Roland Skreslet
Dr. Roland O. Skreslet, a retired Lynnfield dentist, died Friday at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers. He was 69 and lived in Brooksby Village in Peabody. A native of Portland, Ore., and a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Dentistry, Dr. Skreslet moved to Massachusetts in 1968 and opened a dental practice in Lynnfield, which he ran until 1999. He also lived in the town.During the Vietnam War, Dr. Skreslet was an Army dentist stationed in Missouri. At the time of his discharge, in 1970, he held the rank of captain.
Dr. Skreslet taught oral diagnostics at Boston University Dental School. He was an antiques enthusiast who spent much of his free time tending to his plants and flowers, relatives said.
"He had a waterfall and a pond and rocks that were very strategically placed," said his former wife, Dianne (Steriti) Skreslet of Peabody. "He changed that garden more than I moved the furniture."
Dr. Skreslet leaves a daughter, Dana Trahan of Exeter, N.H.; two sons, Eric of Danvers and Roland of Peabody; a sister, Sylvia Goss of Loma Linda, Calif.; and two grandchildren. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Solimine, Landergan and Richardson Funeral Home in Lynn, at 426 Broadway.
Alice Wedd Larkin
Alice Wedd Larkin, an Army veteran and dietitian, died Saturday at the West Side House in Worcester of complications from pneumonia. She was 79.Ms. Larkin was born in Quincy and attended the Woodward School for Girls. After graduating from Simmons College in 1951 with a degree in dietetics and home economics, she began her 11-year service as first lieutenant with the Army's Medical Service Corps. During that time she served in the Korean War.
She left with a disability but returned during the Bay of Pigs crisis. In between active duty and after she was discharged, Ms. Larkin was a dietitian at hospitals in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Michigan. She had lived for the past nine years in Worcester.
Ms. Larkin loved to read, particularly John Grisham novels, her family said.
She leaves two sisters, Nancy L. Dowling of Milton and Mary Jane of Quincy; and two brothers, James of Greenwich, Conn., and David of Edina, Minn. A funeral Mass will be said today at 11 a.m. at the Holy Trinity Parish at the Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Quincy. Burial with military honors will be at Mount Wollaston Cemetery in Quincy.
