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NAPLES, Fla. - Richard A. Engelke, of Naples, Fla., formerly a longtime New Canaan and Norwalk resident, died Tuesday, March 26. He was 80.

Engelke was born in the Bronx, N.Y., in 1932, son of Catherine ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Horace Edgar Bowler (Pope), formerly of New Canaan, died Tuesday, Feb. 19. He was 92.

Bowler was born in New York City, Dec. 31, 1920, where he grew up. He later lived in New Canaan ...

NEW CANAAN - Barbara May Shepherd, longtime New Canaan resident, died Monday March 18.  She was 98.

Shepherd was born in Boston, Mass., June 16, 1915, daughter of Eldon S. and Edith Crane Clark. After graduating from Michigan State, she taught home economics and then returned to her roots in Boston and started a family.

Shepherd is survived by daughters, ...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. - John Paul Muskus, a New Canaan resident and Greenwich native, died Friday, March 15. He was 83.

Muskus was born May 11, 1929, in Greenwich; son of John and Victoria Trumpka Muskus. He graduated from Greenwich High School. He worked in construction.

Muskus is survived by daughters, Bernadette Fischer (Robert) of Darien and Milissa Knightly ...

FALMOUTH, Mass. - David Bret Carlson of Falmouth, and formerly of New Canaan, died Saturday, March 2. He was 94.

Carlson was born in Jamestown, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1918. He was a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School. His legal studies were interrupted by World War II, when he enrolled in the Officer’s Training program in the U.S. Navy immediately ...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. - Angelina DeFeo, a New Canaan resident for more 45 years, died Saturday March 9. She was 101.

DeFeo was born in San Mango Sul Calore, Italy Sept. 8, 1911; daughter of Giuseppe and ...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. - Elizabeth W. Chilton, of New Canaan, died Tuesday, Feb. 26. She was 81.

Chilton graduated from St. Lawrence Academy and Hunter College in New York City. She retired in 1999 after a ...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. ‒ Joan H. Kelly, of New Canaan, died at her home Thursday, Feb. 21. She was 84.

Kelly was born in Stamford on Sept. 27, 1928, to Florence S. and Frederic K. Heyer. She attended Stamford High School, Class of 1946, and graduated from Green Mountain Junior College in Poultney, Vt., Class of 1948.

She was active in the New Canaan community; ...

NEW CANAAN, Conn. – New Canaan native Ozzie Sweet, a famous photographer whose images appeared on about 1,800 magazine covers, died Feb. 20, at 94.

Sweet was born in Stamford in 1918, according to the New Canaan Historical Society. He lived on Carter Street in New Canaan and attended Stamford High School. He was married to Roseann Faye of Ohio.
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