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KENNETH A. HURD
BOSTON -- Kenneth A. Hurd, 26, of New Bedford died unexpectedly in Boston Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002.
Born in Fall River, the son of Robert and Kathy (Gisonna) Hurd of East Bridgewater, he attended East Bridgewater schools and lived in New Bedford several years.
Mr. Hurd was a self-employed painter. He loved his children, and enjoyed fishing, music, cooking and the ocean.
Survivors include his parents; two daughters, Samantha Hurd of East Bridgewater and Kelsea Hurd of New Bedford; two brothers, Timothy Hurd and his wife, Amy, of Plymouth, and Justin Laurianno of Fairhaven; two sisters, Amy Medeiros of Fall River and Sara Laurianno of Fairhaven; and a friend, Melissa DaSilva of New Bedford.
A private family funeral was held yesterday, followed by cremation.
Arrangements were by the Blanchard Funeral Home, Plymouth Street, Whitman.
RUTH GOODEN
NEW BEDFORD -- Ruth (Branch) Gooden, 77, of New Bedford, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, at St. Luke's Hospital after a long illness. She was the widow of William Gooden Jr.
Born in Camden, N.J., the daughter of the late Benjamin and Roxie (Anderson) Branch, she lived in New Bedford most of her life. She was a member of the International Church of the Nazarene.
Survivors include a son, William Gooden of New Bedford; two daughters, Roxie Webster of Seattle and Mary Gooden of New Bedford; three brothers, Benjamin Branch, Earle Branch and Nolan Branch, all of Camden; a sister, Gloria Branch of Camden; three grandchildren, Paige Gooden, Sydney Webster and Dylan Webster; and several nieces and nephews.
Her funeral service will be at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St.
Burial in St. John Cemetery will be private.
DOMENIC J. GIOIOSA
NEW BEDFORD -- Domenic J. Gioiosa, 78, of New Bedford died at home Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, after a long, courageous battle with brain cancer. He was the widower of Muriel C. (Lamonde) Gioiosa; they were married 50 years.
A lifelong New Bedford resident, he was the son of the late Joseph and Louisa (Coucci) Gioiosa. He was a communicant of St. Anthony's Church.
Mr. Gioiosa was employed by the New Bedford Fire Department for 34 years until his retirement as district fire chief in 1985. He received numerous commendations for bravery in the line of duty.
He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans, Dr. C.E. Burt Chapter 7. He was an avid swimmer, bicyclist and walker.
During World War II, he served in the Army and fought in northern France, the Rhineland and central Europe. He received the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Ribbon, Victory Medal and Good Conduct Medal.
Survivors include his four children, Carol Fletcher and Patricia Costa, both of Mattapoisett, Steven D. Gioiosa of Dartmouth and Michael Gioiosa of Clermont, Ga.; a brother, Joseph Gioiosa Jr. of New Bedford; two sisters, Rita Peitavino and Esther George, both of New Bedford; seven grandchildren; a great-granddaughter, and several nieces and nephews.
He was the brother of the late Anthony Gioiosa.
His funeral Mass will be at 9:45 a.m. Monday at St. Anne's Church; burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Arrangements are by the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St.
FRANCISCO B. DA SILVA
FALL RIVER -- Francisco B. "Frank" da Silva, 72, of South Main Street, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, at home after a long illness. He was the husband of Paulina (Brito) da Silva.
Born in Terceira, Azores, the son of the late Jose Paula da Silva and Rosa Emilia Borges, he had lived in Fall River since 1982.
He was formerly employed for several years as a roller at Quaker Fabric.
Mr. da Silva was a member of Santo Christo Church in Fall River.
Survivors include his widow; five daughters, Nelia Novo, Lucy Aguiar, Rosa Carreiro, Maria Sousa and Luisa McElroy, all of Fall River; a son, Francisco B. da Silva of Fall River; a sister, Nivia de Castro of San Jose, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
He was the father of the late Francisco B. da Silva.
Funeral services will be held at 7:30 a.m. Saturday from the Oliveira Funeral Home, 215 Columbia St.
