Frances V. Antupit, age 91, of Cambridge, MA, passed away on December 12, 2025. Born to Sylvia Feinberg Antupit and Dr. Louis Antupit, on October 5,1934, she grew up in West Hartford, CT. Frances, or known to many as Frannie, attended Northampton School for Girls, and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1957.

Employed as a professional photographer, she joined Koby Photography Studios later that year in the heart of Cambridge’s Harvard Square. Frances’ career grew as she became the owner in 1978 of what would be known as Koby-Antupit Studios. Frances was a pioneering woman-owned proprietor of that landmark establishment. Her renown as a portrait photographer and that of the Studio spanned over six decades, serving the diverse clientele of the greater Cambridge and Harvard communities. Frances was active in the local community and resided in the Harvard Square, Commons and East Cambridge/Charles River neighborhoods.

Predeceased by her older brother, Samuel N. Antupit; Frances is survived by her nieces and nephews, Lisa (Antupit) Besen, Jennifer (Antupit) Sharp, godson Stephen M. Antupit and Peter L. Antupit. Frances was a dear friend to many, and much-loved also as great-aunt to eight and great-great-aunt of three. All will deeply miss her eye for beauty, quirky and irreverent sense of humor, thoughtfulness, loyalty, creativity and independent spirit.

A Celebration of Frances will be held in Newton, MA, on Saturday, April 4, 2026.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Cambridge Historical Commission, 831 Massachusetts Ave., 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139 where her portraits are archived.

May Elizabeth Nutting Bigelow passed away December 8, 2025, in Landgrove, Vermont. May was a beloved figure in the mountain towns of southern Vermont, known for her gregarious, fun-loving, and nurturing personality.

She was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1937, to Marion Heminway and Harry Otis Nutting II. Her early childhood in Lebanon was marked by the absence of her father while he fought in the Philippines during World War II. Between helping in the family Victory Garden and collecting aluminum for the war effort, she developed habits of thrift she retained for life.

She was a scholarship student at Northampton School for Girls and met her husband, David S. Bigelow III, while working as a counselor at Mamie Ogden’s Landgrove camp during Smith College’s summer break. May joined Dave on a peripatetic career that led them to England, Canada, Brazil, and France; she became fluent in French and adored France for its art, architecture, and her friends there. In her early 50s she returned with Dave to Landgrove where she lived until her death.

May contributed to every community she was a part of, and her activities including fundraising for the Friends of Old French Houses, leadership roles in the historical societies of Landgrove and Weston, and serving as a commissioner of the Landgrove Cemetery. She loved classical music and other arts, tennis, skiing, gardening, reading, and travel.

She is predeceased by her husband and son David; survivors include her sister Nancy ’51 and her brother Harry; children Seth (Melva); Hope (John) and Jonathan (Tove); grandchildren David, Andrew, Kira, Leo, George, Ira, Holt, James, Sam, Anna, Mary Sofie, Magnus, and Helena; and great-grandson Cameron.

A memorial service will be held at 2pm, December 27, 2025, at Burr and Burton’s Mountain Campus in Peru. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to Neighborhood Connections or the Londonderry Rescue Squad.

Mariann (Pilch) Robertson, 79, of Medway, Massachusetts, died peacefully on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at her home. She was the beloved wife of Richard Vernon Robertson who died in 1998.

Born in Ware on December 20, 1945, she was the daughter of the late John S. and Mary A. (Bigda) Pilch.

Mariann was a resident of Medway for the past 56 years. She grew up in Ware, graduated from the former Northampton School for Girls, and earned an associate’s degree from the former Green Mountain College in Vermont.

Before her retirement, she worked at various insurance agencies for many years. She also worked at MIT in the 1960’s and got to meet some of the astronauts from the space program

She is survived by her brother David Pilch and his wife Ellen of Ware, her sister-in-law, Lucille Pilch of Ware, and nieces and nephews.

She was the sister of the late John J. Pilch.

