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Lynne Killmer Stanton
Nov 19, 2025
SHARON — Lynne passed away peacefully at home on Nov. 4 after a long illness. She was born in Sharon, Connecticut, and attended Sharon Center School and HVRHS. In her junior year, Lynne transferred to Rincon High in Tucson Arizona. She made lifelong friends at HVRHS.
Lynne had many interests and talents and was known for her kindness and humor. She had a seat weaving business, was an avid gardener, loved boat rides on the lake, sold antiques and collectibles, and also hosted many fun celebrations (an annual pumpkin fiesta was a favorite) with family and friends! She started The Hills advertising magazine (a great joy in her life) where she met and made many lifelong friends.
She is survived by her husband, Bill and her sisters, Eileen and husband Ralph Coons of Tucson Arizona, Noreen and husband Tim Fahey of Huntington Vermont, and brother Ted Killmer and wife Annmarie of Divide Colorado. She leaves behind Bill’s brother Tom and sisters Sandra, Therese, and Mary and their families. She loved her many nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends’ children.
A Celebration of Life will be held in the spring. The family would like to thank The Salisbury Volunteer Ambulance Service, Lolly Schroeder for her kind and compassionate care, HVRHS friends for love and support, and friends and family for all our shared times! Contributions can be made to SVAS PO Box 582 Salisbury CT 06068-0582.
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Elizabeth Stone Potter
Nov 19, 2025
SALISBURY — Elizabeth Stone Potter passed away peacefully on Nov. 5, 2025, due to complications of Parkinson’s disease. She had recently celebrated her 94th birthday.
She was born in northern (then still rural) Westchester county to Ralph and Betty Stone.
“Pebble” (a nick name afforded her as the first child in a family of Stones) cherished all her communities, especially those in New York City and Norfolk, Connecticut.
After a childhood education in a much storied one room schoolhouse in Waccabuc, she left home for northern Virginia and became a proud member of the Foxcroft School class of 1949.
Graduating from Foxcroft she went, with her big horse in tow, to Wellesley College. There (or at least nearby) she met the dashing Idahoan with a sports car who would become her husband for nearly 60 years.
She and Dave set up a home in New York City after some time at Marine Corps camps and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where their first child was born.
Pebble raised two boys in the teeth of the complicated era that was the ’60 and ‘70s, and she did a really good job of it, perhaps helped along by her one nightly cigarette and vodka on the rocks.
Education was the love of her professional life. She taught for a little while at Spence School, but spent nearly 40 years teaching at Chapin School. She founded the audio-visual department at Chapin (even though she was perplexed by the family VCR machine), taught lower school science, led a home room for fourth graders, and generally left a positive imprint on generations of talented young women. She loved Chapin – its people and values, and all the girls she taught there over the years – and worked very hard at being the best teacher she could be. She no doubt sends a Green and Gold hug down to all her former colleagues and students and wishes the very best to every girl who ever walked in the doors on East End Avenue.
In the early ‘70s, Pebble’s friendship with Barbara Gridley led her to Norfolk, a then remote but highly civilized town in northwest Connecticut. The house on Mountain Road became home, a refuge but also a place of excitement and discovery. Norfolk was and is a place filled with what Pebble referred to as “all the best people” – she loved everyone and we know that she missed dearly her social life with the Isabellas and all the friends in town and at the Country Club.
Though too many of those friends have already left, there are many still there and we all thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the love you continued to show Pebble after she moved to Noble Horizons.
And her last community at Noble Horizons was a gift to us all. It would take too long to thank everyone there, but we are deeply grateful for the care and love and tenderness you showed Elizabeth (she finally lost that nick name when she got to Noble!). It is a wonderful, caring place.
Elizabeth was much beloved by her sons David and Nick, her daughters-in-law Ellen Bauerle and Lee Findlay Potter, her grandchildren Claire (Michael Schneider) and Natalie Potter and Arthur, Lila and Nina Potter, and most recently a great grandson Bennet Stone Potter-Schneider. We all will miss her dearly.
