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.

Jane Ann MacAskill Grinwis, 89, of Peterborough, diedMay 7, 2025. She joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1962 and served as a secretary in Washington, D.C., Algeria, and Senegal, before training to become an intelligence officer. She and her husband served at embassies together in Algiers, Israel, and Belgium. After 911, she worked for the Counterterrorist Center tracking al-Qaida in Europe and Iraq, retiring in 2012 after serving the U.S. for  38 years. (Jellison Funeral Home and Cremation Services)

Sarah Anne Kinter, 83, of Canterbury, died May 8, 2025. She had a long career as a librarian beginning in Ohio. Moving to New Hampshire, she volunteered as a tour guide at the Canterbury Shaker Village Museum and was appointed as the first archivist. She volunteered at the Merrimack County Nursing Home and worked there as a social worker. She had a counseling practice for more than 30 years, in Laconia and Canterbury. She sang in choirs including the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and the Manchester Choral Society, and most lately the Canterbury Shaker Singers. (Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services)

Mark P. Letendre, 80, of Manchester, died May 13, 2025. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He and his father purchased the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester in 1969 and served homecooked favorites His father retired in 1978, and Mark operated it until selling in 1985. Mark then worked as a facilities manager for Manchester’s Department of Public Works until 2008. (Legacy.com)

David Bennett Payne, 88, of Elkins and Lebanon, died May 6, 2025. He worked for 30 years at the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company, becoming president, and then chief financial officer of Bank of New England. He retired as chair of Trust Company of Connecticut, which he founded in 1991. He was a director of several organizations in Connecticut, including Hartford Hospital, Hartford Healthcare, the Hartford Graduate Center, the Institute of Living, McLean Home, and Westminster School. In New London, where he lived for 25 years, he was a member of the New London Citizens’ Advisory Committee and a trustee of the Kearsarge Area Council on Aging, Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust, and Colby-Sawyer College for 15 years. (Chadwick Funeral and Cremation Service)

Kenneth Barclay Ruhm, 90, of Holderness and Concord, died May 12, 2025.  He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and served multiple tours as an instructor pilot. He flew nearly 300 combat missions in Vietnam. He began a civilian aviation career with Pan American Airways, then worked for the Holderness School and several regional airlines, including Winnipesaukee and Precision Airlines. He was recalled by Pan Am in 1985 and later joined Delta Air Lines, retiring in 1996. He and his wife Nancy were active in the Waterville Valley “Silver Streaks” ski program, and Ken continued racing into his 70s. He volunteered with the Squam Lakes Association as a water quality sampler and helped harvest and split firewood to heat the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center. (Legacy.com)

David Hackett Souter, 85, of Hopkinton, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Retired), died May 8, 2025. He began his legal career at Orr & Reno in 1966, then joined the Office of the New Hampshire Attorney General and served as Deputy Attorney General under then Attorney General Warren B. Rudman and as Attorney General from 1976 to 1978. He was appointed to the Superior Court in 1978, and the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1983, where he served until being nominated by President George H.W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in May 1990. Just a few months later, President Bush nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as an Associate Justice from October 1990 to his retirement, at age 69, in 2009. He continued to sit on the First Circuit Court in Boston for another 11 years. He was chair of the board of trustees of Concord Hospital and a long-time member of the board of the New Hampshire Historical Society. At his request, there will be no public memorial service. (Bennett Funeral Home)

Nathan Paul Waterhouse, 50, of North Conway, diedMay 2, 2025. He taught skiing at Gunstock Mountain Resort in Gilford, which led to more than 30 years in the ski industry. He was a member of the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and earned his Level 1 Certification, rising through the ranks to earn the Alpine Level 3 Certification—the highest certification distinction within the organization. He was named to Ski Magazine Top 100 Ski Instructors in the country in 2001, and in 2003, he joined the PSIA-Eastern Educational Staff as a development team member, until 2007 and then returning in 2024. He was a ski instructor and children’s center trainer at Attitash Mountain Resort and was promoted to director of the ski and snowboard school. He oversaw both the Attitash and Wildcat Mountain ski and snowboard schools. (Furber & White Funeral Home)

WORDS OF WISDOM: “Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.” – Robb Sagendorph, Nov. 20, 1900, to July 4, 1970, publisher of Yankee Magazine