Virginia “Ginny” Sellers Shaw 1936-2025 Virginia “Ginny” Sellers Shaw, 89, died on December 18, 2025 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born in 1936 to James Townsend and Lyn (Sligh) Sellers in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, followed by her younger sister, Lyn Carol, in 1939. After graduating Vassar College, Ginny received a Master of Education from Radcliffe College and moved to Greenwich Village in New York City where she began her life as an educator.   At twenty-six, she met and

Carla Bee 1938 - 2025 Carla Bee’s (1938-2025) beautiful spirit left her body the night of December 6th, 2025, her final breaths a holy song offered up to God. She transitioned peacefully in her Northampton home thanks to a host of angelic care givers. Angels are singing to Carla now, just as she sang in six languages to the sick and dying in nursing homes across Massachusetts for 20 years. She called them "her people.” For many, Carla's sweet voice was the last voice they wou

On January 10, 2026, at his home in Plainfield, MA, Peter Bumpus met death in much the same way he lived his life: with courage and inner strength. Born in Boston, September 7, 1943 to Amy Virginia Nelson, Peter was adopted as an infant by Dean and Katherine (Miner) Bumpus and raised in Woods Hole. He graduated from Tabor Academy in 1961 and Marlboro College in 1965. Peter’s love for adventure and the outdoors was evident from an early age. With his father he summited Mount