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New Hampshire
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Seventh-Generation Apple Grower; Former Somersworth City Councilor
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.
Brenda Rose (Hartley) Baer, 98, of Laconia, died Nov. 4, 2024. She and her husband Bob worked in the 1950s to build the Belknap Recreation Area and the Gypsy Tour (now Motorcycle Week) in Laconia. She was a former Laconia city councilor for 12 years, retiring at age 91. Frequent letters to the editor to the local newspaper resulted in a newspaper column with Dorothy Duffy called “Sensible Seniors,” which was published in the Daily Sun and the Citizen for two years. (Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services)
David A. Forest, 82, of Contoocook, died Nov. 4, 2024. He was associate professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and served in the engineering technology program at the Manchester campus and at the Durham campus for a total of 35 years. He worked for Sanders/BAE. (Waters Funeral Home)
Nancy Preston Johnson, 92, of Hanover, died Nov. 2, 2024. She was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta board of directors for the Dartmouth College chapter and was involved with YMCA Camp Coniston in Croydon for 60 years. She and her daughter Catherine founded Wheelock Travel, Inc. She was the wife of N.H. Supreme Court Justice William R. Johnson, who died in 2009. In 1971, they founded the Friends of Dartmouth Basketball, the first of the now 34 Friends groups of Dartmouth Athletics. (Rand-Wilson Funeral Home)
Lawrence Logemann, 79, of Twin Mountain, died Nov. 1, 2024. He worked at various radio stations throughout the country and was employed at CBN Network for 15 years. He owned and operated Twin Mountain Country Store in Twin Mountain for 11 years. He then opened an online woodworking business and worked for Camp Kabeyun in Alton for 17 years teaching woodworking. (Baker-Gagne Funeral Homes)
Timothy Taber Louis, 82, of Portsmouth, and formerly of Raymond, died Oct. 29, 2024. A U.S. Air Force veteran, he worked at the Ashworth-by-the-Sea Hotel in Hampton Beach for 40 years as a front desk agent, supervisor, and ultimately, assistant general manager. A 40-year resident of Raymond, he was president of the historical society, served six years on the school board, was a charter member of the Raymond Area Rotary Club and served a term as president. He also served on the budget committee and the historic development commission, He was school district moderator for many years. (Brewitt Funeral Home)
Andrew “Andy” C. Mack, 89, of Londonderry, died Nov. 2, 2024. A U.S Army veteran, he was the seventh generation of his family to work the apple orchards that are closely identified with Londonderry. He spent most of his life working on the family farm. He sold the development rights to the town in the 1990s and later sold the business to Kyle Christensen, who maintains the farming tradition today. He was a trustee of Pinkerton Academy in Derry and served as Londonderry town and school moderator. He was a vice president at Derry Bank and Trust and was a member of the Derry Rotary Club. He worked with town and local groups to provide space for future Londonderry municipal expansion, transferring land for Moose Hill School, the Londonderry Historical Society, and Orchard Christian Fellowship. (Peabody Funeral Homes)
Madeleine T. Marchewka, 99, died Nov. 1, 2024. She was a hairdresser in Lebanon and worked for the American University Field Staff in Hanover. She became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Lebanon and was Lebanon Citizen of the Year in 2008. She published her memoir, “Welfare as We Knew It,” in 2002 and another book, “Yes Sister, No Sister,” in 2006, about her years in a Canadian convent. (Ricker Funeral Home)
Phyllis A. “Pam” Muzeroll, 69, of Claremont, died Nov. 1, 2024. She worked as a journalist, writer, and photographer. She was published nationally and internationally. With her mother, she wrote “The Squirrel’s Goblet.” She founded the e-Ticker News of Claremont in 2009, the first electronic newspaper to cover the region. She closed the operation 13 years later. She was the Greater Claremont Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Year in 2014. She served on the board of trustees for the Claremont Historical Society. (Newton-Bartlett Funeral Home)
Eric F. Parthum, D.M.D., 84, of Windham, died Nov. 1, 2024. A U.S. Navy veteran, he was a dentist with a practice in Methuen, Mass. He was a member of the Berkley retirement board of directors and past president of the Lawrence High School Alumni Association. (Goundrey Dewhirst Funeral Home)
Jennifer Gemma Soldati, 77, of Somersworth, died Oct. 29, 2024. She served as a state representative from 1989 to 1994 and was House Minority Whip. She was executive director of the Somersworth Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2015 and a Somersworth City Councilor from 2012 to 2016. She was the sister of former Strafford County Attorney and Somersworth Mayor Lincoln Soldati, who died in 2022. She was an artist and professional potter who taught art at various institutions. (Direct Cremation of the Seacoast)
WORDS OF WISDOM: “The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.” – John Lewis, congressman and civil rights advocate, Feb. 21, 1940, to July 17, 2020
New Hampshire
Possible 2028 Democratic White House contenders weigh in on Iran with New Hampshire voters
As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran overtakes the foreign policy debate in Washington, two Democratic governors with potential 2028 presidential aspirations — Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear — recently traveled to New Hampshire, introducing themselves to the state’s famously engaged voters. The two weighed in on the war and both criticized and questioned President Trump’s strategy and endgame.
