Hilda Benson-Trop, beloved mother, sister and grandmother, died on August 17, 2012.
Ms. Trop was born to James and Madeline Comeau in Massachusetts on September 3, 1927 and was the eldest of 5 children.
Mother, missionary, woman of faith
Mary "Tinker" Edith Tatem Williams, a retired missionary of the United Church of Christ in Japan, died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at the Pilgrim Place Health Services Center in Claremont. She and her late husband served for more than 40 years as educational missionaries in Sendai, Kyoto and Nagoya.
Ms. Williams was born on August 22, 1924 in Haddonfield, New Jersey and baptized as a Presbyterian.
Virginia Lee Bissell, a 10-year resident of Claremont Manor, died peacefully on Tuesday, August 14 at the Emeritus at Victorian Court assisted living community in Ontario. She was 94.
Ms. Bissell was born in Cumberland, Maryland to Maude and Cyrus Gilbert on March 7, 1918. She spent her formative years in Darien, Connecticut where her father was a pharmacist and her mother a nurse.
