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Barbara Johansen, 89

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February 22, 1935 – September 29, 2024

Barbara Marie Kathleen Busse Johansen, devoted mother, beloved wife, loving sister and aunt, and nationally recognized oncology Social Worker, passed September 29, 2024. 

A daughter of William Richard and Kathleen (McGowan) Busse, Barbara was born in New York City, and raised in Beechurst, NY. Barbara attended Chestnut Hill College, PA, graduating from Fordham University with a BS in Philosophy and Education (1956). At Fordham, Barbara met the love of her life, John Christian Johansen, III. They married in April, 1957. John became an officer and pilot in the US Air Force, as Barbara taught elementary school on Strategic Air Command bases in Maine, North Carolina and Texas.

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Sue S. Gress, 92

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Born to Samuel Jackson Sproule and Alfreda Jones Sproule in Norfolk, Virginia on June 5, 1932, Susan Gerrish Sproule Slemp Gress passed away peacefully in her sleep on September 25, 2024. Sue, as she was known, had been a resident of New Canaan since 1964, was renowned among her large group of family and friends for her lengthy annual Christmas letters she used to bring her friends up-to-date with all of her exploits over the past year along with all the family comings and goings, births, marriages, careers and other adventures. Many looked forward to this “publication” as a spark and reminder to keep up with their broad scope of friends. Beyond being a very busy mother of four children, Sue had two career paths she pursued; one as an office manager, with New Horizons (a corporate relocation business), Wellington & Albrect (the first all female law firm in Connecticut) & Williams & Co (a graphic arts firm), the latter reignited her other career (or better said, passion) as an artist. Her early years as a painter transitioned into her second career as a sculptor in her later years.

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Pamela Jean Libertiny, 72

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Pamela Jean Libertiny of South Salem, NY passed peacefully in her home on Friday, September 27, 2024, with the Love of her life, Attila Libertiny, by her side. After an 8-year battle with metastatic breast cancer we’re comforted to know she is now with God in Heaven. Pam was born to Joseph and Marie Bartolutti on February 2, 1952, in Abington, Pennsylvania. She spent her formative years in Louisville, Kentucky where she attended St Pius X School, Sacred Heart High School and later graduated from Seneca High School. She attended the University of Kentucky graduating with a B.A. in business education and served as the president of the Delta Zeta sorority.

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Sandra Conner Lefler, 79

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Sandra Conner Lefler died peacefully at home in New Canaan on Sept. 24, 2024. She was 79. Born Oct. 31, 1944 in Norwalk, she was the daughter of Selia and Creighton Conner, Sr.

Energetic, single-minded, driven, resilient and proud, Sandra attended Center School, then Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School, where she graduated in 1962.

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Peggy Jean Johnston Atherton, 96

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Jean Atherton, 96, a former resident of New Canaan, Connecticut and Naples, Florida passed away peacefully on September 18, 2024 in Trumbull, CT with her family by her side. Jean, a beloved mother of three, grandmother of nine and great grandmother of four, was born on October 7, 1927, to the late Marjorie Tribit and Eugene Johnston of California and was preceded in death by her loving husband of 58 years, Stanley Howard Atherton. Jean grew up in Beverly Hills and Hermosa Beach, California, studied theater at UCLA and was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority. Jean was a natural leader, serving as president of her high school Girls’ League, president of CT alumni chapter of Alpha Phi, VP of the American Women’s League in Sydney, Australia, VP of the Newcomers Club in New Canaan and a founding member of the Kiwi Club in Naples, FL. 

After graduation in 1949, she joined the pioneering young women in the early days of commercial aviation as an American Airlines stewardess based out of Chicago. She left behind her beloved airline career once married and began her happiest years raising three children, beginning in southern California, then predominately in New Canaan, CT where they moved in 1959 and lived until Stan’s retirement from IBM in 1987.