Mariann’s funeral arrangements will be held privately at the request of her family and are under the care of the Ginley Crowley Funeral Home, 3 Barber Street in Medway.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in Mariann’s memory to Project Comeback, 583 Adams St., Holliston, MA 01746.

Barbara Schoof was known to her friends as a woman of faith and a prayer warrior with a strong and deep love for God and her family. Barbara passed peacefully on October 12, 2025 at AVOW Hospice in Naples, Fl.

Barbara was born July 22, 1932, the daughter of Evalyn and Charles. Barbara attended the Northampton School For Girls in Northampton, Mass. While there, she became fluent in French and her friends teased her of being “deceivingly innocent.” A shy, quiet girl, she loved her family’s dogs – Scotties and Great Danes – as well as sitting on the floor reading with her father. During World War II, she and her father followed the skirmishes on a huge wall map where her father would place pins on the map to signify the war’s movements. In 1941, the War Department asked for blond female hair; Barbara donated her long, strawberry blond hair to the war effort.

Barbara attended Bethany College, where she met her future husband, Robert Schoof. They married in the Hamptons, Long Island on June 29, 1951. One year later, Barbara worked in a bank and when her pregnancy began to show, she was fired but her patient spirit was rewarded when their son Steven was born on December 14, 1952. To save money while Bob finished college, they moved to Verona, NJ to live with his parents. Eventually, they moved to Arbutus, MD and bought a home. Early on one Christmas Day in 1955, Barb and Bob woke Steve and her parents to have a brief Christmas, then off to the hospital, where Barb said that she was always grateful for the “lovely Jewish doctor” who delivered their daughter Jill. When Jill was 5 and Steve 8 years old, Barb and Bob became Christians and decided to move to Roslyn, PA so that Bob could attend Westminster Theological Seminary. Following his graduation, they moved the family to various East Coast locations as Bob was a minister and church planter. On May 18, 1968, Barb and Bob were blessed to have their second son Andrew, who later in life gave them the pure joy, laughter and love of grandchildren. During Barbara’s time of raising children and being a minister’s wife, she played the church organ and piano. As a trained classical pianist, she was asked to go on tour, but declined because of her desire to be close to family. She was also routinely recruited to “try out” her father’s inventions when he worked for Squibb and Becton-Dickerson; Barb was so proud of his most famous invention, the disposable syringe. On long car rides, Bob and Barb always had an ongoing “friendly argument” on the date of his invention, 1953 or 1955? It turned out that they were both correct! – her father invented the disposable syringe in 1953, but the patent didn’t come through until 1955. In any case, the discussion always stopped when Barb said, “Well, I should know, he was my father!” A “friendly teasing” between Barb and Bob always happened at Christmas time – did the spinning ornament move because of light or heat from the tree lights?

Barb and her husband so enjoyed doing projects together, designing ponds and gardens and of course, moving furniture and walls! Their projects came to an abrupt halt when Bob passed away peacefully on September 16, 2010. After being married for nearly 60 years, nothing has been the same for Barb, she loved her husband and being his wife was one of her true joys in life.

In 2013, Barbara moved with her family to Marco Island. She was a member of Marco Presbyterian Church, where her older son is a pastor. During her time on Marco Island, she looked forward to attending weekly Bible studies, going to the library, walking to Publix and especially spending quality time with her family.

Barbara is predeceased by her parents and her husband Robert. She leaves behind her son Steven (Beth), daughter Jill, son Andrew (Rhonda) and grandchildren Haley and Trenton. Although her family will miss her kind words, gentle spirit and beautiful smile, they know that she is happy seeing her Heavenly family and being cradled in the arms of her Lord Jesus.

A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, October 22 at 1 p.m. at Marco Presbyterian Church. Attire casual and respectful. Donations may be made in Barbara’s name to Marco Presbyterian Church, 875 W. Elkcam Circle, Marco Island, Fl 34145. In honor of Barbara’s love of spiritual music, donations will go toward the purchase of new ‘Sing’ hymnals.

