Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts, Honor Roll

Pigeon Cove is part of the town of Rockport, Massachusetts, originally a section of Gloucester. The first person to settle in this area was Walter Gott about 1702, and there is still a Gott Lane near his original homestead. Pigeon Cove is on the very tip of Cape Ann.  It is about 1.5 miles north of Rockport Harbor.

You will see many names from Scandinavia on the honor roll below. These immigrants from Finland and Sweden were brought in to work the granite quarries, as well as Italians and Portuguese. Granite quarries were very busy in this part of Gloucester, as well as fishing and other maritime occupations.  Later, this was a summer resort area, with a busy port for recreational boaters. The number of residents listed under "Navy", "Marines" and "Coast Guard" is longer than the list for "Army", which is unusual and reflects the maritime occupations of Rockport.

This honor roll was dedicated on April 23, 1945.  The Rockport Rotary Club restored the honor roll  in 1998. It stands next to the Pigeon Cove library on the corner of Granite and Curtis Streets. 

PIGEON COVE HONOR ROLL
For God and Country

ARMY

Anderson, Walter H.
Balzarini, Gino
Balzarini, John C.
Balzarini, Lino
Balzarini, Louis
Caffery, Dennis E.
Caffery, George W.
Carter, William A.
Casey, Edward J.
Conley, Miriam B.
Dorman, John W.
Erickson, Arline M.
Erickson, Raymond O.
Erwin, Leo C., Jr.
Fears, Richard M.
Gray, Harry E.
Gray, Roy E.
Hautala, Arne J. *
Helsberg, Uno S.
Hillier, Pingree F.
Johnson, Carl A.
Johnson, Robert F.
Johnson, Tolvo A.
Jylkka, William
Kantala, Leon W.*
Kendall, Milton F.
Kulju, Karl O.
Kulju, Tanna E.
Lahtinen, Nestor O.
Lundberg, Nancy
Lizotte, James E.
Mackey, Eino
Makkonen, Reino
Mattson, William R.
Morse, John R.
Nelson, Charles
Newman, Grant T.
Nielsen, N. Albert
O'Connell, Harold R.
O'Hearn, Joseph R.
Oxton, A. Theodore
Peterson, Uno A.
Peterson, Waino A.
Philbrook, Mortimer
Polloni, Mario
Pommett, Paul J.
Reed, Isabel E.
Savinen, Jorma E.
Sears, Joseph S.
Stone, John E.
Swanson, Andrew
Sweet, Homer
Tuomi, Kaino I.
Wallace, Harold C.
Wallace, Lester A.
Wayrynen, Walter
Woodbury, Benton R.


NAVY

Aspesi, Charles A.
Aspesi, Louis
Aspesi, Peter F.
Aspesi, Robert P.
Baker, Wain
Balzarini, John
Bernard, Robert A.
Bernard, Paul
Bottomley, George
Carter, George R.
Carter, Herbert P.
Carter, Walter R.
Easton, Roland
Erickson, Robert T.
Erwin, Robert
Ferazzi, Charles L.
Goss, Frederick H.
Hautala, Matt A.
Head, Herbert F.
Hillier, Pearson T.
Holgerson, Albin
Huttunen, John E.
Mackey, Charles
Mattson, Robert A.
McLellan, John K.
Olson, Melvin A.
Olson, Warren E.
Pratt, Donald R.
Pratt, Harold R.
Peterson, Theodore
Ranta, Jacob H.
Ranta, William E.
Reed, Donald
Reed, John F.
Shewbridge, Henry
Silva, Robert E.
Spillman, John W.
Story, Benton C.
Svenson, Charles J.
Swanson, Carl P.
Swanson, Howard B.
Swanson, Richard
Swanson, Robert W.
Tighe, James M.
Watters, Theodore
Williamson, Valmar
Williamson, Charles
Woodbury, George

MARINES

Frisbee, Robert S.
Jaksland, Siggurd N.
Story, Carlton L.

COAST GUARD

Aspesi, Gino
Erickson, Arthur R.
Fredricksen, Harry
Hale, Colburn M.
Hale, Richard C.
Makkonen, Miilo J.
McLellan, Alice P.
Nordstrand, Axel
Olson, Arthur L.
Olson, Thor B.
Polloni, Peter
Stone, Fred P.
Tognazzi, Joseph J.
Wiberg, Tolvo F.

MARITIME SERVICE

Bailey, Edward N.
Bates, Edward W.
Conigliari, Victor V.
Cordich, John N.
Landergren, Herbert
Nelson, Henry
O'Connel, Edward C.
Parsons, Lambert W.
Wallace, Robert

A map of Pigeon Cove from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts, Honor Roll", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 23, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/05/pigeon-cove-gloucester-massachusetts.html: accessed [access date]).