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.

Lauren Maria Basco Souza, 16, of Bedford, died April 20, 2025. She was a junior at Trinity High School, Manchester, who was killed in a car crash in Bedford. She had earned multiple academic awards, including the Ed Houle Memorial Academic Athlete Award, the St. Joseph Regional Junior High Outstanding Student Award, and the Bishop Libasci Outstanding Student Scholarship in 2022. She was ranked first in her class at Trinity High School for three consecutive years and was recently elected vice president of the National Honor Society. She was a student ambassador at Trinity and an orientation leader in her junior year. (Lambert Funeral Home & Crematory)

Alice Dianne Beyrent, 77, of Gilford, died April 21, 2025. She was an adjunct professor of early childhood education and development and edited and co-authored textbooks on the subject. She played clarinet in the Gilford Community Band and in productions at Gilford High School. She taught private clarinet lessons. (Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services)

John J. Faulkner, 60, of Milford, died April 20, 2025. He worked for the state Department of Transportation for more than 23 years, most recently as foreman for District 5, State 510 Shed in Milford. (Smith & Heald Funeral Home)

William Michael Jones, 70, of Dover, died April 20, 2025. He was an officer and pilot in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a major. He was a pilot for People’s Express and Delta Airlines, where he was the ALPA safety chairman. He was an accident investigator on several major aviation accidents. After retiring from Delta as an international captain in 2005, he was chief financial officer of SA Technologies. He led a crisis response team for the American Red Cross in 2005 after fires, floods and tornados across Cobb County in Georgia. (J. Verne Wood Funeral Home – Buckminster Chapel)

Jack Octave Lavoie, 82, of Epping, died April 18, 2025. He worked in the leather industry, rising from salesman to vice president of sales, CEO and owner. He served on several Epping boards and committees, including the planning, zoning and water & sewer boards, school board, where he served as chairman. He was head coach for the Epping High School basketball team and Sanborn Youth Hockey League. (Brewitt Funeral Home)

Melvin Ross Low, 93, of Rye, died March 3, 20245. He was a Korean War veteran with a Purple Heart and served as a Rye selectman, nine-term planning board member, and overall community advocate. He operated a vegetable stand for decades. He was involved with the conservation of Parson Park in Rye and was president of Parsons Park Corporation, a coalition of 149 investors who purchased the land and retained it until the town could take ownership as permanently conserved recreation lands. (Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory)

Gary A. Manso, 81, of Sanbornton, died April 17, 2025. A U.S. Army veteran, he was a helicopter pilot flying Hueys and Cobra Gunships in Vietnam. He was an attorney who had a successful legal career that spanned four decades in New York. At least three of his cases at the New York state appellate court level are binding precedent where past judicial decisions act as guiding authority for future cases. (Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home)

John Harold Meserve, 77, former mayor of Somersworth, died, April 16, 2025. He was an accident reconstructionist who investigated the cause of motor crashes, for the state and then as a private businessman. He started his career as a journalist for Foster’s Daily Democrat in Dover. He served on the Somersworth City Council before serving as mayor and as a member of the N.H. House of Representatives. He was a member of Dover Elks Lodge 184 and past secretary and ER at Kona Elks Lodge 2616. (Tasker Funeral Home)

Joyce Lillian (Cleary) Miner, 85, of Bennington, died April 19, 2025. She worked at Monadnock Paper Mills for 48 years, starting as a secretary and retiring as controller in the accounting department. She was Bennington town treasurer for 39 years and then deputy town treasurer for more than 11 years. (Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home)

Sandy C. Monroe, 90, of Littleton, died April 17, 2025. She was a nurse in Allentown, Pa., and moved to Littleton with her husband, Dr. Richard Monroe, in 1969.  M.D. She was an operating room nurse for Littleton Regional Healthcare and volunteered with the LRH Auxiliary for many years. She volunteered for hospital events including the fashion show and Dance on Top of Cannon, and she also hosted the auxiliary membership luncheon at her home for Christmas.  She scheduled Christmas caroling each year at local nursing homes. (Ross Funeral Home)

Paul C. Moore, 89 of Dalton, died April 21, 2025. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran and worked for Northeast Airlines. He owned and operated Moore’s General Store with his brother. (Bailey Funeral Home)

Eric Michael Page, 39, of Bartlett, died April 20, 2025, in a skiing accident at Black Mountain. He created a vacation rental business and was a licensed real estate agent. He was a skilled craftsman and painter and spent many years racing for the Attitash ski team. He later became a freestyle coach at Attitash. (Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory)

Jeremy Jason Sawyer, 91, of Hampton Falls, died April 18, 2025. A U.S. Army veteran, he taught high school history in Lebanon and then at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton. He became a guidance counselor and served on boards at the high school and for the state. He was named outstanding counselor of the year in New Hampshire. He was active in masonry and was a Master Mason in Saint James Lodge No. 102 F. &A.M. of Hampton in 1973 and served as Worshipful Master in 1978. He was a member of Horace Chase Lodge No. 72, and New Hampshire Society of Veterans Freemasonry, among other masonic offices and honors. He was installed as the 107th Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New Hampshire in May of 2000. (Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory)

Susemarie Schwarzman Swenson, 83, of Whitefield, died April 16, 2025. She operated a private practice in myofunctional therapy and became a distributor of materials sought by speech therapists. She was active at the Whitefield theater, the regional board for the developmentally disabled, and helped with activities at the local baptist church. (Bailey Funeral Home)

WORDS OF WISDOM: “We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time, important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other.” – Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, Dec. 17, 1936, to April 21, 2025 (who delivered these remarks while praying for an end to the coronavirus pandemic in St. Peter’s Square, March 27, 2020)