Constance (Connie) Duane Donahue, 93, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, passed away on October 22, 2025. Born November 30, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of the late Marshall and Madeline Duane.

Connie became a Roman Catholic at the age of seven while attending The Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. She graduated high school from Northampton School for Girls in 1949 and earned her degree in Early Childhood Education from Connecticut College for Women in 1953. She obtained her Master of Arts in Theology from St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado in May 1988.

After college graduation, Connie moved to Providence, Rhode Island to teach kindergarten, where she met her husband, Edward Thomas Donahue (deceased 2020), in January 1954. They married later that year and went on to have eight children: Mary, James, John, Ann, Edward, Michael (deceased 2023), Stephen, and David (deceased 2017). Connie was blessed with 21 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Connie and Ed lived in many places during their marriage – Massachusetts, New York, Colorado, Michigan, California, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Throughout her life, Connie made a significant impact on her community. She founded the Great Books Club in Denver and later taught CCD to middle and high school students in St. Joseph, Michigan. In 1988, Connie and her family moved to Arizona, where she served as a docent at the Heard Museum in Phoenix for 12 years. She was a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Thomas of Aquinas Catholic Church in Avondale, Arizona.

Her faith and dedication to family and others touched many lives. Her favorite saint was St. Clare of Assisi, and her Catholic faith was greatly influenced by philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who said “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

Her funeral Mass will be on Thursday, October 30th, at 1:00 p.m. at St. Thomas of Aquinas Catholic Church in Avondale, with a private family-only inurnment following the Mass. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Avondale, Arizona (https://www.jp2catholic.org/apps/pages/make-a-gift). Connie will be deeply missed by her family and all who knew her.

With heartfelt grief, we announce the passing of Elizabeth Anne Stevens Winship on May 24, 2024, at the age of 94.

Elizabeth was born October 20, 1929 in Worcester, MA to John Howard and Annie Betsy Cameron Stevens. She grew up in North Brookfield, MA where she witnessed a bank robbery among other adventures.

She attended Bryn Mawr and then Stanford University where she met the love of her life, Emory Winship V. They married on August 12, 1950, in North Brookfield. She and Emory returned to the San Francisco Bay Area and welcomed their first three children: Tannis Anne, Emory Stevens, and John Duncan Cameron. After an appropriate introduction to South Georgia by being left waiting, sweltering, at the train station, she and Emory settled on St Simons Island where they produced their final child, Douglas Alexander Beauregard.

Having largely raised her children, she resumed her educational career, earned a Master’s in Library Science from Georgia Southern University, and pursued a career in education. Her educational pursuits were emblematic of her lifelong thirst for intellectual enrichment, both of herself and of anyone she encountered. She had a special love for a good book, the Wall Street Journal, and a good bourbon… and a special loathing of aircraft. She would have enjoyed correcting any minor errors in this announcement.

In her final decades, she enjoyed looking over the marshes on Amelia Island, FL and escaping the heat by spending time in Stratham, NH.

She is preceded in death by her husband Emory (1994) and outlived her brothers (John and Duncan), their wives (Betty and Victoria), and two daughters-in-law (Gloria and Vicky). To her amazement there are still people on the planet that survived her and will miss her: her children Tannis Parker (William W), Emory Winship (Johanna), Cameron (Julie), and Douglas (Margaret); eleven grand children; and eleven great grandchildren and counting.

The funeral will be a private service at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please direct donations to either the Brunswick-Glynn County Library or the Nassau County Public Library System.

Barbara Bisgyer Cohn, 92, died June 8, 2025 at her home in Portland, Oregon. Born June 7, 1933 in New York City to parents Betsy Vogel and Edgar Peierls. She grew up with sister Emily, mother and stepfather Charlie Evans in Greenwich, CT and attended Sarah Lawrence College.

