InDepthNH.org scans the websites of New Hampshire funeral homes each week and selects at random some of our friends, relatives and neighbors to feature in this column. The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community. InDepthNH.org is now offering obituaries through the Legacy.com service. We view this as part of our public service mission. Click here or on the Obituaries tab at the top of our home page to learn more. And if you know of someone from New Hampshire who should be featured in this column, please send your suggestions to NancyWestNews@gmail.com.
Terri Taylor August, 94, of Keene, died March 8, 2025. For nearly 50 years, she and her family nurtured a small farm and colonial homestead on Tibbetts Hill Road in Goffstown known as Timberstone Acres. She was a 4-H leader of the Goffstown Gallopers and a long-time member of the Goffstown Garden Club, serving as president and vice president for many years. She was a master gardener and was a judge at many state and regional flower shows. She served on the Goffstown Historic District Commission, serving as vice chairman in 1995. She led projects including the preservation of the Grasmere Schoolhouse No. 9, designation of town hall to the National Register of Historic Places, creation of a historic walking tour of Main Street, and the installation of informational markers at significant landmarks in town. (French and Rising Funeral Home)
Pierrette Clermont, 75, of Lincoln, died March 10, 2025. She was an integral part of the Clermont family business, including the Beacon Resort in Lincoln. She ran the Beacon North front desk and was a tour guide. She and her husband purchased the Chalet Restaurant in 1986. (Legacy.com)
James H. Green, 81, of Londonderry, died March 7, 2025. A U.S. Army veteran, he also served 18 years with the Army Reserves. He was employed by the Coast Guard at the Research and Development Center as resource director for many years. He was past president of the Democratic Party in Londonderry, president of the Senior Resource Committee, Trustee of the Trust Fund and past president and secretary of the Sugarplum Community. (Peabody Funeral Homes and Crematorium)
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Russell L. Marcum, 78, of Hollis, died March 12, 2025. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was a Nashua building inspector for 27 years. (Farwell Funeral Home)
William Phillips, 77, of Milford, died March 9, 2025. The owner and sole operator of the trucking company Diamond Transportation, he excelled in football and baseball at Exeter High and helped lead the football team to two state championship titles. He also was a track team member who won the N.H. Decathlon in 1965 and still holds the school’s javelin record. He was inducted into the NHIAA Hall of Fame in 2020. He was a member of the UNH football team that won their first Yankee Conference Championship in 1968. He was a UNH track team member and in 1969 received the Paul Sweet Trophy for Outstanding Member of UNH Track & Field Team. He was inducted into the UNH Hall of Fame in 1987. He then coached the UNH Track & Field team from 1970-1973. He competed in the Masters division on the NORBA and EFTA racing circuits. (Smith & Heald Funeral Home)
Terje Reinertsen, 87, of Contoocook, died March 3, 2025. A native of Norway, he moved to Dunbarton in 1968 and worked at the N.H. State Hospital as a clinical child psychologist. He was a therapist at Central N.H. Community Mental Health (now Riverbend) and served as its director for 25 years. He collaborated with Concord Hospital to establish emergency services and began residential therapy homes. (Legacy.com)
Arthur George Stavros, 99, of Canterbury, died March 7, 2025, a day after celebrating his birthday. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and started as a claims adjuster for an insurance company, becoming a copywriter for an advertising agency. In 1955 he took sole ownership of Orr, Pope, and Moulton, which he ran for 52 years. He was director and vice president of the chamber of commerce, president of the YMCA from 1976-78, president of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church twice, as well as vice president and secretary. (Bennett Funeral Home)
WORDS OF WISDOM: “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them … to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.” – Albert Horton Foote Jr., American screenwriter whose adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” won an Academy Award. He won another for “Tender Mercies.” Foote lived in New Boston for a time. (His birthday today, March 14, 1916, to March 4, 2009)
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WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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