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The Colebrook Chronicle
Friday, July 8, 2016
Obituaries
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After graduating from Dartmouth, Rocky and Elizabeth, with
Stephen and Ann, moved to Lunenburg, Vermont where they lived for
64 years. It was in Lunenburg that
Rocky became Lunenburg’s second
printer when he purchased the
Bisbee Press from Ernest Bisbee
in 1950. He was beginning what
would be his lifetime passion,
printing books, done well. The
Bisbee Press became The Stinehour Press and Rocky began his
vocation in making books. To quote
Rocky, the aim of The Stinehour
Press was always “to print books
better than ordinary done, a modest goal and an attainable one.” His
talent of assembling a group of
committed people to work with him
and share his vision was evident
throughout his working life. His
first employee was his brother
Laurence, who worked at the Press
until his retirement. Laurence ran
for many years The Hanover Press
in Hanover, which served as a
division of The Stinehour Press.
The Press quickly earned a
national reputation for the quality
of the design, materials and printing of their books, and was soon
printing for some of the great
museums, libraries and scholarly
institutions in the U.S. In 1976 the
Stinehour Press purchased the
Meriden Gravure Company in
Meriden Connecticut, a premier
printer of illustrations. In 1981,
Dartmouth College bestowed an
honorary degree of Doctor of Literature to Rocky, and in 1990 he was
appointed Fellow in the Book Arts
at Dartmouth and taught a course
in the book arts and organized the
summer Typographic Workshop
for 12 years in Hanover. In 1998
Rocky sold the Press to James
Crean PLC, of Dublin, Ireland.
Rocky was also an owner of The
Coos County Democrat (19701978).
He was an active member of
many local organizations include a
member of the Lunenburg School
Board, board member of the Weeks
Memorial Hospital, including
chairman of the board, and an
active member in the Mt. Prospect
Ski Club. National organizations
including the America Antiquarian
Society, Grolier Club, the Century
Club, the Club of Odd Volumes, the
St. Botolph Club, the Bibliographic
Society of America, Trustee of Yale
Library Associates, Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and
Science and the Society of Printers.
He received many awards and
recognitions including, Vermont
Small Business Man of the Year,
RIT Frederic W. Goudy Award,
Benjamin Franklin Award, the
Laureate Award from the American Printing History Association,
named a Fellow of the Vermont
Academy of Arts and Science and
the Certificate of Honor from the
American Friends of the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
Funeral arrangements are
being handled by the Bailey
Funeral Home in Lancaster, New
Hampshire, where visiting hours
were held from 6 to 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, July 5. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on
Wednesday, July 6 at 1 p.m. at All
Saints Catholic Church in Lancaster with Reverend Matthew
Mason, pastor, officiating. Burial
with military honors will follow in
the Calvary Cemetery, Lancaster.
In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to The Gate of
Heaven Parish of Lancaster, or the
Lancaster Food Pantry
Please go to www.baileyfh.net
for more information or to send an
online condolence.
Justin is survived by his longtime partner, Jayne Benson and
her children, of Colebrook; his
mother, Doreen Robbins of Ansonia, Conn.; his father, Valentine
Smith, Sr., of Pennsylvania; two
brothers, Jason Smith of Woodbridge, Conn., and Valentine
Smith, Jr. and wife Danielle of
Tacoma, Wash.,; his step-father,
Vinnie B. of West Stewartstown;
as well as three nieces and three
nephews.
The family will receive visitors
at the Jenkins and Newman
Funeral Home in Colebrook on
Saturday, July 9, 2016, from 2 to 4
p.m. Other services will be private.
Expressions of sympathy in
memory of Justin may be sent to
the NH Fish and Game Dept.,
Attn: Business Div, 11 Hazen Dr.,
Concord, NH 03301.
Condolences may be offered to
the family online by going to
www.jenkinsnewman.com.
Funeral arrangements are
under the direction of Jenkins and
Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook.
Justin R. Smith
Richard Knapp
JUSTIN R. SMITH
COLEBROOK–Justin
R.
Smith, 34, of Colebrook, passed
away as the result of a canoe accident on the Androscoggin River in
Errol on Wednesday, June 29,
2016.
He was born on April 24, 1982,
in Derby, Conn., a son to Doreen
Robbins and Valentine Smith, Sr.
Justin grew up in Connecticut and
developed a hard-worker attitude
and ethic early in life.
Justin was a quiet, shy man,
and a true lover of the outdoors.
He worked hard his entire life,
first at construction in Connecticut, and later in northern N.H.
where he owned and operating his
own business as “the Chimney
Guy” for the past ten years. He
loved to go hunting and fishing,
and loved taking care of his animals on his small home farm in
Colebrook. Justin was one to
always be helping someone else
before he thought of himself.
RICHARD KNAPP
CANAAN, Vt.–Richard G.
Knapp, 74, of Canaan, Vt., passed
away at Dartmouth Medical Center on Wednesday morning, June
29, 2016, after a long period of
failing health following a crush
injury in 1997.
He was born on Feb. 9, 1942, in
Plymouth, Mass., a son t the late
Arthur G. Knapp and Dorothy
(Watson) Knapp.
Richard graduated from Silver
Lake High School in 1960 and
worked as a machinist, including
co-owner of Aime’s Automotive in
Plymouth, Mass.
In 1990 Richard, his wife and
two youngest sons moved to Pittsburg where he worked for R and L
Amey Transport until 1997, when
he was severely injured.
Richard and his wife moved to
Lake Wallace, Vt., in 2002 He was
a former member of Aurora
Grange in Pittsburg, he was an
AMC member and belonged to the
White Mountains 4,000-footer
club, having climbed all of New
Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks. He
also hiked Mt. Washington six
times. After his accident, he
enjoyed woodworking and made
marble games and toy boxes for his
grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret, daughter Kristine (Knapp)
Chaves of Berkley, Mass.; sons
Richard A. of Plymouth, Mass.,
Jarrod and wife Okkyong of Chantilly, Va., James and wife Crystal
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