Historical Boston Post Cane Recipients

Name

Birth

Death

Age

Horace Metcalf

June 18, 1818

June 2, 1913

94

Arrabelle Zulema (Moody) Knowles

October 17, 1850

September 7, 1942

91

Alice A. (Metcalf) Morgan

May 19, 1856

March 7, 1951

94

Richard Frank Varney

January 31, 1873

June 12, 1968

95

Swen Alban Burg

1884

May 4, 1970

86

Herbert (Bert) W. Omstead

May 15, 1881

March 19, 1974

92

Florence M. (Merrill) Durgin

May 29, 1884

April 22, 1977

92

Cynthia (Nelson) Brown

1891

September 19, 1986

95

Mildred E. (Page) Potter

May 3, 1894

September 19, 1990

96

Clayton Gerald Hobbs

July 12, 1896

January 21, 1995

98

Katharina (Gegger) Geiger

February 25, 1901

May 16, 1997

96

Hazel Parsons

November 28, 1898

October 17, 2001

102

Leona McClary

April 5, 1905

January 12, 2003

98

Lizzie Bickford

September 18, 1908

June 11, 2005

96

Doris Price Jones (Posthumously)

December 12, 1910

December 1, 2005

94

Ellen N. Cunliffe

May 5, 1911

March 1, 2008

96

James G. Pennock

June 27, 1914

February 20, 2014

99

Rose Marie Young

October 14, 1917

August 28, 2017

99

Hazel N. Fletcher

February 16, 1921

October 19, 2022

101

Helen SchrickerApril 14, 1926-96