Priscilla Mary "Pat" Coutermarsh

1923 - 2024

Priscilla "Pat" Mary Coutermarsh

West Topsham, VT - Priscilla "Pat" Coutermarsh, 100, died Monday March 11, 2024, at the Valley View Home in Bradford.

She was born December 21, 1923, in Woodstock, VT, to Victor and Lucia (Marsh) Dupuis. She grew up on the Sunny Brae Farm in Pomfret where she attended the Cloudland School until the fourth grade before moving to Woodstock schools, graduating from Woodstock High School in 1941. After high school she attended Northampton Commercial College before beginning her career as an executive secretary. During the war she worked for the US Army Ordinance Department and then at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in White River Jct. She later worked at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover and then at St. Anthony Church until retiring. In her retirement Pat enjoyed working at the Quechee Gorge Information Booth.

Pat was married to Omer E. Coutermarsh on July 19, 1952, in Woodstock, VT. They lived in White River Jct. for a time and then began a family while living in Dewey's Mills area of Quechee until their home was taken by the creation of the North Hartland Dam flood plain. They purchased a home on the North Hartland Road in 1959 where they spent the rest of their married lives. Mr. Coutermarsh died in 1995. Pat moved to West Topsham in 2000 where she lived until very recently moving to Valley View. She suffered a house fire in 2009 and rebuilt her home in the same spot.

Pat was very spiritual and a devout member of the Catholic Church. While at St. Anthony's she sang in the choir and was a member of the Living Spirit Prayer Group. She traveled to several charismatic conferences including some in New Orleans and Kansas City as well as working at the Edmonite Missions in Selma, Mississippi for several years.

She was predeceased by her husband, Omer; siblings, Hamelin, Bernard, Henri and Martha Dupuis, Madeliene Gosselin and Regis Crocher as well as three siblings who died in infancy.

She is survived by her daughters, Patricia Coutermarsh (Chris Smith) of Whitefield, NH, and Anne Adams (Mark) of Randolph, VT; sons Andrew Coutermarsh (Pat) of Spring Hill, FL, John Coutermarsh of Wells River, VT, and Matthew Coutermarsh (Randi) of White River Jct.; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, several nieces, nephews, and step grandchildren.

A visitation will be held at the Knight Funeral Home in White River Jct. on Saturday March 16th from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. A Mass of Christian Burial will follow at Noon at St. Anthony Church with burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Condolences to Pat's family may be made in an online guestbook at knightfuneralhomes.com