Obituaries • Dr. Hilke (Thiessen) Breder, 79, of Brattleboro. Died Dec. 7, 2021 at Pine Heights nursing home. Hilke was born on March 7, 1942 in Hamburg, Germany. She attended the Kunsthochschule (Art School) of Hamburg and left Hamburg in 1965 to live in New York City. After a .
Patricia A. Cushman, 74, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. after a courageous battle with Leukemia.
Pat was born on Feb. 10, 1946 in Hadleyville (Lyndonville), Vt., the daughter of Osmer and Wilma (Garron) Farman. Pat spent most of her childhood on the family farm on Bible Hill. It was on the hill where she would meet and later marry her lifelong love, Bug. They married on Jan. 20, 1962 and spent their entire lives on Mt. Pisgah Road, just a few miles from where they were both raised. She attended schools in St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville, Vermont. She was a graduate of Thompson School of Nursing with her LPN and later graduated from Berlin Technical School receiving her RN. She devoted her life to taking care of others. She worked as a geriatric nurse for many years at the St. Johnsbury Convalescent Center and the Pines in Lyndonville. She went on to work as the Nurse Manager at the Concord Health Center in Concord before r