimely death of his mother, Jack was raised by his grandparents for a time and then by his father and step-mother, Mary Miglich Moye. He was raised primarily in East Orange, NJ, Braintree, MA, and Chatham, MA. In 1951, after graduating from Middlebury College, where he enjoyed playing football and hockey, he married Elizabeth (Bess) Monks and then served three years in the Coast Guard before working for his father, an automobile dealer at the time, in the Boston area. In 1958 he established Granite Chevrolet on Stevens St. in Hyannis, before building a new dealership on Ridgewood Ave. where he worked until 1977. Later he established a dealership for a short time in Rutland, VT, before returning to Chatham and working for Bess at Cabbages & Kings Bookstore, which she had established in the early 80s with her partner and friend Meta Hutchings. The store closed in 2008 when Bess and Jack retired, at which point Jack might be seen running errands or out walking, always with one of his beloved dogs with him.

Jack was fortunate to be able to spend his last years in his own home, despite declining health and independence. Much of that good fortune was due to the fabulously reliable and invaluable care provided by his long-term primary caregiver, Maryann, to whom we are all immensely grateful.

The family is planning a celebration of life to be held at a later date.

Bob Ebersold of Chatham, MA died peacefully at home on Father’s Day, June 21, 2026. He was the loving husband of Lani for 66 years and was the father of Mark (Denver, NC), Debbie (Chatham, MA), Luke (Wethersfield, CT) and Sue (Dennis, MA) as well as a daughter, Kathy, who died in 1979. He also leaves 7 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.

He was born in Hartford, CT in 1940 and raised in Fall River, MA and Holyoke, MA. He graduated from Williston Academy in 1959 and Trinity College in 1963. Bob and Lani retired to Chatham in 1995. Bob spent his entire career with Aetna Life and Casualty in Hartford, CT, other than 2 years in Montreal, Canada. His career started in marketing and then moved through executive assignments in human resources, regulatory affairs, and finally product management and pricing for all commercial property and casualty products. He was very active in property insurance industry affairs serving on the Board of Directors of Florida and Texas windstorm plans and as chairman of the New York Fair Plan. He had a strong interest in sports and was an avid fly fisherman for Atlantic salmon, trout, bone fish, and striped bass. Bob was also a long time member of the Country Club of Farmington, CT.

Ethelbert “Bert” J.L. Cooper, passed away on May 22, 2026, following a prolonged illness.

Ethelbert Julius Llewellyn Cooper, Jr. was born unto the union of E.J. Llewellyn Cooper, Sr. and Isabel Eugenia Simpson Cooper on February 27th, 1954, at the Maternity Center Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.

Bert was raised in the knowledge and nurture of the Lord by his parents, and he was confirmed at the Trinity Pro-Cathedral Church in Monrovia. For his elementary education, he attended the Monrovia Demonstration School, and the Methodist Elementary School, in Sinkor, Monrovia. Bert enrolled at the College of West Africa (CWA) in Monrovia in 1965 as a 7th grader. He remained at CWA up until the 9th grade, when in 1967 he matriculated for studies abroad at the Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA.

Bert graduated high school from Williston in 1970 and was accepted into Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut for his college education. At Yale, he was a member of Silliman Residential College, and he also was a member of the Society of Book and Snake.

Bert completed his coursework for a BA in Economics and graduated from Yale in 1974. It is noteworthy to state that Bert completed his degree in 3 and half years and immediately returned home to Liberia in December 1973 to commence his professional career. He was so committed to his career, that he saw the formality of the graduation exercises in May 1974 as something he could skip and remained at work in Liberia.

Bert was recruited by the Liberian government out of college to help establish a new public corporation, The Liberia Development Corporation (LDC). He was appointed to the role of Assistant Managing Director, a position in which he served from 1974-1975. In 1975, he was hired to be the Special Assistant to the Minister of Labor, Youth and Sports. He was later promoted to become the Assistant Minister for Administration, the principal operating official of the Ministry.

Bert married Caroline Bendu Smythe on December 1st, 1977, and from this union they had three daughters Michele Bendu, Tanya Diane and Natasha Elena.

Bert decided to leave government and to go into the private sector in 1977, whereupon he embarked on a very successful career as a businessman. He either founded, was instrumental in establishing, or was the principal Liberian shareholder at Uiterwyk Shipping Lines, West African Shipping Lines, West Africa Timber Lines, Xerox Liberia, and Africa Investment Company (“AFINCO”).

Bert became a leading expert straddling the intersection of government and the international private sector in Liberia’s iron ore industry. This had its roots when he was appointed as adviser to the Liberian Minister of Finance, in the Minister’s role as a Chairman of the LAMCO Joint Venture (“LJV”), the country’s largest iron ore project. The LJV was created in the 1960s under a partnership between prominent Swedish interests, America’s second-ranking steel producer, Bethlehem Steel and the host government. When established in the 1960s, the LJV was Africa’s largest foreign investment project (equivalent value in today’s terms, in excess of US$4 billion). Bert’s activities as the Chairman’s adviser put him into regular contact with the LJV’s Swedish and American owners and nurtured on his part an in-depth knowledge of the global seaborne iron ore sector, and its impact on, and future growth potential for Liberia.