She married Melvin Bisgyer and had daughters Marcia, Ann and Susan. After a divorce, she moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and began working in an advertising agency. She began doing sculpture in bronze as a hobby, won awards and was soon represented by Environment Gallery in NYC.

She married Eric Cohn and moved to Rye, NY, and the blended family included his sons Andy and Lee. Continuing her name Barbara Bisgyer for art, her sculpture style evolved to capture motion, such as a fisherman throwing out a net or a girl twirling to create a flared skirt. She was featured in Q Magazine as one of NY’s up and coming artists. She was also featured in a 1980 New York magazine cover article headlined, “The Great Maid Robberies,” for tracking a group of maids stealing millions of dollars in jewelry. She interviewed dozens of victims and then set up a trap house to capture fingerprints and photos. Her work led to the arrest and conviction of the jewel theft ring.

She is survived by daughters Marcia Bisgyer (Albert Avallone), Philadelphia; and Susan Bisgyer (Carol Blenning), Portland; stepsons Andrew Cohn (Virginia), Long Beach, CA; and Lee Cameron (Lee Cunningham), Paris, France; son-in-law John Wolz, Portland; six grandchildren; half-brothers E. Jeffery Peierls and Brian Peierls; and five great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by husband Eric Cohn, daughter Ann Bisgyer Wolz and sister Emily Wingert. A Celebration of Life is pending.

Louise Pelton Montague, 92, died peacefully surrounded by family members on May 12, 2025, at Linda Manor in Leeds, Massachusetts. Born in Northampton MA in 1932, she was the daughter of Alden Pelton and Gladys Pelton Parent. She was a 1950 graduate of Northampton High School and took a post-graduate year at The Northampton School for Girls. She studied at the University of Massachusetts until her employment at Northampton National Bank which ended when she was married.

She is survived by Sidney A Montague, her husband of 71 years. Louise and Sidney settled in Westhampton, Massachusetts where she was an active member of both the Westhampton and the Northampton communities. She served on the Hampshire Regional School Committee. She was the librarian at the Westhampton Public Library for eleven years and continued to volunteer there following her retirement. She sang alto in the choir at the Westhampton Congregational Church and served as a Deaconess. In her later years she attended Edwards Church where she was a lifetime member and served as Clerk. She volunteered at The Cooley Dickinson Hospital for many years.

Small in stature, but strong in spirit, she lived a full and active life despite her lifelong struggle with Crohn’s Disease and later with Dementia. She travelled with Sid to Bermuda and Scotland and to several states in the U.S. Her weekly schedule was filled with volunteering, mastering modern technology, playing Bridge, taking oil painting lessons, tracing family genealogy, gardening, and adventuring with The Red Hat ladies. She was a member of the Worthington Country Club. She achieved the ultimate golfing goal: a hole in one at East Mountain. Louise collected pineapples, a symbol of warmth, friendship, and generosity, which reflected her values. She treasured her family and friendships. She enjoyed socializing and travelling with her friends and welcomed all to her home. Lou’s favorite place was Willoughby Lake in Westmore, Vermont. She shared this beautiful area with friends and family for almost eighty years. Every summer she looked forward to visiting the second community she had developed there. Never one to slow down, she bought herself a new kayak at the age of seventy and enjoyed paddling around the lake. Louise had felt lonely as an only child and planned to have a big family. She and Sid had five children who provided her with built-in game players: she loved playing cards and board games.

She leaves behind her children: Kim Montague (Joe Gazillo), Jill Montague, Robin Montague (Susan Wilder), Todd Montague (Lani Montague), Troy Montague, and Star Montague (her beloved miniature schnauzer).

She leaves behind her grandchildren: Chelsea Gazillo, Julia Gazillo (Daryl Barone), Alden Montague, Rose Montague, and her honorary grandchildren Brianna London (Charles Greb), Jenna London (Ben Rubin), and Gabrielle Wilder. She also leaves behind cousins and nieces and nephews.

