Footer Featured Widget

Kathleen Ward Knox, 50

By |

Kathy Knox, age 50, called San Francisco her hometown and she lived there longer than any other place but she returned to New Canaan two years ago to live with her family for health reasons. Due to a genetic condition she passed away peacefully at home October 30th of a ruptured aneurysm of her aorta. 

Kathy was raised in more or less equal parts on Long Island, Hong Kong, and New Canaan and graduated from the Low-Heywood Thomas School and Amherst College before receiving a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Following her graduation from Michigan she lived in San Francisco for twenty three years and worked professionally for non-profits in a fund-raising and public-relations capacity. In the broader community she served for five years on the Public Transportation Commission of the City and County of San Francisco, which was the policy-making body that oversaw the light-rail, bus, and cable car system known as Muni. She was also a Trustee of the San Francisco Lighthouse.

Footer Featured Widget

James Alan MacKenzie, 93

By |

“None of us are deities,” James Alan MacKenzie reminded his loving family who surrounded him when he made the decision himself to live his remaining time on Earth as peacefully as possible. That he was able to live his entire life at the helm of all decision-making proved a hallmark of his life before he left us to be with the love of his life, Joan—known to those who cherished her as Joansie. Jim, or Poppa as his 19 grandchildren and six great grandchildren adoringly called him, was a force of both compassion and strong will. The first baby born in the new hospital in Quincy, Mass. on June 4th in 1926, James Alan MacKenzie was the third child of Margaret McHale and James Barton MacKenzie.

News

Anne Mahar Hussey, 92

By |

Anne Mahar Hussey died peacefully on September 25th with family at her side. She was born in NYC, grew up in White Plains, NY and was the wife of Alexander B. Hussey, who died in 2003. Anne and Al Hussey were owners of the Roger Sherman Inn of New Canaan for 23 years. Al was president of Norwalk’s Board of Realtors and a Captain in World War II, fighting five battles from Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge. Anne’s grandfather, Michael Meagher M.P., served twelve years, representing North Kilkenny, Ireland in the British House of Commons.

Footer Featured Widget

Kaleigh Elizabeth Griffiths, 15

By |

Kaleigh Elizabeth Griffiths, age 15 of New Canaan, CT, died peacefully September 17, 2019 in New York City surrounded by her family.  Born in Greenwich, CT in 2004, she is the daughter of Jacqueline and Sean Griffiths. Kaleigh attended the New Canaan Country School from pre-school on and New Canaan High School for part of 9th grade.  She loved playing lacrosse, ice hockey and soccer for the Town of New Canaan, Winter Club and her school teams.  In addition to being exceptionally smart, athletic and witty, she was an accomplished backyard gymnast, scaring and amazing her parents on a regular basis, and a captivating dancer.  Kaleigh had an effervescent and spunky personality, always fun to be around, and a remarkable and contagious zest for life. In addition to her parents, Kaleigh is survived by her paternal grandfather William Griffiths of Brooksville, FL, her maternal grandparents Natalie Abrams of New York City and Robert Abrams of Larchmont, NY and her siblings, brother Liam Griffiths and sisters Meghan and Sloane Griffiths. She was predeceased by her paternal grandmother Kathleen Griffiths.

News

Victor ‘Vic’ Ferrante, 82

By |

On Saturday, September 21, 2019, his 82nd birthday, longtime New Canaan resident, Victor ‘Vic’ Ferrante passed away peacefully after a prolonged battle with cancer.  Vic was born September 21, 1938 in Chicago to the late Ralph and Josephine Ferrante. Vic was a proud first-generation immigrant, where his parents came over from Italy by way of Ellis Island – his father in 1923 followed by his mother and eldest brother in 1926. Despite being the youngest of their four children, he was instilled with a determined work ethic from a very young age. After graduating Mt. Carmel High School in Chicago in 1955, he joined the Navy where that would provide the financial funding to attend and graduate from The University of Illinois.