Cape Cod Chronicle

John Colby Carpenter Jr. of Apalachicola, FL (formerly of the Lower Cape) passed away on March 24, 2026, in Carrabelle, FL after a long battle with cancer. He was 74 years old. Born in Boston in 1951, John was the son of John Colby and Jane Joyner Carpenter. He and his sister, Shelley, grew up in Wellesley and spent summers beside the ocean in Hardings Beach Hills, West Chatham, where John developed a lifelong love of the water.

Joann Marie Garceau passed away peacefully on May 23rd, 2026. She was 92.

Alice Holland Webster of South Chatham, Mass., and formerly of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, died March 3 at home, surrounded by family and under hospice care. She was 93. Alice was born in 1932 to Gertrude Bancroft Holland of St. Paul, Minn., and H. Brian Holland of Brentford, England, and grew up in Washington, D.C., and Wellesley, Mass., where she attended the Dana Hall School as a day student. She earned a zoology degree from Smith College in 1954 and met her late husband, Dr. Leslie T.

Kathleen “Kathy” Davison Riddell, age 85, died peacefully at her home in Chatham, Massachusetts, after a long illness. Born to Elizabeth and Edward Davison, Kathy was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, graduating in 1961 after completing her coursework early so that she could marry her college classmate and the love of her life, Robert “Bob” Riddell.

CHATHAM – Hop on a trolley Saturday, June 20 for a free tour of five historic sites and museums as part of History Month, sponsored by Historic Chatham. Free trolley rides, complete with a tour guide, will continue on Mondays and Tuesdays during the next several weeks, courtesy of Chatham Valet, the firm that operates the Eldredge Garage parking lot. “It’s a ride through Chatham,” Bill Bystrom, a member of Historic Chatham, told the select board last week in announcing the trolley rides.

Nicholas Dadoly, 91, of Harwich, MA, died June 3, 2026. Born in Dracut, MA, on May 15, 1935, he was the son of the late Konstantine and Efthymia (Phousias) Dadolys. A graduate chemical engineer (Lowell Technological Institute / UMass Lowell), he spent twenty years in management with Allied Chemical Corporation and in 1977 founded Aegis Incorporated.

Born in Bayside, Long Island, N.Y. Nancy Doble Berbrick was the daughter of Ralph Nelson Doble and Blanche Becker Doble. After seven years her family moved to Hingham, MA where she experienced a delightful childhood with her siblings and school friends. While in Hingham she attended Derby Academy for two years and then transferred to Hingham High School from which she graduated. Glee Club, Field Hockey, Girl Scouts and Dramatics filled her days.

Residents of the Chatham Housing Authority’s congregate housing and members of the Chatham-Harwich Newcomers Club woodworking group pose with new raised garden beds. TIM WOOD PHOTO CHATHAM – Every morning, Amy Crowell visits the new raised garden beds behind the housing authority’s congregate units where she lives to tend the growing plants. “It makes my heart happy,” she said. Indeed, the three new raised beds behind the congregate units off Crowell Road are making a lot of people happy.

The Orleans historical commission last week voted to place a one-year delay on the demolition of the buildings at 16 South Orleans Rd., which formerly housed the Cuffy’s retail store. RYAN BRAY PHOTO ORLEANS – A historic building that once housed the Cuffy’s retail shop on South Orleans Road has been saved from demolition, at least for now.

Orleans resident Christina Lee, fourth from left, stands with students at Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia earlier this year. PHOTOS COURTESY CHRISTINA LEE Joshua Olinga, a Ugandan physical therapist, Lee, and Tracy Spitznagle, a professor of physical therapy at Washington University in St. Louis, stand by a statue of Australian surgeon Catherine Hamlin and her husband Reginald Hamlin, founders of the hospital. Lee stands at the hospital gates.