Notable NH Deaths: St. Anselm Nursing Educator From Exeter; Angels Of Addictions Founder Of Plaistow

By Staff Report, InDepth NH

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Joyce "Jo" Barker, 85, of Exeter, died March 15, 2026. She was a nurse from 1958 to retirement in 2003, when she was director of the Nursing Education Program at St. Anselm College. She was an active member of professional nursing organizations, and the New Hampshire Nurses Association presented her with the Outstanding Leadership Award in Nursing. (Direct Cremation of the Seacoast)

Carol Phillippe Kramer, 85, of Silver Lake in Madison, died March 15, 2026. She was a researcher for Time-Life Books in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. She sang in church choir groups and small choral groups in North Carolina, Rhode Island, Ohio and New Hampshire. She was the New England district president of the PEO Sisterhood, which has helped women pursue educational goals with financial assistance. She served on nonprofit boards in the Mount Washington Valley including Arts Jubilee, Starting Point, and the Madison Scholarship Fund. She was a rescue EMT and a licensed paramedic. (Furber & White Funeral Home)

Claudette S. (Boucher) Levesque, 85, of Hampstead, died March 15, 2026. She was a member of the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association. She left the religious community worked at Family Bank, Merrimack College, Arlington Trust Company, and First Essex Bank, Lawrence, MA. She accompanied the Bradford Chorale at the former Bradford College in Haverhill, Mass., and was organist at the Hampstead Congregational Church. (Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home)

Carol Lynne Manning, 69, of Nashua, died March 12, 2026. She was an intensive care nurse and earned her Ph.D., eventually teaching future nurses. She opened her own practice and was a member of the American Nurses Association. (Davis Funeral Home)

Lance C. Nelson, 83, of Alstead, died March 12, 2026. A U.S. Navy veteran, he also served in the Naval Reserves. He and his wife served in various capacities for Charlestown Foursquare Church and began church services at their Hancock campsite in 2006. In 2009, he received his pastoral license with the Foursquare Church and was ordained in 2018. He was camp pastor for 10 years and in 2016 became assistant pastor at Life On Main. (Legacy.com)

Dr. Angelo Gregory Rocco, M.D., 100, formerly of Exeter, died March 16, 2026. He was a U.S. Army veteran and served as a captain in a MASH unit during the Korean War. He began his medical career as a National Institutes of Health Fellow at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was chief of anesthesiology and president of the staff at Exeter Hospital, and director of the Pain Treatment Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was chief of anesthesia at the West Roxbury VA Hospital and an anesthesiologist at Harvard-Vanguard Medical Center. He was a visiting scientist at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He authored more than 50 articles in professional journals over the course of his career. He was volunteer director of the American Lung Association in Concord and as a long-time volunteer at Exceptional Citizens Week at Camp Fatima in Gilmanton Iron Works. (Brewitt Funeral Home)

June (Heftye, Steele) Waltz, 94, of North Conway, died March 16, 2026. She worked as a program analyst in computer sciences and with her husband Butch owned and operated the Glen Video Store. She worked at several real estate companies in the Mount Washington Valley and the Thomas E. Dewhurst III Law Firm in Conway. She was president of the Bartlett Business Association, president of the Business Professional Women’s Association, president of R.S.V.P., and president of The Fryeburg Rotary Club. She was a founding member of The Red Hat Society in the Mount Washington Valley. (Legacy.com)

William P. Warnken Jr., 77, of Newbury, died March 14, 2026. He coached basketball for 50 years, at Norwich University in Vermont, and Keene, Hillsborough, and Newport high schools. His latest coaching experience was as an assistant coach at Mount Royal Academy in Sunapee. He was a volunteer for almost eight years at the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum. (Chadwick Funeral Home)

Anne Marie (Farley) Zanfagna, 70, of Plaistow, died March 15, 2026. She was a certified diamontologist specializing in the study, evaluation, grading, and valuation of diamonds. She was store manager at Zales in the Fox Run Mall, Newington, retiring in 2014. After her daughter died in 2014, she and her husband James founded Angels of Addictions, a nonprofit organization established in 2016 to raise awareness of opioid-related addictions and support addiction-related causes throughout New Hampshire. In 2018, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen invited her to display more than 100 portraits she painted in the Senate Russell Building Rotunda in Washington, D.C. (Brookside Chapel & Funeral Home)

WORDS OF WISDOM: "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca, died 65 A.D.

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