WINDSOR, VT
Phyllis P. French, 89, a resident of Harvest Hill in Lebanon and formerly of Windsor, passed away Sunday evening, May 10 at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
She was born December 4, 1925 in Randolph, VT the daughter of Charles B. and Lilah (McCarthy) Prescott. She received her schooling in Randolph and graduated from Randolph High School in 1943. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 1947 earning her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education. Mrs. French taught briefly in the Barre Montpelier area, before moving to Windsor in 1948, where she was employed as an elementary school teacher by the Windsor School District at State Street School for forty years until her retirement.
Phyllis loved to play golf and was a longtime member of the John P. Larkin Country Club in Windsor. She enjoyed sewing and was an excellent seamstress. She especially loved teaching and caring for children. She also enjoyed conversing with her many friends, but her greatest joy was spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.
She moved to Harvest Hill in Lebanon in 2009 where she enjoyed meeting new people and actively participated in many activities.
She was predeceased by her parents, one brother, Charles B. Prescott, Jr., two sisters, Joyce Prescott and Janet Brown, and an infant daughter, Mary Ann French in 1949.
Survivors include two daughters, Patricia M. Milowsky and her husband, Marc of Hartland, VT and Kathleen A. French-Wilson and her husband, Curtis Wilson of De Pere, WI, six grandchildren, Megan, Molly, Morgan, Madison, Emily and Seth, seven great grandchildren, her twin sister, Patricia Russin of Millerton, NY, and several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held at a later date. Committal services will be held in the Ascutney Cemetery in Windsor.
Memorial contributions may be made to David's House at PO Box 660, Lebanon, NH 03766
The Knight Funeral Home in Windsor is entrusted with the arrangements.