Time once again to pause and reflect on yet another year as it prepares to enter the history books.

Which also means it’s time for my annual tribute to local folk we lost over the course of the past 12 months. First, my disclaimer: If you lost someone close to you and he or she isn’t included here, please know it’s not because he or she is unworthy of mention.

So please join me in remembering the following, and feel free to take extra time to remember those who were particularly close to you.

January

Anthony “Tony” DuBois, 37, Nashua man with muscular dystrophy who battled state budget cuts, died Jan. 8.

“Mighty Quinn,” Nashua resident Randy Pierce’s service dog, friend and companion, was 9 when he died Jan. 20.

• Brookline Village Store owner William A. “Butch” Batte Jr. died Jan. 23 while on vacation in Barbados.

Kevin Johnson, 55-year-old Nashua man, died Jan. 27 of injuries sustained when his bicycle was struck by a minivan.

Well-known city businessman Charles E. Forrence was 94 when he passed Jan. 30.

February

Downtown Nashua lost beloved hair stylist and downtown advocate Alla Vatalaro on Feb. 1.

Dedicated Nashua English teacher and Drama Club head Walter Heinhold died Feb. 6.

Vincent “Vinnie” Magnano was just 19 and attending Sierra Nevada College when he died Feb. 7.

• Alexander J. Koutsos, city business icon who founded Alec’s Shoe Store in 1938, died Feb. 15 at 96.

Former Nashua Public Works director George Crombie died Feb. 23 at his Plymouth, Mass. home, the same day a hit-and-run accident in Nashua claimed the life of 63-year-old Robert Derome.

March

Lifelong Milford resident James D. Cassidy, the avid music fan and occasional performer known as “Major Motion,” died at age 71 on March 14.

Paul J. Charron, founder of Nashua’s Charron Medical Equipment, was 74 when he died March 16.

Patrick McGovern, a Hollis resident and New Hampshire’s only known billionaire, died March 19 in California. He was 76.

Lifelong Nashuan and retired Deputy Police Chief Robert H. Belanger was 86 when he died March 24.

Alice Leard Dube, a longtime alderman who almost became Nashua’s first female mayor in the 1970s, died March 25 at age 101.

April

Robert T. B. Kulas, the middle of three generations to run downtown Nashua’s former Philbrick’s Fish Market, died at 82 on April 4.

Roland Lefebvre, a “veteran’s veteran” and former state representative, was 90 when he died April 14.

Centenarian Lottie Jasinski, a well-known hairdresser, was 101 when she died April 15 in Hudson.

May

Andres Garcia, 35, succumbed to gunshot wounds on May 3 following a shooting the day before in downtown Nashua.

Two centenarians – well-known Pelham resident Herbert S. Currier and longtime Rivier University administrator Sister Adrienne Beauregard – both died May 3; they were 100 and 101 years old, respectively.

Elliott E. Wilshire, longtime Nashuan who worked at Brookdale Farm in Hollis for 75 years and was president of Hollis High class of 1948, died May 11 at age 83. Prominent auto dealer and prominent industry figure Vincent F. Tulley was 90 when he died May 12.

The heroin scourge claimed the life of Milford resident John Paul “JP” Young on May 18.

Caleb Daniel Arel, who assembled “birthday bags” so other hospitalized children could enjoy their birthdays, had just turned 6 when he died May 22.

Hudson Memorial School honor student Nicole Paige Jacques lost her courageous battle with fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma on May 29; she was 14. The same day, Bishop Guertin High School and the Nashua Silver Knights lost a popular coach with the unexpected death of Thomas “Tom” Bowles, who was 67.

June

A motorcycle accident June 2 in Stratham claimed the life of Dr. Leon C. Haas, 61, of Merrimack. A week later, Nashua resident Stephen Hill, 59, was also killed in a motorcycle crash.

Merrimack residents were plunged into mourning on June 11, when Town Council chairman and prominent business owner David G. Yakuboff Sr. collapsed and died; he was 59.

Longtime Milford Cabinet reporter and columnist William Ferguson died June 18.

Beloved Keene High teacher Shannon Lacy, a 2006 Nashua High North graduate, died unexpectedly June 30; she was 26.

July

The extended Toyota of Nashua family lost their leader with the death on July 6 of Wil Piekarski, 84. Dermatologist Dr. James C. Starke, longtime resident of Melendy Farm in Amherst, was 85 when he died the same day.

Centenarian Lucy (Eosco) Lescard was 100 when she died in Hudson July 15.

Gregarious wife, mom and grandmom Elizabeth McQuinn was killed when a dump truck struck her car in South Merrimack July 16; the Nashua woman was 60.

Prominent local and regional developer Gerald Q. Nash, who got his start as a kid selling popcorn balls to WPA workers for a nickel apiece, was 90 when he died July 25.

And popular Little League coach and Nashua High custodian Lenny Holbrook died July 30; he was 70.

August

The Hollis-Brookline community mourned the loss in August of Kendall Van Shoick, 21, a 2011 HBHS grad who captained the volleyball team.