“If a president is going to take a country into war, and risk the lives of American troops and Americans in the region, he has to have a real justification and not one that seems to change every five to 10 hours,” Beshear told CBS News after a Democratic fundraiser in Keene.
“This President seems to use force before ever trying diplomacy, and he has a duty to sell it to the American people and to address Congress with it,” Beshear continued. “He hasn’t done any of that. In fact, it appears there isn’t even a plan for what success looks like. He’s gone from regime change to strategic objectives and now is talking about unconditional surrender, which isn’t realistic where he is.”
Beshear also said he thought that Congress should have reined in Mr. Trump’s war powers.
“He is trying to ignore Congress. He’s trying to even ignore the American people,” Beshear said.
He went on to note that the president’s State of the Union address took place “three — four days before he launched this attack,” and Mr. Trump “didn’t even have the respect to tell the American people the threat that he thought Iran posed to us.”
Last week, both the House and the Senate failed to pass resolutions to limit Mr. Trump’s war powers and stop him from taking further military action against Iran without congressional support.
For Newsom, the war with Iran constitutes part of a broader criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At an event last Tuesday in Los Angeles, Newsom had compared Israel to an “apartheid state.” Later, in New Hampshire, he sought to clarify his comment.
“I was specifically referring to a Tom Friedman [New York Times] column last week, where Tom used that word of apartheid as it relates to the direction Bibi is going, particularly on the annexation of the West Bank,” Newsom explained during a book tour event Thursday night in Portsmouth. “I’m very angry, with what he is doing and why he’s doing it, what he’s going to ultimately try to do to the Supreme Court there, what he’s trying to do to save his own political career.”
Friedman wrote that at the same time that the U.S. and Israel are prosecuting a war in Iran, within Israel, Netanyahu’s government has undertaken efforts to annex the West Bank, driving Palestinians from their homes; fire the attorney general who is leading the prosecution against Netanyahu for corruption; and block the government’s attempt to establish a commission to examine the failures that led up to the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Jews by Hamas.
CBS News has reached out to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., for comment.
On Iran, Newsom said, “I’m very angry about this war, with all due respect, you know, not because I’m angry the supreme leader is dead. Quite the contrary. I’m not naive about the last 37 years of his reign. Forty-seven years since ’79 — the revolution,” Newsom said. “But I’m also mindful that you have a president who still is inarticulate and incapable of giving us the rationale of why? Why now? What’s the endgame?”
Many attendees at Newsom’s book event said that the situation in Iran is a top-of-mind issue for them, too. Some said they’re “horrified” by what is happening.
29-year-old Alicia Marr told CBS News she decided to attend Newsom’s event because of his social media response to the war with Iran.
“There was one spot left, and I decided to pick it up, and it was due to his response to the war, that it is just unacceptable, and I would agree with that,” Marr said.
While some voters like Marr are eager to hear about where potential candidates stand on foreign policy, many at Newsom’s event said they care most about how potential candidates plan to address domestic issues.
“I’m more focused on getting the middle class back on track and fighting the oligarchy, and I’m less invested in international issues,” said Anita Alden, who also attended Newsom’s event,
“I wouldn’t call myself America first, but we have so many problems at home that are my priority,” she told CBS News.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who may also be weighing another White House bid, told Fox 2 Detroit last week that she “unequivocally opposes” the Trump administration’s military action in Iran and urged Congress to take action.
“If we want to stop Donald Trump with this random decision that he has arrived at, then Congress must act, and Congress must act immediately. The American people do not want our sons and daughters to go into this unauthorized war of choice,” Harris said.
Mr. Trump has lashed out against Democrats who have pushed back on his Iran strategy, calling them “losers” last week and arguing that they would criticize any decision he made on Iran.
“If I did it, it’s no good. If I didn’t do it, they would have said the opposite, that you should have done this,” the president said.
Local News
Police say the Attleboro man was driving 104 mph in a 55 mph zone on Route 202 near in Rindge, New Hampshire.
A Massachusetts man was arrested late Wednesday night after police say he was driving more than 100 mph on a New Hampshire roadway.
Officers with the Rindge Police Department stopped a vehicle shortly after 11 p.m. on Route 202 near Sears Drive in Rindge following a report of a car traveling at excessive speed, according to a statement from Chief Rachel Malynowski.
The vehicle, a 2020 Kia Stinger, was spotted traveling at 104 mph in a posted 55 mph zone, Malynowski said.
The driver, a 21-year-old man from Attleboro, was arrested and charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle, according to police.
He is scheduled to be arraigned April 5. If convicted, the man faces a fine of at least $750, in addition to the court’s penalty assessment, and a 90-day license suspension, Malynowski said.
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