Marie E. (Caswell) Roos, 91, of Portland, Maine, died Oct. 21 in her daughter’s home in Scarborough, Maine.

She was a mailroom clerk for the Portland Press Herald.

She leaves a daughter, Cecelia; a son, Paul; two grandchildren, Michelle and Natalie; three great-grandchildren.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

Paul Christiansen, 69, of Bristol, R.I., and formerly of Harrisville, R.I., died Oct. 21 in a hospital after a brief illness.

He published a small weekly newspaper, the former Burrillville (R.I) News.

He leaves a daughter, Courtney; a grandson, Zephyr; his former wife, Patricia.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

Marjorie Fay Palm, 95, of Haddam, Conn., and formerly of West Hartford, Conn., died Nov. 3 in Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn.

Palm was a reporter for the former Hartford (Conn.) Times. She also had been women’s page editor of the now-defunct Sunday Herald of Bridgeport, Conn., and a correspondent for Mademoiselle Magazine.

She interviewed several distinguished figures throughout her career, including Robert Frost and Eleanor Roosevelt. Palm was 23 when she covered the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire. She was one of the first reporters on the scene, and helped lost children find their parents as she was interviewing rescue workers.

Later in life, she edited newsletters for the Connecticut Opera Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Mark Twain House.

She leaves three children, Robert, Christine and Brian; 11 grandchildren; five nieces and nephews.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

Eleanor C. Woodbury, 86, of Dover, N.H., died Oct. 20 in a nursing home in Rochester, N.H.
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Woodbury was a reporter-photographer for Foster’s Daily Democrat of Dover and a newscaster for radio station WWNH-AM in Rochester. She belonged to the National Press Photographer’s Association.

She also was director of publicity and, from 1986 to 1989, assistant publisher for New Hampshire Publishing Company/New England History Press in Somersworth, N.H.

She leaves a daughter, Photini; two sons, Robert and William; a grandson, Jackson.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

James Mutrie Jr., 89, of North Haven, Conn., died Oct. 26 at the Village at Brookfield (Conn.) Common, an assisted living center.

He was a journalist at the New Haven (Conn.) Register for more than 30 years, including as capital bureau chief in Hartford, Conn. He was known as the dean of the capital press corps.

He leaves a daughter, Bonnie; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

Ruth Wolf Page, 95, of Shelburne, Vt., died Oct. 30 at Wake Robin, a retirement community in Shelburne where she had been living, two weeks after having a stroke.

In 1957, she and her husband, Proctor, purchased the Suburban List, a weekly newspaper in Essex, Vt. She was a reporter, copy editor and proofreader, among other duties, for the Suburban List, which won multiple journalism awards during her tenure. She was also a columnist and editorial writer. She authored a weekly column for Suburban List titled Lady Fare, which frequently featured stories about her children and her gardens.

She was a New England Press Association board member and the first female president of the Vermont Press Association.

After selling the Suburban List two decades later, she was editor of a newsletter for the nonprofit Gardens for All, later called the National Gardening Association. She transformed the newsletter into National Gardening Magazine. She retired as editor in 1986.

She also authored a book of gardening essays called “Ruth Page’s Gardening Journal.”

For many years, she was on National Public Radio and Vermont Public Radio, as the presenter of “Ruth Page’s Gardening Journal” and then for narrated essays on nature and human threats to the environment.

She was a commentator on Vermont Public Radio through age 90.

Page also had a role in state politics, first as a two-term member of the board of the Vermont State Colleges, and then as a member of the Vermont Judicial Conduct Board from 1981 to 1986.

She leaves two daughters, Candace and Patti; a son, Robert; four grandchildren; a step-granddaughter; a step-great-granddaughter.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

Theresa “Terry” (Ruff) Walsh of West Hartford, Conn., and Old Lyme, Conn., died Oct. 26 after a brief illness.

In a newspaper career that spanned 40 years, Walsh was regional sales manager at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant and advertising director at the Bristol (Conn.) Press. She also held other sales and management jobs, with The Herald of New Britain and, most recently, with The Day of New London, both in Connecticut.

She leaves her husband, Robert; three sons, Rob, Tim, and Mike; six grandchildren; a brother.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.

John F. Buckley Jr., 97, of Bristol, R.I., formerly of West Roxbury, Mass., died Oct. 28 in Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol.

He was a cartoonist for The Pilot, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

He also was an award-winning correspondent and feature writer for the New England Gas and Electric Association News.

He leaves a daughter, Carol; a grandson, Jamey; a sister.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.