After the violent military coup that destabilized the nation of Liberia in 1980, Bert moved his family to Reston, Virginia in the USA, and after arriving as political refugees, proceeded to start his business activities from scratch. Harking back to his unique expertise in the Liberian iron ore sector, Bert formed a US company, ICB (America) Inc. in McLean, VA which worked closely with senior management of the then Bethlehem Steel Corporation of Bethlehem, PA and in 1984 organized the friendly transfer of Bethlehem’s interest in the LAMCO JV iron ore mining project to a new vehicle company owned by the Government of Liberia (named “Liminco”), and in overseeing the subsequent management of this LJV component company.

In 1986, Bert moved his primary personal residence to London, UK, since the business facilities in Europe were more conducive to Bert’s career-long focus on African natural resources projects. However, throughout most of the intervening period, he maintained part-time residences in the US, either in Northern Virginia or in New York City.

In 1988-89, Bert proceeded to organize the transfer of the last remaining foreign interest in the LJV (Granges Mining/Electrolux AB of Sweden) to Liminco, putting the full management and ownership of the project under local Liberian control. In the era of Liminco ownership, Bert oversaw the arrangement of the company’s financial and ore-marketing activities. Post transfer, he was responsible for full management of the entire LJV asset (8mtpa), and its work force of 3,000 people (ore mining, processing, transportation, marketing, and overall project administration and relationships with suppliers).

Bert was a veteran entrepreneur in the international natural resources sector, but he was also an important sponsor of academic, artistic and social endeavors relating to the African continent.

His skills in project development and his equally broad capital markets experience provided a unique combination of expertise for his preferred African focus. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Bert played the central role in the reorganization of the iron ore sector of his country of birth, Liberia. More recently, he has planned and implemented large-scale iron ore initiatives in Liberia, Cameroon, and Guinea.

In the oil & gas sector, during the early 2000s, Bert founded a London Stock Exchange (LSE) listed petroleum company that attained a market value of nearly US$3 billion and was active in twelve countries. He also led and brought to fruition Europe’s pioneering LNG (gas)-to electric power project.
His strong engagement, reputation and accomplishments in the oil and gas and iron ore sectors of West and Central Africa will be longstanding.

With over 35 years of experience in the African natural resources sector, Bert was involved in a wide range of other highly successful ventures, including present innovative new African international bond-placement and oil and LNG projects. During the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, he devised initiatives that proactively sought to counter the relevant economic and social dislocations.

Bert was a generous supporter of several institutions both within Liberia and internationally. In Liberia he has supported the Episcopal Church of Liberia, specifically the Trinity Cathedral Church in Monrovia (his home church in Liberia), where he donated a church organ in memory of his family. In 2013, Bert fully paid for the purchase and installation of a new main organ at the Trinity Cathedral in Monrovia, Liberia. He also supported the Episcopal Church’ Bromley School for Girls in Virginia, Liberia, by establishing a Computer Science Laboratory and providing other financial assistance in the memory of his mother – who both attended and taught at the school.

As a graduate and distinguished alumnus of Yale University, Bert was the founding donor of Yale’s first scholarship program for African students, and he was a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities.

At Harvard University, Bert was the founding sponsor of a Gallery of African & African American Art on the university’s campus, an advisory board member of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, and a recipient of Harvard’s prestigious W.E.B. Du Bois medal for outstanding work in the field of African and African American Studies.

Bert was also a Patron of the Awareness Foundation, an international peace-building charity in the United Kingdom, alongside its Chief Patron, HRH, the Duchess of Wessex.

Bert was a family treasure, a precious son, devoted husband, loving father, amazing brother, supportive uncle, faithful family man, and generous friend. We are grateful for the time we had with this incredible man, our family champion!

Bert’s memory will always be a blessing. He was an outstanding leader, visionary, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who touched many lives with his compassion and generosity. He was preceded in death by his parents, E.J. Llewellyn Cooper Sr. and Isabel Simpson Cooper Norris, his Aunt Eupheme Weeks (Rocheforte), Aunt Cynthia Kamara (Samba), and his sister Emma Gloria Cooper Holder. He is survived by his wife, Caroline Bendu, daughters, Michele Cooper Elisio (Nico), Tanya Cooper Mathieu, Natasha Cooper Rio D’Oria (Luca), grandchildren Caricie Mathieu, Lemuel Mathieu, and Roman Rio D’Oria; his siblings, Patience Cooper Saines (Terry), Joy Cooper Burnette (Emmette), Juliet Cooper Allen (Hank), Daubeny B. Cooper III (Anita), Angelique Cooper McGlotten (Kyle), Isabel Cooper Mendy (Pierre), Aunt Trypetus Padmore, Uncle Gerald Cooper (Roberta), Uncle Randolph Cooper (Eudeen), Uncle Seward Cooper (Anne), and a host of nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, and many, many cousins.

In London, Bert and his family worship at Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Square.

We will surely miss Bert, but we take heart because we believe the scripture that says, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” ( 2 Corinthians 5:8). He can now rejoice in the presence of our heavenly Father with the family who has gone before.

“Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same; but as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again!”
(Ron Tranmer)