Jennie E. Pesaresi
RYE - Jennie E. Pesaresi, 85, died Tuesday, April 3, 2007, at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass.
She was born in Cambridge, Mass., on June 12, 1921, the daughter of the late Guiseppe and Santina (Paglierani) Scarponi. Raised in Cambridge, she graduated from Cambridge High and Latin with the Class of 1939.
Mrs. Pesaresi was employed as a secretary in the radiation laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1941 to 1955, and for many years, she was co-owner of the York Harbor Motel & Cottages, with her husband and his family.
A resident of Rye since 1955, she was a communicant of Corpus Christi Parish, attending St. James Church in Portsmouth, where she was a longtime member of the Ave Maria Guild.
She shared 51 years of marriage with her husband Edmond Pesaresi.
In addition to her husband, family members include her son, Richard S. Pesaresi and his wife, Suzanne, of Portsmouth; her two daughters, Linda M. Geel and her husband, Richard, of Rye and Jean A. Pesaresi of Eliot, Maine; five grandchildren, Kati and Kirstin Pesaresi and Erin, Rachel and Abby Geel; her brother, Dante J. Scarponi of Woburn, Mass.; two sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law, Ada, Dorothy, Edward and Adam Pesaresi; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.
WE REMEMBER: She was an extremely active, energetic woman and her greatest pleasure was being in her kitchen, cooking for her family.
SERVICES: Visiting hours will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday in the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory, 811 Lafayette Road, Hampton. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in St. James Church of Corpus Christi Parish, Lafayette Road, Portsmouth. Interment will be in the Calvary Cemetery in Portsmouth. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited. The family requests that flowers please be omitted.
If desired, donations may be made to The National Shrine of St. Jude, 205 W. Monroe St., P.O. Box 4837, Chicago, IL 60680-4837. For more information, visit www.remickgendron.com.
Peter B. Arguin
NEW DURHAM - Peter B. Arguin, 50, died Wednesday, April 4, 2007, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
He was born in Berlin on March 23, 1957, and grew up in Hampton, where he attended Winnacunnet High School. He lived in New Durham with his family, where he worked as a dry kiln supervisor at Middleton Building Supply in Middleton.
Peter loved the outdoors and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Brenda (Spinney); his children, Nathan, Alison, Timothy and Erica; his parents, Ben and Peg Arguin of Hampton; two sisters, Audrey Arguin and husband, Mac McGinley, of Sanford, Maine, and Amy and her husband, Jim Pender, and their daughters, Abigail and Anna, of Hampton; and several nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
