• Samantha Yerks’ Valedictorian Speech

    By Published On: July 10th, 2009Categories: Surname: Yerks, Video Stories

  • Valedictorian Samantha Yerks Graduates Port Chester High School

    By Published On: July 8th, 2009Categories: On This Day, Surname: Yerks, Video Stories

    Congratulations to Samantha Jean Yerks, class valediction for the Port Chester High School class of 2009.  She graduated on Saturday, June 27, 2009.  We are all VERY proud of her!  Here is a short photo/video tribute to her.

  • The Roach Family Discovered!

    When I first started doing my genealogy research, I learned that my great, great grandfather, Henry Lewis, married a woman named “Anna Roche”. In fact, my great aunt, Grace Lewis” gave me the first first insight into a family that I had only heard of by name. “Anna Roche was born in Brooklyn, but her

  • Obituary: Speros Condos, longtime resident of Stamford, CT

    By Published On: June 18th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Condos

    Speros Condos, longtime resident of Stamford, CT, passed away Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at the age of 94 at the Stamford Hospital. He was born in Houston, TX on November 26, 1912. He was the son of the late Thomas Condos and Mary Konzotsa Condos. Mr. Condos worked for the Department of Parks and Recreation

  • Princeton Tribute: Ridgely Prentiss Melvin Jr. ’40

    By Published On: June 18th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Hayes

    Maryland special appeals judge and ocean mariner extraordinaire, Ridgely Melvin died at his Annapolis residence on Oct. 11, 1999. Ridge was born and lived almost his entire life at Melvin Point, overlooking the Chesapeake Bay's South River. He came to Princeton from Alexandra, Va., Episcopal H.S., majored in politics, and was a member of Cap

  • Obituary: Elizabeth Sommerville Melvin Patterson

    By Published On: June 18th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Hayes

    Elizabeth Sommerville Melvin Patterson, 80, a five-year resident of the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson and a lifelong resident of Annapolis, died July 24 at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital in Virginia. Known as "Libby" and "Nanny," Mrs. Patterson was born Feb. 10, 1923, in Annapolis, the daughter of the late Judge Ridgely P. and

  • Popular Erie Pennsylvania Alderman Edward Hayes, Dead At 72

    By Published On: June 16th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Hayes (on Lewis Side)

    Here is another obituary article about the very popular Erie Pennsylvania Alderman , Edward Hayes.  This article provides us with a special treat!  It has a picture of the well liked man. He died on March 5, 1926 in Erie, Pennsylvania.

  • Wylda B Nimidoff Obituary – Died November 25, 1986

    By Published On: June 13th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Baron

    Published in the Contra Costa Times on November 27, 1986 MARTINEZ - Wylda B Nimidoff, 81, died Tuesday at the Martinez Convalescent Hospital. A homemaker, Nimidoff was a native of Paterson, N.J., and a resident of Martinez for the last 1-1/2 years. Recitation of the Rosary will be at 6:15 p.m. Friday at Connolly & Taylor

  • Donald William Yerks Sr., 81 World War II veteran

    By Published On: June 9th, 2009Categories: Obituaries, Surname: Yerks

    BERKELEY - Donald William Yerks Sr., 81, of the Bayville section of Berkeley, died Monday, Nov. 24 at home. He has lived in Bayville for the last 46 years, and retired from the Ciba-Geigy Corp. of Toms River in 1984 after working there 20 years. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in