Martha H. Doucett

Former Greenport and Shelter Island resident Martha H. Doucett died Dec. 10 at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. She was 96.

She was born Dec. 16, 1913, on Shelter Island to Luther and May (Hartt) Halsey and lived on Long Island until moving to Bennington, Vt., in 2003. She was a communicant of St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport.

Predeceased by her husband, Robert, in 1961, and a son, also Robert, Ms. Doucett is survived by her children, May Burns of Bennington, Philip, of Moss Point, Miss., and Eugene, of Apple Valley, Calif.; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Private services were entrusted to Hanson-Walbridge Funeral Home in Bennington, Vt.

Memorial donations may be sent to Eastern Long Island Hospital, 201 Manor Place, Greenport, NY 11944.