Louise was able to live in her home for most of her life thanks to the care of her husband and children. She spent the last year of her life in the Life Enrichment Program at Linda Manor, and we thank the staff there for the care she received from them.

Calling hours for Lousie will be held at Ahearn Funeral Home, 783 Bridge Rd., Northampton on Tuesday May 20, 2025, from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at the Edwards Church, 297 Main St. Northampton at 11:30 A.M. Burial in Westhampton Center Cemetery will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Friends of the Westhampton Public Library, 1 North Rd., Westhampton, MA. 01027 or The Edwards Church, 279 Main St., Northampton, MA. 01060

Caroline Gavin Arnold, 95, died peacefully on April 1, 2025 at the Linda Manor Skilled Nursing Facility in Leeds, Massachusetts. We have lost our wonderful mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt, and friend.

Caroline was born to Helen and Phillip Gavin in 1930 and raised with her three older sisters Phyllis (“Bunny”) ’37, Sarah (“Sally”) ’39, and Mary ’44 in Norton, Massachusetts. She received her education at Northampton School for Girls, founded by her Aunt Sarah Whitaker, and Sophie Newcombe College of Tulane University which she left to marry Richard D. Pickett and start a family. She was proud to finish her college education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she graduated with a degree in Anthropology at the age of 37. At UMASS, she also worked as an assistant to the Dean of Foreign Students and attended graduate level seminars. Passionate about native plants, she received a Certificate in Native Plant Studies from The New England Wildflower Society at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA in 1998.

Caroline and her first husband settled in Leeds with their three children. In 1958 they moved to a home on Puffer’s Pond in Amherst which became her oasis. She was always the first person to take a swim in the early spring and the last in the late fall. She skated there in the winter and traversed the local trails on foot and cross-country skis.

Caroline divorced in 1966 and remarried Dr. Gordon Arnold and became stepmother to his five children. Through the UMASS Anthropology Department they formed a wide and eclectic circle of lifelong friends. Caroline and Gordon enjoyed adventures together such as alpine skiing in Europe, stints in Grenada and Thailand where Gordon volunteered his surgical skills and many foreign trips with their friends including to Central America, Europe, and Morocco.

Throughout her life, Caroline maintained a keen curiosity and a thirst for learning. She could pretty much do anything she set her mind to and would tackle any project-whether it be butchering a deer or restoring antique furniture and gilded picture frames. Among her other varied skills, she was a talented watercolor artist, expert gardener, invasive plant crusader, naturalist, and exceptional cook/baker. In her younger days, she raised, groomed and showed poodles and also lent a hand grooming the family Morgan horses. While helping her children fix up their homes, she acquired the nickname “Granny Gooper” (referencing joint compound) after developing a talent for drywall installation.

Caroline relished good food, good drink, and good company. She was an early adopter of Julia Child’s cookbooks and brought home recipes from her travels abroad that inspired countless feasts for friends and family. She was a sucker for blue-eyed men including Bing Crosby, Paul Newman, her first husband Richard, her second husband Gordon, and her last gentleman friend John Murphy whom she met in her late 80s while residing at the Lathrop Community.

Caroline was one of a kind and a true bon vivant. She will be remembered as smart, funny, fearless, and incredibly generous to those who knew and adored her. She taught us to be serious about what you love but not take yourself too seriously.

She is survived by her three children, Molly Pickett (m. Steve Tirrell), Jack Pickett ’72 (m. Julie Pickett), Lucy Pickett, three stepchildren, four grandchildren, four great grandchildren as well as many beloved nieces and nephews and dear friends.

In lieu of flowers,donations can be made to Trustees of the Reservation at thetrustees.org or Kestrel Land Trust at kestreltrust.org

Our family would like to thank the staff on Forestview unit at Linda Manor for their care.

Leslie Baldwin Nichols Kremer died on March 14, 2025 in the early morning hours as the crow moon set in the west and dawn was breaking on the horizon.

