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Marion F. Erb, 73
" Barnstable -Marion F.(Phinney)
Erb, 73, died aug. 13, 2006 after a
brief illness.
She was the wife of the late Ver-
non D. Erb.
Mrs.Erb wasborn,raisedand edu-
cated in Barnstable, and her family
was one ofthe first families to settle
onCape Cod.Sheworkedfor42years
as a postal clerk in Barnstable Vil-
lage and Hyannis. Her hobbies were
gardening and caregivingto others,
including her pets. Her greatest
interest was her family.
Survivors include her mother,
Dora F. (White) Phinney Nelson of
Barnstable; her children, Deborah
F.Erb Gorgonne of Barnstable and
DarrylM. Erb of Abbot, Maine; her
siblings,HenryA.Phinney and Hel-
en P Levesque, both of Centferville,
and Donna E. Gannon of Hyannis;
three grandchildren; and three
nephews and a niece. She was the
mother of the late David C. Erb.
A graveside service was held at
the Massachusetts National Cem-
etery, Bourne.
Memorialdonationsmaybe made
to Hospice & Palliative Care of
Cape Cod,270 CommunicationWay,
Hyannis, MA 02601; or to MSPCA
Animal Shelter, 1577 Falmouth
Road, Centerville, MA 02632.
Eileen F. George, 47
Ipswich - Eileen F. (Connolly)
George, 47, died Saturday Aug. 12,
2006, at her home.
She was the wife of Peter A.
George.
Mrs.GeorgewasbominBrockton.
Shewasformerly employed asaden-
tal assistant in Beverly.She enjoyed
spendingtimeonthefamily boat and
at Crane's Beach in Ipswich.
Besides her husband , survi-
vors include her mother, Mary E.
(O'Connell) Connolly of South Den-
nis; two daughters, Kaitlin George
and Erin George, both of Ipswich;
two sisters, Cathy Fitzgerald of
Barnstable and Ann Connolly of
West Yarmouth;two brothers, Jim
ConnollyofYarmouthportand Paul
Connolly of West Yarmouth; and
many nieces and nephews.
A memorial Mass was held at
OurLady ofHope CatholicChurch,
Linebrook Road,Ipswich,followed
by a reception in the church hall.
Burial was private.
Memorialdonationsmaybe made
toMerrimackValleyHospice,360Mer-
rimack St., Lawrence, MA 01843.
Frank Gonsalves Jr., 51
WestDennis -Frank GonsalvesJr.,
51, died Sunday,Aug. 13, 2006.
He was the husband of Karen
(Massey) Gonsalves.
Mr. Gonsalves was born in
Hyannis and graduated from
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High
School.
He was a heavy equipment op-
erator for the town of Yarmouth
Transfer Station for the past 17
years. He previously worked many
years for the William Angel Exca-
vation Co.
Among hisinterests were fishing
and watching Westerns and The
Three Stooges. He also enjoyed
spending time with family and
friends.
Besideshiswife,survivorsinclude
a son, Frank E. Gonsalves of West
Yarmouth; a brother, Bobby Gon-
salves of San Diego; three sisters,
KiyaG.GonsalvesofWestHarwich,
ValeriePerryofHarwichandBeverly
"Chich" Barros of New York; and
several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service was held at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery,Harwich
! Port.
Memorialdonationsmaybemade
to Cape & Islands United Way,749
Main St., Hyannis, MA 02601; or to
Cape Cod Times Needy Fund, 319
Main St., Hyannis, MA 02601.
Phyllis Francis Kearney,
83
West Barnstable - PhyllisFrancis
Kearney, 83, died unexpectedly
Aug. 15,2006 at Cape Cod Hospital,
I Hyannis.
She was the wife of Edward J.
Kearney, who died last year.
Mrs. Kearney and her husband
retired to Cape Cod from Fram-
ingham.
She enjoyed spending time with
her family and friends and her
border collie, Sage. She was an
avid reader.
Survivors include four children,
Sherry K. Yas of Los Angeles, Rae
BacigalupoofWestBarnstable,Ayn
. K. Leblanc of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
and Edward Kearney of Plymouth;
! and 10 grandchildren.
She was alsothe mother of Lynn,
who died in 1985.
AmemorialMasswasheld at Our
Lady of Hope Chapel, Route 6A,
West Barnstable.
