
Nicole “Nikki” Barstis, age 33, a lifelong resident of Abington, passed away on Monday, October 17, 2016 surrounded by her loving family.
Nikki loved all sorts of crafts including stringing beads and having her nails done by her friends. She enjoyed Shopping but most of all she loved her dog Ziggy.
Nicole is survived by her loving parents, William F. and Anne (Rexford) Barstis of Abington and her brother Richard Barstis also of Abington. She was the niece of Judy and Bill Starkie of Rockland, Janice Rath of VT, Claire Rexford, Paul and Sharon Rexford and Alice Grant all of Weymouth. Cousin of Paul and Jake Hughes of Abington, Lori, Rich and Sarah Linderman of NJ, Holly, Brent and Devin Marsney all of Pembroke, Elizabeth Rexford of Rockland and Daniel Grant of Weymouth. Nikki also leaves her special friends, Brynne Herrick, Alexa Hayden, and many other friends from GROW Associates.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to the visiting hours for Nicole at the C. C. Shepherd Funeral Home, 134 Pleasant St. (Columbian Sq.) S. Weymouth. Relatives and friends will gather in the funeral home on Friday for a celebration of life prior to the funeral Mass in honor of Nikki which will be held at the St. Francis Xavier Church, 234 Pleasant St. S. Weymouth. Interment will be in the Lakeview Cemetery in S. Weymouth MA.
Source: C.C. Sheppard funeral Home Weymouth MA.2
1875 Born to George Palmer Putnam ( 1842-1930) . & Agnes Adelia (nee Hall) Putnam (1851-1909).
1876 Baptism on June 11th in Buffalo at Calvary Presbyterian Church.
1880 Federal Census for East New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey: George P. Putnam, age 35, Occupation: terracotta works, Agnes R, age 29, George P, age 4, Mary H, age 1 . George born in NY, Agnes born in LA, others born in NJ. Also 2 servants: Hattie Buckley, 32, childrens' nurse, and Margaret Frawley, 19, house servant.
1894 Yale University yearbook- Sheffield scientific school
1900 Federal Census for 216 West 70th Street, Manhattan, NY: George P. Putnam, age 57, Occupation: manufacturer, Agnes R, age 49, both married at age 27, 4 children born, 4 alive, George P, age 24, Occupation: telephone engineer, Mary H, age 22, . George born in NY, Agnes born in LA, others born in NY. Also servant Sarah A. Connelly, 28, born in Ireland.
1910 Federal Census for Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio: boarder George P. Putnam, age 34, Occupation: canvasser; telephone, born in NY.
1918 Draft registration for World War I on Sep 9th: George Palmer Putnam, Jr, 42, Employer: Chicago Telephone Co. Relative: George P. Putnam, 1170 Broadway, NY, NY.
1920 Federal Census 5801 University Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois: lodger George P. Putnam, age 44, Occupation: clerk; telephone, single, born in NY.
1930 Federal Census on April 11th for 1155 East 57th Street (Club House), Chicago, Cook, Illinois: lodger George P. Putnam, age 54, Occupation: traffic supervisor; telephone, not a veteran, born in NY.
1930 Marriage on Sep 5th in Maine: George P. Putnam, of Chicago, and Lucy S. Holland of Philadelphia.
1934 Arrival in NY, NY on SS 'Ile de France' on June 12th from Plymouth, England. George 58, and Lucy S. H, age 53. Address: 213 Beech Tree Lane, Wayne, PA. Passport # 78843
1940 Federal Census for 213 Beech Tree Lane, Radnor, Delaware, Pennsylvania: George P. Putnam, age 64, Occupation: manufacturer, wife Lucy S. H, age 54/59, he born in NY, she born in KY
1957 Death at age 81. Cause of death: carcinoma of the prostate. cremated.1

THE SYBIL OF GREENWICH VILLAGE...
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ABOUT
BARBARA A. HOLLAND
by Brett Rutherford
Her sister Marian McAllister writes about Barbara’s childhood:
Barbara was sickly for the first year or two and had little contact with other children. She taught herself to read, at first from labels on food packages and ads in trolley cars. By the time she was five she was teaching me, two years younger, to read as well. Living within walking distance of the University (of Pennsylvania) Museum, where her father often took her, Barbara developed an interest in other languages, first in hieroglyphics, then in Chinese. All three of us went to an old-fashioned "dame school" of some twenty-four children from the University of Pennsylvania community. The single room held "classes" ranging from kindergarten through sixth grade.
