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In Memoriam

Amy Hughes Blitzer

On October 29, 2016, Ausbon Sargent lost a special friend, member, and easement donor. Sadly, Amy Hughes Blitzer passed away at the age of 90 while on vacation with her family. Amy, an accomplished sculptor, working with wood, bronze and clay, taught art at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA. She married her husband Dr.Read more

Richard "Dick" Webb

The Webb family lost their beloved patriarch, Richard “Dick” Webb, on July 6, 2016 just shy of his 95th birthday and the Mt. Kearsarge/Lake Sunapee area lost one of the most dedicated and influential conservationists and tree farmers of our time.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more