Memorial donations may be
made to Hospice & Palliative Care
of Cape Cod, 270 Communication
. Way, Hyannis, MA 02601.
Henry W. Klimm Jr., 90
Falmouth -HenryW.KlimmJr.,90,
died Aug. 10, 2006 at his home.
He was the husband of the late
Edna L. (Lannquist) Klimm. They
were married for 65 years.
Mr. Klimm was born on a house-
boat in Hyannis Harbor. He was
raised in Hyannis and graduated
from Barnstable High School. He
lived in Falmouth for more than
60 years. A lifetime commercial
fisherman,hebeganfishingwithhis
father in high school. He owned 12
fishing boats duringhis career and
had several custom-made. He also
fished with his son and grandsons
on various boats.
Mr. Klimm collected more than
800,000 squid for the Marine Bio-
logical Laboratory for scientific
research.He alsoworked for Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution,
which chartered a series of his
custom-built boats,Captain BillII,
III and IV Hewasalsoinstrumental
in developing a long-line fishing ,
program in the U.S.
In 2001 the MBL named its dock
off Waterfront Park the Henry W.
Klimm Jr. Pier.
He retired in 2004.
Mr.Klimm was a longtime mem-
ber of the Masons and Odd Fel-
lows.
Survivors include a son, H. Wil-
liam Klimm III of Falmouth; a
granddaughter;two grandsons;and
two great-grandchildren.
Services were private.
Memorialdonationsmay bemade
to the charity of one's choice.
The Rev. Dimitry
Konstantinow, 98
West Hyannisport - The Rev.
Dimitry Konstantinow, 98, died
Monday, Aug. 14, 2006.
He was an author of a church
history and was a priest for more
than 60 years.
A funeral washeld at the Russian
Orthodox Church ofthe Epiphany,
South Street, Roslindale. Buri-
al was in Beechwood Cemetery,
Centerville.
Nancy Leach
Bourne - Nancy (Arey) Cahoon
Leach died Thursday,Aug. 17, 2006
after a long illness.
She was the wife of the late Roy
Cahoon of Sandwich.
Mrs. Leach was born and raised
on Cape Cod.
Survivors include three broth-
ers, Paul Arey of Buzzards Bay,
Peter Arey of Brockton andRussell
Arey Jr., of the Boston area; seven
children, Mary Soares Hudkins
of Attleboro, Roy Cahoon of Vt.,
Wayne Cahoon, Thomas Cahoon
and Tammy DaSilva, all of Va.,
Kevin Cahoon of Gardner and
Todd Cahoon of Hyannis; and 20
grandchildren.
Funeralservices were private.
Memorial donations may be
i made to Beacon Hospice, 259 Wil-
low Street, Unit 2, Yarmouthport,
MA 02675.
Kenneth L. Stuart Sr., 89
Hyannis - Kenneth L. Stuart Sr,
89, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006 at
the Essex Pavilion.
He was the husband of Vivian F.
(Cabral) Stuart.
Mr.StuartwasborninMontrealand
raised and educated in Springfield.
In1941,hegraduatedfrom American
International Collegein Springfield.
Heservedasachiefpharmacistmate
inthe Navy during WorldWarII and
alsoserved in Korea.
After the war, he began a 34-
year career with New England
Telephone.
In 1971, after livingin Sutton for
10 years, he moved to Centerville,
where he served on the school
committee and started the first
Lions Club.
During his time on the Cape,
he volunteered at Cape Cod Hos-
pital and the Barnstable Council
on Aging, from 1991 to 2003. He
also worked for many years at the
Barnstable County Fair.
He was a member of the Lions
Club for more than 25 years and
received the MeMn Jones Award.
Hewasthe founder ofthe Osterville/
Centerville Lioness Club and was a
member of the Hyannis Post VFW.
He enjoyed traveling the world
with his wife, golfing, volunteering
and especially enjoyed his family.
Besideshiswife,survivorsinclude
ason,Kenneth L.Stuart Jr.,of Sut-
ton;sixdaughters,ElizabethL.Tra-
cyofWakefield,R.I.,MaryD.Stuart
ofWestYarmouth,FrancesBoutilier
Riversof Sutton,TheresaM.Chudy
of Richards, Texas, Margaret E.
Davis of Tooele, Utah and Edith W.
Reynolds ofFoxboro;20 grandchil-
dren; 17 great-grandchildren; and
a great-great-grandchild.
Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. today at
Doane,Beal&AmesFuneralHome,
160 W.Main St., Hyannis.
A funeral Mass was held at Our
Lady of Victory Church, 230 South
Main St., Centerville. Burial was in
St. Francis Cemetery, Centerville.
Memorialdonationsmaybemade
to Alzheimer Services of Cape
Cod & the Islands, 712 Main St.,
Hyannis, MA 02601.
Paul Teixeira, 60
Cotuit - Paul Teixeira, 60, died
Tuesday,Aug.15,2006 at Harborside
Healthcare, Mashpee.
He was born in East Falmouth,
wherehelivedfor manyyearsbefore
recently moving to Cotuit.
Survivorsincludetwosisters,Hel-
ena M. Correllus of East Falmouth
and Rita Gaudet of Sacramento,
Calif.; and four brothers, David J.
Teixeira Jr. of Buckeye, Ariz., Jo-
seph S. Teixeira of Bloomingdale,
111., Maurice Teixeira of Marlboro
and George Teixeira-Theissing of
Sumner, Wash. '
BurialwasinSt.Anthony'sCem-
etery in Falmouth.
Memorial donations may be
made to May Institute,MayCenter
for Adult Services, 550 Main St.,
Mashpee, MA 02649.
Pearl E. Walker, 83
Plymouth -PearlEmily (LeBlanc)
Walker, 83, died Saturday, Aug.
12, 2006 at Brigham and Women's
Hospital in Boston.
She was the wife ofthe late Car-
men A. Walker.
Mrs.WalkerwasborninDorches-
ter and attended schoolsthere.She
graduated from RoxburyMemorial
High School. During World War
II she worked for Liberty Mutual
Insurance Group.
She was an active member of St.
Margaret's Catholic Church. She
especially enjoyed reading,garden-
ing and being with her family and
friends.
Survivors include a son, Robert
W.Walkerof Salem;two daughters,
Denise M. Walker of Plymouth and
Karen A. Tiernan of Centerville; a
grandson; and several nieces and
nephews. ;
A Mass of Christian burial waS
held at St. Margaret's CatholifJ
Church,BuzzardsBay.Burialwasin
MassachusettsNational Cemetery}
Bourne.
Memorialdonationsmaybemade
to the Dana Farber Cancer Insti*
tute, c/o Dr. Pasi Janne, 11th floor}
44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115. •
Hilma E. Williams, 99 '
Avid organ player; loved garden*
ing, birdwatching ¦
Osterville - HilmaE. (Chapmanf
Williams, 99, died Saturday at Har-
borside Healthcare in Mashpee.
Shewasthe wife ofthe late Stan-
ley Williams.
Mrf. Williams had lived in
Osterville since 1957. She loved
gardening and birdwatching, and
was an avid organ player. She alsij
enjoyed traveling and cooking,
and prepared mealsfor families on
Cape Cod.
Sheespeciallyenjoyed her grand:
children and her dog.
Survivors include many grand,
-
children. I
Burial was private. '
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to deliberately escalate
the rhetoric to the point
of insult. The likelihood
that the proposed legisla-
tion would have succeeded
in my opinion is minimal
if not nil which makes the
potential damage done in
retaliation that much more
unfortunate.
Yarmouth does have
some legitimate issues aris-
ing from its proximity to
the Airport. They deserve
a place at the table, not a
chair in the audience. I will
vote accordingly.
Affordable Housing Over-
tax The so called AHOD
is returning to the Council
with two significant changes
which were inserted after
attempting to address
issues raised by the Coun-
cilors who were unable to
support it last go around.
Specific reference to con-
sideration of the Village
Plans was included in the
revision. Although some
advocates worry that this
will make it more difficult to
create this type of housing
in some villages, I think it
is a good inclusion. One
advantage to the AHOD
over the 40B route is that
the AHOD process would be
more inclusive ofthe public
and encourages village ac-
ceptance , participation and
control. If we are serious
about creating housing for
our children, the AHOD will
facilitate a genuine effort to
work creatively with poten-
tial developers to produce
affordable housing compat-
ible to our village character.
The other new revision is
the inclusion of an expira-
tion or sunset clause. This
provides for a mandatory
review ofthe process. If it
works, it can be extended.
If it doesn't, it can be
tweaked or scrapped alto-
gether.