Barbara then attended private schools, graduating from the Baldwin School in 1943. Barbara Holland received a B.A, from University of Pennsylvania in 1948, and an M.A. from the same institution in 1951. Although she had completed all the course work for a Ph.D, she left graduate school without completing her thesis. She worked in Worcester, MA on a new edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, taught at a college in West Virginia, researched genealogies, and then worked in New York City for a Wall Street brokerage.
Finally, the lure of Bohemia — Greenwich Village — and the life of a poet, became irresistible. With the slender income from a small cache of stocks and bonds, she quit working around 1962 and rented the apartment at 14 Morton Street in Greenwich Village that would be home for the rest of her life.
Her first chapbook publication, self-published and undated, was Medusa , a 20-page stapled booklet. Another collection, Return in Sagittarius , was published in 1965. Another chapbook was A Game of Scraps (1967). A projected volume of her poems with the photographs of Donald Curran apparently did not materialize, but the poems alone appeared in a slender chapbook as Lens, Light, and Sound (1968). Other small chapbooks were Melusine Remembered (1974), On This High Hill (1974) and You Could Die Laughing (1975).
Holland received a Creative Arts Public Service Fellowship in 1974, and during the following year was engaged in workshops and visits with many schools. She was a fellow at the Macdowell Colony in 1976. She read frequently throughout the Northeast at poetry readings, guest-edited two issues of Boston’s Stone Soup poetry journal, and read her work on radio for WBAI, WRVR, WUWM, and WNYC. She recorded for Folkways Records and on broadcasts for Voice of America. The poet was also involved with The New York Poets Cooperative, a writers’ group founded in 1969. A founding member, she organized and scheduled poetry readings they hosted at St. John’s Church in the Village.
Her greatest success was in the then-burgeoning little magazines, and Holland could boast that her poems had appeared in over 1,000 magazines and publications. She was certainly one of the most-published American poets of the 1970s and 1980s. Her association with The Poet’s Press began in 1973 with the publication of Autumn Wizard , a sampler from her long cycle of poems inspired by the surrealist painter Rene Magritte. This cycle, Crises of Rejuvenation , was published by The Poet’s Press, in 1973 and 1974 in two volumes, and remains in print in a single-volume 30th anniversary edition. Other collections of Holland’s work from this publisher include Burrs (1977), Autumn Numbers (1980), Collected Poems, Volume 1 (1980), and In the Shadows (1984).
Another small press, Warthog Books, issued its own “selected poems” collection of Holland’s work, Running Backwards (1983).
Holland’s readings of her poems were from memory, even including her longer dramatic pieces. Audiences were riveted by her performances, whether of the spine-chilling “Black Sabbath,” the self-effacing humor of “The Inevitable Knife,” or the desolate sorrow of “Not Now, Wanderer.” Michael Redmond wrote of her in 1981 in The Newark Star-Ledger, “Barbara Adams Hollandhe is a poet who evades categorization. Her work has been variously described as romantic, mythic, supernatural and surreal; she is as adept at evoking a seascape as in creating a monologue by Medusa. There are city poems, and love poems, and poems both funny and terrifying. The common denominator is her extraordinary imagination, the classical precision of her language, and a wild sense of humor.”
During her last five years, the poet was beset with health problems. She had difficulty reading her work, and her performances were marred by long pauses and memory lapses. After a series of small strokes, her health declined and she spent some time recovering at her sister’s home in Philadelphia. Returning to New York, she died there on September 21, 1988.
Several contemporaneous reviews and essays had acknowledged Holland’s extraordinary gifts, most notably a long review by Stephen-Paul Martin in Central Park (1981), and a symposium issue on the poet in Contact II (1979), but Holland never achieved the fame she richly deserved.3

Beloved mother, Janet "Jennie" A. Eldredge, 92, of 1704 E. 6400 South, died Sept. 2, 1979, after a brief illness.
??Born Dec. 4, 1886, Murray, to William I. and Elizabeth Gallafant Adamson. Married Leon Eldredge Aug. 18, 1909, in Salt Lake LDS Endowment House. Member, LDS Church. Active in Relief Society and special interest group.
??Survivors: three sons, three daughters, Milton L., Grant W. "Pat", Don, Garnet E. Anderson, Virginia E. Nelson, Janet E. Hansen; 25 grandchildren; all of Salt Lake City.
??One daughter, Maxine Eldredge, preceded her in death.
??Funeral services Wednesday noon at Cottonwood 11th LDS Ward, 1830 E. 6400 South. Viewing Tuesday 7-9 p.m. at Jenkins-Soffe Mortuary, 4760 S. State, and Wednesday one hour prior to services at the church. Interment, Murray City Cemetery.
The Salt Lake Tribune | Salt Lake City, Utah | September 4, 1979.1