His funeral Mass will be held at 8:30 a.m. in Santo Christo Church, Columbia Street.
Burial will be in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Robeson Street.
NORMAND R. BOUCHER
NEW BEDFORD -- Normand Rene Boucher, 84, of New Bedford died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, at Sacred Heart Home after a brief illness.
A lifelong New Bedford resident, he was the son of the late Joseph E. and Mary Ann (LeBlanc) Boucher. He was a communicant of St. Anthony's Church.
Mr. Boucher was a stock clerk at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut and Hathaway Mills until his retirement.
In his leisure time, he enjoyed watching baseball.
Survivors include three sisters, Juliette Newcomb of Houston, Ednora Roy of New Bedford and Claire L. Nicholas of North Dartmouth; eight nieces, Roberta Rivet, Elaine Carolus and Lucille Mello, all of North Dartmouth, Diane Lizotte of Rochester, Carol Warner of Windsor, Conn., Shirley Bouchard of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Lorraine Manley and Dorothy Atkins, both of Connecticut; and two nephews, Robert Dupont of New Bedford and Michael Nicholas of Lakeville.
He was the brother of the late Violet Gautreau, Lillian Dupont, Theodore Boucher, Lionel Boucher and Herve Boucher.
His funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Anthony's Church; burial will be Sacred Heart Cemetery No. 2.
Arrangements are by Rock Funeral Home, 1285 Ashley Blvd.
MANUEL BARBOSA
NEW BEDFORD -- Manuel Barbosa, 78, of New Bedford, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, at St. Luke's Hospital after a long illness. He was the husband of Maria I. (Martin) Barbosa.
Born in Rosaria, Lagoa, Sao Miguel, Azores, he lived in New Bedford for 17 years and was a communicant of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. He was a member of the Holy Name Society and the Holy Ghost Society of his church.
Mr. Barbosa was a floater at Brockton Shoe Co. until his retirement in 1992.
Survivors include his widow; three sons, Luis M. Barbosa and his wife, Patricia, Francisco Barbosa and his wife, Peggy, and Carlos Barbosa, all of New Bedford; four daughters, Osvalda Ponte and her husband, Eugenio, Teresa Sousa and her husband, Luis, Maria Botelho and her husband, Arnaldo, all of New Bedford, and Maria Lurdes Silva and her husband, Antonio, of Sao Miguel; a sister, Maria L. Pimentel of Sao Miguel; 24 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
His funeral Mass will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church; interment Rural Cemetery.
Arrangements are by the Cabral-Lamoureux Funeral Home, 177 Cove St.
MILTON GITLIN
NEW BEDFORD -- Milton Gitlin, 86, of John Winthrop Street, Dartmouth, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, at St. Luke's Hospital. He was the husband of Sylvia (Kleger) Gitlin.
Born in Fall River, the son of the late Louis and Rebecca (Logovsky) Gitlin, he lived in the New Bedford/Dartmouth area for more than 55 years.
Mr. Gitlin was co-founder of Gitlin Industries, Mid City Scrap Co. and Mid City Steel Co. of Westport.
He was a graduate of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in New York and attended Durfee Technical School, the forerunner of UMass Dartmouth.
He was a World War II Army veteran and served as an interpreter and administrator for the military government in displaced person and prisoner of war camps in Germany.
He was a member of Tifereth Israel Congregation, Allendale County Club and Indian Springs Country Club in Florida.
Survivors include his widow; a son, Bernard Gitlin of Newton; two daughters, Selda "Sam" Goldberg of Lincoln, R.I., and Leslea Harelick of Dartmouth; a brother, Herman Gitlin of Somerset; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was the brother of the late Barney Gitlin, Willie Gitlin, Edward Gitlin, Ann White and Ida Rubin.
His funeral services will be at noon Friday at Tifereth Israel Congregation; burial will be in Plainville Cemetery.
Arrangements are by the Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel, 458 Hope St., Providence.
ALFRED S. BROTHERS SR.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BROCKTON -- Former Massachusetts legislator and community leader Alfred S. Brothers Sr., a friend who encouraged former Sen. Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., to enter politics, has died.
Brothers, 82, died Friday at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.
