Category: Lyme Memorials

Moonface Bear was a Golden Hill Paugussett Indian. He led a faction of that Connecticut tribe in an armed standoff with state officials in 1993, becoming for a time a symbol of American Indian defiance of authority. Bear died on…

Jenny Umpress contracted Lyme disease when she was 15 years old, and spent the remainder of her life fighting to find the strength to overcome numerous obstacles and hardships. The disease left her bedridden and in terrible pain. It also…

John Thomas Pitner, 28, Tennessee Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) – October 2, 1992 ——– – Deceased Name: JOHN THOMAS ‘TOMMY’ PITNER JOHN THOMAS ‘TOMMY’ PITNER, 28, of Knoxville, formerly of Memphis, vice president for First Tennessee Bank bond department,…