Digest>Archives> November 2005

Lighthouse Digest Mourns the Loss of Peter Lebetkin

Comments?    


You can see an enlarged version of this picture by clicking here.
>> Click to enlarge <<
Peter Lebetkin (l) and Tim Harrison in the Museum ...
Photo by: Bob Trapani, Jr.

Peter Lebetkin has succumbed to cancer, which, as many of you know, he had been battling for a number of years. Peter was a great lover of lighthouses and the history associated with them. Peter was a schoolteacher who loved working with kids.

He served as a docent in the Museum of Lighthouse History in Wells, Maine, a copy editor for Lighthouse Digest and as the first educational director of the American Lighthouse Foundation. He had been working on several projects for educating children about lighthouses, now unfinished, which ALF hopes to complete. Recently, he had taken a downward turn, but was still able to make it to the grand opening of the Museum of Lighthouse History on August 7th. People like Peter are hard to replace and we will all miss him dearly. His memory will live on in the educational projects that he started and in the many lives that he touched. Donations in his memory can be made to the Dr. Peter Lebetkin Memorial Fund (formerly the Farmington Valley Jewish Congregation's Religious School Discretionary Fund), 55 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, Connecticut.

Sympathy cards can be sent to Gloria Lebetkin,

5 Litchfield Dr., Simsbury, CT 06070-1268.

This story appeared in the November 2005 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.

All contents copyright © 1995-2024 by Lighthouse Digest®, Inc. No story, photograph, or any other item on this website may be reprinted or reproduced without the express permission of Lighthouse Digest. For contact information, click here.


Subscribe
to Lighthouse Digest



USLHS Marker Fund


Lighthouse History
Research Institute


Shop Online












Subscribe   Contact Us   About Us   Copyright Foghorn Publishing, 1994- 2024   Lighthouse Facts     Lighthouse History