Leslie was born on Oct. 16, 1937, to Henry Baldwin Nichols and Esther Shears Nichols in Worcester, Mass. She spent her early childhood in Litchfield, Conn., with her two sisters Julie and Hope and younger brother Hank.

Leslie attended Colby College, where she majored in English. In her first year, when Leslie was only 18, her mother died in a tragic car accident. The loss of her beloved mother stayed with her for the rest of her life. She was incredibly fortunate that her father remarried, and her stepmother Deborah entered her life.

During her college years, Leslie spent many winter weekends skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain, and after graduation, moved to North Conway, N.H., to teach second grade at John H. Fuller School. Leslie went on to become a kindergarten teacher in the Fryeburg, Maine, school district where for many years she influenced a host of young people, teaching kindness alongside the ABCs.

In 1961, she married Bretton Russell, whom she met skiing at Sugarloaf. Together they had four daughters: Jessica, Melanie, Kristen and Hilary. Eventually Leslie and Brett divorced but they maintained a close friendship. The respect they showed each other was an example for family and friends alike.

When Leslie was in her early 50s, she decided to explore her love of cooking, and in 1988 embarked on this new adventure by going to Grasmere, England, where she worked in the kitchen at Michael’s Nook. She returned home with an increased passion for cooking and became a sous chef at Chez Alain in Conway. She went on to cook at the Snowvillage Inn where she became lifelong friends with a number of amazing people.

Her love of travel and desire for adventure took her to the 7D Ranch in the Sunlight Basin in Cody, Wyo., and the Flying E Ranch in Arizona, where she was head chef.

In 1992, she met John Kremer III. It was love at first sight for John and it didn’t take Leslie long to realize she felt the same. They shared a love of travel, cooking, walking and hiking the White Mountains, as well as cross-country skiing. They were married in June 1994, in the backyard of her Fryeburg home, surrounded by their children. They had many wonderful adventures together, including volunteering for the Peace Corps in Lithuania for two years.

Leslie was an amazing gardener. When her children were looking for her, they knew they’d find her tending her gardens. She was an incredible cook. Her kitchen always smelled of blueberry muffins, or some other wonderful baked treat, homemade soups, or a scrumptious roast pork with the perfect potatoes. She was a generous, kind soul who never hesitated to help someone in need. She was a natural teacher and nurturer. Family was immensely important to her, as was community. She volunteered as a cook at the Dinner Bell and two thrift shops.

Leslie leaves behind her husband, John Kremer III; her children Jessica and her husband, Filippo, of Foligno, Italy; Kristen and her husband, David, of Fryeburg, Maine; Hilary and her husband, Rene, of Foligno, Italy; her stepchildren John IV and Erika of London UK, Ellen Christian of Bartlett, N.H.; her grandchildren Allison and Camilla Battoni, Henry and Milo Kremer, Theo and Max Christian, Silva and Eyob Treiser Brown; her oldest sister Julie Cook ’51; as well as many wonderful nieces and nephews and their children who she loved very much. The family would like to thank her “chosen family” Jessyca Broekman who painted with Leslie and enjoyed many walks with her, especially in her final years, and Leslie’s caretaker, Deborah Parker, who loved and cared for her and John deeply.

She is predeceased by her parents Esther and Henry Nichols, her stepmother Deborah Nichols, her infant daughter Melanie, her sister Hope Zanes Butterworth ’54 and her brother Hank Nichols.

It has been a long “goodbye” as dementia took away bits of Leslie, but at her core she was always there, and to the end knew her daughters and husband. Leslie’s kindness, her love for family and friends, her wisdom, her radiant smile, her sparkle in her eyes, her enjoyment of music (classical, musicals, folk, rock and reggae), her sense of humor, her contagious laugh and njoyment of all living things will be great missed.

Arrangements were made through Furber Funeral Home and Cremation Services. A celebration of Leslie’s life will be announced at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider planting or caring for a tree in Leslie’s memory (she loved trees), cook for someone in need of a good meal or show a stranger kindness … this is what Leslie would appreciate.