Updated May 30 Susan Allyn Safford (“Susie”) died in her sleep at her West Tisbury home on Feb. 11, 2023, with her husband Tony Omer by her side, after a courageous two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. She was 75. She was born to Nancy French Safford and Ralph Kirkham Safford on June 10, 1947, in […]
Susan Allyn Safford (“Susie”) died in her sleep at her West Tisbury home on Feb. 11, 2023, with her husband Tony Omer by her side, after a courageous two-year struggle with pancreatic cancer. She was 75. She was born to Nancy French Safford and Ralph Kirkham Safford on June 10, 1947, in Hartford, Conn. Sally […]
Paulette Chapman Loomis, a former member of Falmouth Cultural Council who served six years as chairwoman and was also named a “Local Treasure” by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her
May 6, 2021
Dorothy B. Venter
SOUTHBURY – Dorothy Barnum Venter, of Southbury, died peacefully in her home at Pomperaug Woods on April 27, 2021. She was 107 years old, and she lived an incredibly rich and meaningful life.
She was born six years before women were granted the right to vote, a right she never took for granted. She saw Civil War veterans march in parades as a child, survived two pandemics and two world wars, attended college during the Great Depression, and witnessed many world-altering events over the last century.
Born in Naugatuck to the late Earl M. and Louise Hendrickson Barnum, she was a graduate of Naugatuck High School and Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She shared 45 very happy years with her beloved husband, the late Cmdr. Josiah G. Venter, U.S. Naval Academy, 1912.