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In Memoriam

Ralph W. Spofford

Ralph Spofford of Job Seaman's Acres in New London, NH died on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at the age of 79.  In December of 2001, Ralph and his wife, Mary Lou, "Mickey," granted Ausbon Sargent a conservation easement on their 21-acre property located on the northwest end of Pleasant Lake accessed from Lakeshore Road.

Professor Myron Rosenblum

Professor Myron Rosenblum, beloved husband of Rachel and devoted father of Miriam, Jonathan and Leah, passed away at his home in Lexington, MA on January 29, 2016. Myron, with his wife, Rachel, was a landowner of an Ausbon Sargent protected property in Danbury. Myron was born in New York in 1925.

Donald J. Gross

Donald J. Gross, of Kearsarge Mountain Road and a landowner of a large Ausbon Sargent protected property just off of Rt. 11 in Andover, died on January 7, 2016 at the age of 65.  Don graduated from New London High School, the Claremont VoTech and later, went to FBI training in Quantico, VA.  He was a 32-year veteran of the Nashua Police Department, retiring in 2004 as Chief.

Robert Dale Stevens

Robert D. Stevens, PhD, died on July 10, 2014 at the age of 86.  Influenced by work that his mother had done, Bob was committed to land preservation.  Bob’s grandfather, William R. Cordingley, and his family developed a love affair with the area of SooNipi Park Lodge.

Roger Hersey

Roger Hersey

Roger Hersey, an Ausbon Sargent easement donor, died May 12, 2013 at age 64. The Hersey Farm in East Andover, NH, which had been purchased by his grandparents in 1904, was one of Roger’s special places.

Nancy Lyon

Nancy Lyon

Nancy Chase Lyon (1947 – 2011) passed away on October 25th, 2011, after a brief, but aggressive illness. So many people, representing so many genres throughout the state of NH and beyond, feel a great loss at Nancy’s passing. In 1996 Nancy joined the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, offering her voluntary services as a graphic designer.

Donald M. Sisson

Donald M. Sisson

Donald M. Sisson died Monday, May 3, 2010 at the age of 85. Ausbon Sargent’s Executive Director, Debbie Stanley, wrote the following remembrance, “Don Sisson was one of the original five founders of Ausbon Sargent who signed and filed the Articles of Agreement on September 25, 1987.  He was our first treasurer and served for seven years.

Sydney L. Crook

Sydney L. Crook

Sydney Lomax Crook, who gifted Clark Lookout to the Town of New London, died at the age of 91 on April 25, 2010. He was born in the Crook family home on Lake Sunapee, New London contributing to his love of both the lake and the New London area. Syd was active in a number of organizations in New London and Sunapee.

Lincoln Gordon

Lincoln Gordon

Lincoln Gordon, Ausbon Sargent land donor died on December 19, 2009 at age 96. Dr. Gordon donated a conservation easement of 35.7 acres in February, 1995.

Thaddeus Johnson

Thaddeus Johnson

Thad Johnson and his wife, Virginia, donated a 92-acre conservation easement on their property in Sutton Mills to Ausbon Sargent in August, 2008. Thad died just over a year later, on November 25, 2009.