As I write this, I have
ju st learned about an
individual's effort to put
her cottage into the Acces-
sory Housing program that
apparently is being met
with protests from neigh-
bors not wanting afford-
able housing of any type
in their neighborhood. In
my opinion, units spread
around town beats multi-
story,multi-unit complexes
sited in industrial parks.
What kind of housing do
you want for your neighbor-
hood? Or willwe continue
to talk the talk but not
walk the walk?
Barnstable Harbor Park-
ing:I promised that I would
distribute a questionnaire
before summer's end to as
many users of the current
Harbor parking plan as I
can. I do want feedback. So
far the response has been
overwhelmingly positive.
There is room for improve-
ment. For example, we may
consider expanding the
unrestricted parking next
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obvious from other accidents
there and close calls that
something was needed. So it
became the first intersection
in town to get a 4-way stop
sign."Now there are many of
them to diminish the harm's
way potential of certain inter-
sections.
Mullen's ascent to head
the DPW was a roundabout
process of its own. He ac-
knowledges that he wasn't
specifically trained for that
job or the one he had before
that as superintendent of
the Barnstable (village)
Water Co.
Born in Hopkinton, he
moved with his family to
New Jersey. He was raised
in the household construc-
tion business and schooled
in aviation technology.After
marriage he worked in sales
in the New York-NewJersey
area when he and his wife de-
cided on a different lifestyle
for their growingfamily,
"It was going to be either
Cape Cod or Maine,"he
said, when an offer came
in with a private company
doing site inspections in the
Maine area. But before the
job began, he was asked if
he'd care to replace some-
body who was leaving the
Cape.
"That was great news for
us," he said, even though
he'd be working for only 25
percent of what he'd been
earning in New Jersey."The
Cape was a great place to
raise a family." The Mullens
have two sons, Tom, who
works at the US Patent
Office in Alexandria, Va.,
and James, an adjuster
with Geico in western New
Jersey.
Then came the fateful
ad in the newspaper for a .
Barnstable Water Co. super-
intendent. "Evelyn called
my attention to it, but I
said, 'What do I know about
water?'" He went for an in-
terview anyway and candidly
told the commissioners he
didn't know much about the
job. "They said I'd learn and
they hired me."
Some 15years later, while
he served on the volunteer
municipalpublic works
commission, he was asked
out of the clear blue if he'd
be interested in being DPW
superintendent.
"Bob O'Brien (also of
Barnstable village) was
superintendent then and
he was a numbers man and
didn't want to be up front
where the superintendent
is." (O'Brien agrees, saying
that in the face of emerg-
ing major town-and Cape-
wide water initiatives, he
thought Mullen would be a
good choice because he had
that long service as a water
superintendent.) O'Brien re-
mained as assistant crunch-
ing the numbers.
As DPW chief, Mullen
supervised the final phase of
construction of the waste-
water treatment plant in
Hyannis and later updates
to the facility.He was on the
ground floor of future and
still-ongoing water propos-
als and studies.
He also had to negotiate
the political minefield of var-
ious town mangers swinging
between administrative and
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political models of admin-
istration and the varied
personalities on the council,
experiences a prudent man
such as himself keeps close
to the vest.
What wasn't realized at
the time of Mullen's esca- *
pades searching for water ml
Barnstable's boondocks was^
that it also prepared him I
asa trailblazer, experience "
he is putting to good public 1
use as president of the land "
trust and informal trail- .
blazer, an avocation he takes
seriously.
Retirement is not all work
and no play.He golfs twice
weekly and travels, enjoying
the marvels of old world ar-
chitecture and roadways and
visiting friends and relatives
on auto trips. He dabbles in
the nostalgia of genealogy
and also reads, a passion
apparently revived in many
older Americansbored by
most of television's deja vu
entertainment fare.
At 65, Mullen is fit to the
task of keeping Barnstable's
pathways passable even
though, he says, most people
spurn wooded hikes in the
summertime to avoid mos-
quitoes and ticks.
"I've been bitten twice
by ticks and took the test
for Lyme disease afterward
without problems. I try to
protect myself by wearing
long slacks and spraying
my ankleswhen I'm out on
the trail in the summer, "he
notes by way of advice. For
that reason, he says, the
trails get most use in the
spring and fall.
Despite the threat, Mul-
len, like a Timex, plans
to keep on ticking for the
Barnstable Land Trust and
the Cape's nature lovers.
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