Catherine (Cay) Gregg, known philanthropist and widow of former Gov. Hugh Gregg and mother of Judd Gregg, also a former N.H. governor as well as U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman, was 96 when she died Aug. 1.

Nashua resident Urena Holguin, 77, died Aug. 4 in what was considered a drowning accident. Also that day Nashua lost one of its most famous golfers with the death of Valmor “Val” Poulin.

• Tragedy claimed the life of 22-year-old Merrimack resident Patrick J. Terrin, who was struck and killed by a train in California Aug. 7.

Nashua native, World War II veteran and noted athlete Alphonse J. Andruskevich was 92 when he died Aug. 8.

Author, historian and former newspaperman Robert “Bob” Goldsack, 82, passed on Aug. 13.

Francis T. Smith, Litchfield police officer, firefighter and lifelong mechanic, was 94 when he died Aug. 14.

Jennifer T. Parzych, a lifelong Nashua resident who as a teen was paralyzed in an auto accident, died Aug. 22 at age 39.

September

Merrimack police and the community mourned the passing of veteran police detective Ed Pane, who died Sept. 2 of ALS at age 47.

A sudden act of domestic violence on Sept. 14 claimed the life of beloved teacher Elizabeth “Betsey” Trombly, who was shot by her son John, 35, who took his own life.

Thomas “Coach Mac” MacDonald, Bishop Guertin teacher and coach of football and baseball, died at 83 on Sept. 15.

Madeline “Nan” Irene Bennett, a centenarian who has a Merrimack street named for her, died Sept. 17 in Manchester.

October

Longtime Nashua police officer Robert “Pops” Eastman was 76 when he passed Oct. 10 at his Nashua home.

Frank “Pete” Flanders, who died at 88 on Oct. 11, was Merrimack’s first full-time police chief.

Julia Papadopoulos, a Nashua librarian for 30 plus years, died Oct. 11 at age 81.

Artist, writer and Rivier University teacher and research librarian Nita Van Zandt died Oct. 14 at age 65.

Nashua’s award-winning surrealism artist Suzanne Duhamel, who battled multiple illnesses, died Oct. 20 at age 54.

A horrendous accident involving two cars and a tractor-trailer Oct. 22 in Amherst killed 32-year-old Andrea Janelle Gage, of Milford.

McKenzie Robin Lowe, the young Hudson girl who made headlines for her courage and battle for treatment for brain cancer, succumbed to the illness on Oct. 24. She was 13.

November

Leonard “Lenny” Boucher, longtime corner-store grocer and Exchange Club of Nashua member, died Nov. 8 at the N.H. Veterans Home. Also that day, The Telegraph family lost old friend Richard “Dick” Talcott, former pressroom foreman, who was 78.

Hollis’ eldest resident, Frederick S. Townsend Sr., was 102 when he passed Nov. 11.

Former Hollis resident Elizabeth D. Stabler was 32 when she died Nov. 13 in Tucson, Ariz.

A gruesome crash on Nashua’s Tinker Road Nov. 19 killed Merrimack resident Jennifer Blaire Demers; she was 33.

Former city attorney, public defender and Ward 3 alderman James “Jamie” McNamee passed Nov. 24 after a long illness.

Little Brielle Gage was just 3 when she died of blunt force trauma Nov. 25; the circumstances remain under police investigation.

Sidney Goodridge, the man who built the iconic Milford Drive-In Theater almost 60 years ago, died Nov. 26 at age 87.

Another disturbing spate of domestic violence on Nov. 29 claimed the life of Nashua resident Meg-Anne “Meg” Halley, 55, who was killed by her longtime boyfriend, Al Rediker, who took his own life.

December

Well-known retired Nashua attorney and N.H. Supreme Court judge Sherman D. Horton Jr. was 83 when he died Dec. 3 in Concord.

Two famous inventors with strong Nashua ties – Lester Brodeur and Ralph Baer – died a day apart: Brodeur, 75, passed on Dec. 5 and Baer, 92, on Dec. 6.

Hollis centenarian Robert F. Gould was 100 when he died Dec. 9, the same day that well-known Nashua veteran, machinist, historian and civic volunteer Frank H. Mellen passed at age 88.

Robert N. Bickford, a member of the Nutting’s Music Store-Darrell’s Music Hall family and renowned Nashua Country Club curler, died at 85 on Dec. 10.

Sgt. Stephen R. Paquin, a Nashua High North baseball and football star who served two tours in Afghanistan, was just 27 when he died Dec. 16.

Also on Dec. 16, the area lost one of its most noted thespians with the passing of 56-year-old Kevin P. Riley, a Hudson resident who among many endeavors headed the Nashua Theatre Guild.

Leonard “Lenny” Dobens, a prolific New York Life insurance salesman for 55 years who gave his time to countless causes and made countless friends, succumbed to a lingering illness on Dec. 19.

Best wishes to all for a Happy New Year 2015.

Dean Shalhoup’s column appears Saturdays in The Telegraph. He can be reached at 594-6443 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com. Also, follow Shalhoup on Twitter (@Telegraph_DeanS).