There is so much more to say – the pets and the sports, her resilience and humor, and the trips and the curiosity about nature and the environment. Elizabeth loved this earth and she made everything she could of her time here. We love her and miss her.
The family is planning a memory service in the Spring of 2026.
The Kenny Funeral Home has care of arrangements.
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Anne Chamberlain
Nov 19, 2025
CORNWALL — Anne Chamberlain passed peacefully at home on Nov. 7, 2025, with her family by her side. She is remembered and celebrated by her two children, Bonnie and David Rovics, their spouses John Bordage and Reiko Maeda, her four grandchildren Jacob Bordage, Leila Paravacini Rovics, Kotoha and Yutaka Maeda Rovics, and her sisters Tippi Loeb and Sue Chamberlain.
Anne grew up in Great Neck Long Island, spent many wonderful years of her younger life in NYC, and moved to Connecticut to raise a family in the 1970’s. Anne was a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and studied extensively at Julliard with Beveridge Webster. She lived in Cornwall Bridge, for close to 40 years, and served as the choir director and organist at the UCC Church, as well as a piano teacher for Simon’s Rock of Bard College. Anne moved to Boston/Jamaica Plain at the age of 80 to live in a shared home with her daughter and son-in-law. Anne rekindled her life-long connection to the Quaker community in the last few years of her life, and the community of friends was deeply present for the end of her life.
Anne was a global presence and loved learning the history of music, art, culture, past and present. She studied music and the musicians, composers and artists who created and wrote the music she loved. She traveled extensively on a minimal budget, inspired by her Aunt Betty Chamberlain. Anne spent many summers living in Hanoi, Vietnam, working on music with the Hanoi Symphony musicians, continuing well into her 70’s.
Anne’s legacy will be remembered as a musical inspiration to so many others, and a deeply devoted environmental activist who tread very gently on this earth. everloved.com/life-of/anne-chamberlain/obituary/
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Shirley J. Bronson
Nov 19, 2025
AMENIA — Shirley J. Bronson passed away, peacefully, Friday morning on Nov. 7, 2025. She was 76 years young.
She was born Oct. 4, 1949, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Rudolph and Eleanor (Cameron) Richardson.
Shirley resided in Vermont in her early years until the family moved to New York state and by 1958 Shirley was joined by four siblings, Sheila, Stuart, Steven, and Eleanor.
Shirley graduated from the Webutuck Central School systems and BOCES taking courses in secretarial and accounting, later working for Leon Rostein, Anderson Peet, Wassaic State School and the New York State and Texas State prison systems. Commuting to NYS prisons with her brother Steve and nephew Weston made the commute more enjoyable.
In 1971 Shirley married Edward Bronson of Amenia and together in 1972 became Jehovahs’ Witnesses.
In 1974 the Bronson couple welcomed a baby girl, Heather Lee. Heather came to be a great support to her mom especially after her dad was killed in a car accident (1997). The “duo” left the area and moved to Texas. Here Shirley became a good friend to the Lampasas Congregation. She came to work for the State of Texas prison system and as a Home Health Aide. Knitting, crocheting and ministry occupied most of her days. She loved dachshund dogs and Siamese cats. Her faithful kitty, “Drambuie” was there with her until the end.
Shirley is survived by her daughter, Heather and husband Jason Blackwell of Taylor, Texas; her sisters, Sheila Breen of Millerton, New York and Eleanor Campbell of Wingdale, New York, two brothers, Stuart Richardson (Cora) of New Lebanon, New York and Steven Richardson of Wassaic, New York. Also survived by brothers-in-law, Carl Bronson (Bertha) Montana and Steven. and many nieces and nephews from the Richardson and Bronson families. She was pre-deceased by Ralph Bronson.
Shirley’s faith and hope in the Resurrection and living forever on a Paradise Earth as Jehovah promises kept her going through those difficult last days.
Memorial service and reception are arranged through the Lampasas, Texas congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Cards and condolences can be sent to Heather Blackwell. 2002 Muscovy Cove, Taylor, Texas 76574.
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