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OBITS (Carroll; Hoyt; Shreders; Sherman)
Elizabeth Carroll
Elizabeth Kollin Carroll, 84, of Monroe died Monday, May 4, 1998, in Ashlar of
Newtown. Mrs Carroll was born in New York City and had been a Monroe resident
for 15 years. She was the wife of the late Anthony C. Carroll and is survived
by four daughters, Joanne Schulz of California, Patricia Carroll of Shirley,
N.Y., Elizabeth LeDeoux of Mastic Beach, N.Y., and Virginia Gaffney of Monroe;
a brother, Walter Kollin of Naples, Fla.; 12 grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be private at the convenience of
the family. There will be no calling hours. Contributions may be made in her
memory to the St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation, 2800 Main Street,
Bridgeport, Conn. 06611.
Arrangements by the Redgate-Hennessy Funeral Home, Main Street and Gorham Pl.,
Trumbull.
The Newtown Bee May 15, 1998
Adele V. Hoyt
Adele Vickery Hoyt, 91, of Palm Coast, Fla., formerly of Newtown and
Southbury, died Wednesday at Memorial Hospital in Flagler. She was the widow
of Raymond H. Hoyt.
Mrs Hoyt was born in Bronx, N.Y., February 15, 1907, the daughter of the late
John H. and Amanda Aders Kerkmann. She grew up in Rockaway, N.Y., and lived in
Springdale, Conn. She was a resident of Newtown for 25 years before moving to
Heritage Village in Southbury in 1985; she had just recently moved to Florida.
She was an active member of the Newtown Garden Club and a member and former
president of the Springdale Garden Club.
Mrs Hoyt is survived by two sons, George A. Hoyt of Palm Coast, Fla., and
Richard L. Hoyt of Bethel, Conn.; one sister, Winifred Star of Montauck, LI,
N.Y.; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; one
great-great-granddaughter.
Memorials may be made to Regional Hospice of Western Conn., 30 West Street,
Danbury, Conn. 06810.
A service will be held at the Bethel Funeral Home, 215 Greenwood Avenue,
Bethel, at 8:30 on Sunday and a graveside service will be at Newtown Village
Cemetery, Newtown, Conn., Monday at 11 am with the Reverend Robert T. Johnson
officiating.
The family will receive friends at the Bethel Funeral Home Sunday evening from
7 to 8:30 pm.
The Newtown Bee May 15, 1998
Irma P. Shreders
Irma P. Shreders, 86, formerly of Idleview Drive, Naugatuck, died Saturday,
May 9, at Crescent Manor in Waterbury.
Mrs Shreders was born June 28, 1911 in Round Hill, the daughter of the late
Edward A. and Helen Purdy.
She leaves three sons, Alvin Shreders of Waterbury, Wayne Shreders of
Litchfield, and Kurt Shreders of Manheim, Penn.; four sisters, May Stotinger
and Connie Allen, both of Concord, Vt.; Betty Bailey and June Lewis, both of
Plymouth, N.H.; and seven grandchildren. A son, Marvin P. Shreders, is
deceased.
Burial is at the family's convenience. There are no calling hours.
Arrangements by Snyder Funeral Home, 114 Willow Street.
The Newtown Bee May 15, 1998
Dr Robert Sherman
Dr Robert S. Sherman, 88, of Roxbury died Sunday, May 3, at New Milford
Hospital. He was the husband of Dr Ruth Snyder.
Dr Sherman was born May 17, 1909, in Pawtucket, R.I., the son of the late
Frank E. and Harriot E. Pollard Sherman.
He graduated from Pawtucket Senior High School in 1927, received his PhD from
Brown University in 1931, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School in
1935.
He interned at Pawtucket Memorial Hospital and Long Island College in
Brooklyn, N.Y., specializing in radiology. He was chairman and attending
radiologist in the Department of Diagnostic Roentgenology at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and a consultant in radiology
at IBM Medical Department.
He was a professor at New York Hospital and a clinical professor of radiology
at Cornell University Medical College. He published numerous books and
articles on cancer diagnosis and radiology.
Dr Sherman added 56 acres to the Roxbury Land Trust in memory of Brian E.
Tierney in 1974, and in 1957 purchased a 13.4-acre tract on Lake Lillinonah
and gave it to the town of Roxbury as Sherman Park. He was a Roxbury resident
for 49 years and a member of St John's Episcopal Church in Washington, Conn.
Besides his wife, he leaves two sons, Robert Snyder Sherman of Pelham, N.H.,
and Roger Holmes Sherman of Northport, N.Y.; a daughter, Ruth Ann Perkins of
Finksburg, Md.; and nine grandchildren.
The funeral was Wednesday at St John's Episcopal Church, Washington. Burial
followed in Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury.
Contributions: Roxbury Scholarship Fund, c/o Roxbury Town Hall, Roxbury 06783.
The Newtown Bee May 15, 1998