KIERSTEAD, Merle (Banks) Merle (Banks) Kierstead, 90, of East Hartford, widow of Earl F. Kierstead, passed away Thursday, (January 13, 2005) at Salmon Brook Nursing Center in Glastonbury.

Rebekah Kierstead, 25, of Taunton pled guilty Friday in Fall River Superior Court to OUI vehicular homicide in the 2022 death of 28-year-old Matthew Higgins of Middleboro. Higgins was killed when ...

WATERVILLE – Mark Stuart Kierstead, 80, of Waterville, died on Feb. 27, 2025, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was born in Peabody, Mass. on Dec. 8, 1944, during World War II.