Robert John Gilroy, 77

Robert John Gilroy aka “Bob” passed away on Wednesday, September 4 after more than a month in medical care from two cardiovascular surgeries. Bob was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1947 and graduated from New Canaan High School in New Canaan, Conn. He proudly served three years in the Army and achieved the rank of buck sergeant while serving in Vietnam. He moved to California to start a new life and received a BA in Business from CSU Hayward. He worked diligently at the US Postal Service for more than 20 years and finished his career as a dedicated school bus driver for children with special needs.

Thomas Joseph Coughlin, 81

Thomas Joseph Coughlin (Tom) passed away peacefully at Stamford Hospital, surrounded by his loving family on Tuesday August 27th, 2024. He was 81 years old. Tom was born March 22, 1943, in Somerville, MA to the late William and Johanna Coughlin. He was raised in Somerville and graduated Matignon High School, Cambridge, MA in 1960. He attended Boston College where he met his wife, Dorothy Smith Coughlin (Brownie), graduating in 1964.

Milton Clyde Campbell, Jr., 86

Milton Clyde Campbell, Jr. passed away suddenly on August 16th, 2024 at his home in Madison, CT. He was born March 24th, 1938 to Maxine Brawley and Milton Clyde Campbell in Newton, North Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Jane, sons “Buck” Campbell (Meshaan) and Reid Campbell (Sue), daughter Courtney Muller (Roger), grandchildren Ashley Birnbaum (John), Christopher Campbell (Amy), Caroline Muller, Morgan Campbell and Michael Campbell (Kendall) and great grandsons John and Grant Birnbaum. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1960. While at UNC, he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Order of Gimghoul.

Patricia LeFavour

Patricia (Pat) LeFavour (1938-2024), daughter of Margurite Saaf, passed away August 20 listening to jazz at the home of friends in Boise, Idaho. 

Raised to be gentle and lady-like by her industrious mother, Peg, Pat none-the-less became a terror on the streets of New Canan, CT.  With her brother Mike and friend Terry Cody she sought mischief, borrowing cars and boats, running from her father, and using her BB gun in all the ways we teach children not to. Pat grew tall, her black hair long. Photographed with her mother, she was a child model for Family Circle magazine. A member of New Canaan’s Police Auxiliary League gun club, she won trophies for her skill with a gun. By the time she arrived in Aspen, Colorado in the early 1960s, Pat had completed two years of junior college and several semesters of art school in Boston, and had worked in New York City doing layout for magazines.

Georgette Davis Ferrante, 91

Georgette Davis Ferrante “Gette” passed away peacefully on August 2, 2024, surrounded by her children. Born in January 1933 in New York City to Philip and Beverly Davis, she grew up in Greenwich, CT. As the only girl in her family, including nearby cousins, she was doted on and beloved by them all. Then tragedy struck her family with the death of her older brother to leukemia when she was just 14, and right after WWII when the world was reeling from so many deaths and senseless destruction. Perhaps this was why she became a peacemaker with a lifelong conviction that war and conflict were idiotic and mostly perpetrated by men.