"He talked me into running for the state House of Representatives and I hadn't even voted up until that point," said Brooke, the first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction, who represented Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979. He also was a state attorney general.
Brothers and Brooke first met at Fort Devens, when Brooke was a lieutenant fresh out of Reserve Officer Training Corps at Howard University. They fought during World War II across Italy in an antitank unit as members of the all-black 366th Infantry Regiment. Brothers was awarded a Bronze Star for bravery.
Brothers represented Boston's Roxbury section in the state House of Representatives from 1961 to 1964.
JOHN P. FRANK, LAWYER BEHIND MIRANDA RIGHTS
By THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
John P. Frank, the constitutional scholar, professor and lawyer whose defense of Ernesto Miranda before the U.S. Supreme Court helped assure the civil rights of all criminal suspects, has died. He was 84.
Frank, a staunch civil libertarian and key adviser in an earlier U.S. Supreme Court case mandating school desegregation, died Saturday in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital following a heart attack.
A prominent lawyer for 62 years, Frank wrote or delivered arguments many times before the Supreme Court. One client in the 1950s was the state of Arizona trying to preserve its share of the Colorado River from "our great neighbor to the west (California) who is trying to get all the water in the river." A 1970s client was the State Bar of Arizona trying to block attorney advertising -- Frank argued that advertising by a member of any profession was "inherently deceptive," only to acknowledge a decade later that "marketing" was a necessity even for his well-known Phoenix firm of Lewis and Roca.
But Frank's most famous client unquestionably was Miranda, an oft-jailed criminal who was arrested in 1963 in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old woman. Picked out of a lineup, Miranda confessed and was convicted and sentenced to 20 to 30 years in prison. The Arizona Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
That's when the American Civil Liberties Union stepped in, recruiting Frank and his partner John J. Flynn, to take the case to Washington. Frank wrote the brief and told Flynn to argue it, adding generously: "This case will make your reputation. I've already argued before the Supreme Court."
The Miranda decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren and announced June 13, 1966, became a hallmark of the Warren court's record of expanding individual rights. The court adopted Frank's proposed standard requiring all law-enforcement authorities to read suspects a list of civil rights already provided by the FBI.
The ruling was immediately vilified by several police and prosecutors and has been the subject of debate and litigation ever since. The Supreme Court again upheld the decision in 2000. Frank did not save Miranda. The man was retried, again convicted and given the same 20- to 30-year sentence minus time already served.
When he was released, he returned to the streets and died of knife wounds in 1976.
But Frank helped established the legal requirement.
EUGENE F. DOUILLETTE
LAKEVILLE -- Eugene F. Douillette, 88, formerly of Brockton, died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, at the Wedgemere Rehabilitation and Nursing Center after a period of failing health. He was the husband of Linda R. (Guglia) Douillette; they were married 60 years.
Born and educated in Brockton, where he lived for 86 years before moving to Lakeville, he was the son of the late Fortuna J. and D. Angelina Douillette. He was a former communicant of Sacred Heart Church, Brockton, and Sts. Martha and Mary Church, Lakeville.
Mr. Douillette retired from the American Bultrite Rubber Co. of Stoughton and was self-employed in Brockton until a year before moving to Lakeville.
He served in the Army in the Philippine Islands during World War II and was a life member of the Whitman Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 697.
He was a former sergeant of the Sacred Heart Garde d'Honneur drill team and a former member and pilot of the Brockton Aviation Club.
Survivors include his widow; two sons, Ronald J. Douillette of Rockland and Alan E. Douillette and his wife, Jean A., of Lakeville; a sister, Irene Cavanaugh of Scituate; seven grandchildren, Dawn C. Douillette of Brockton, Jesse A. Douillette, serving with the Navy, Joanna L. and David J. Douillette of Bridgewater, and Steven J. Douillette, Sarah L. Douillette and Laura M. Douillette, all of Lakeville; five nieces; and nine nephews.
He was the brother of late Lionel J. Douillette and Antoinette S. Burns.
Arrangements were by the Pica Funeral Home with burial in Melrose Cemetery, Brockton.
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