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Alexandra Corwin Obituary
Etna, NH - Alexandra Louise Lihatsh Hickson Corwin, 83, died at the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care on 1/8/2026 from complications of pneumonia. She had been a volunteer at the Jack Byrne Center, using her beautiful calligraphy to address sympathy card envelopes, so it felt welcome and appropriate that she could spend her final days there.
Alexandra was born in Lebanon, NH, to Peter and Helen (Courtis) Lihatsh. She grew up in Etna, NH, and moved back many years later to live in the old family home. A graduate of Hanover High School, class of 1960, she went on to the Rhode Island School of Design for a BFA in textile design and taught weaving in Shelburne, VT. She later earned her RN degree, and she worked as a psychiatric nurse on the night shift at Dartmouth Hitchcock for 20 years.
Alexandra was passionate about peace, poetry, interfaith spirituality, hot air balloons, and Leon Russell. She loved dining out with friends and the Red Hat Society, and building community at church potlucks and parties. Alexandra traveled to the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cancun (pictured), and El Salvador, and she took more than one cross-country roadtrip. We will deeply miss her kindness, humor, and creativity.
Alexandra is survived by her siblings, Pat Mushlin and Peter Lihatsh; her son, Ben Hickson, and daughter-in-law, Katyana Hickson; her daughter, Dorothy Hickson; and her first husband, Jerry Hickson Jr., with whom she stayed friends to the end.
A memorial celebration will be held at the Etna Church's Trumbull Hall later this spring. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to the Jack Byrne Center or the Upper Valley Land Trust. Alexandra cherished the natural beauty of New England and loved hearing Mink Brook from her bedroom windows.
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Susan Carver
February 15, 2026
Alexandra was a dear friend and an amazing person. She volunteered her skills (which were many) to many organizations and shared many artistic talents with those around her. She loved puzzles and was a remarkable Sunday Valley News crossword puzzle solver. I will miss breakfast and lunch dates with her. She was a lovely woman.
Bonnie- Lee Lopez
January 14, 2026
I worked with her for many years on the psychiatric unit at DHMC and we kept in touch all these years later. She was a person of many talents and such an interesting woman who turned her struggles into strengths. Prayers to her family.Im sad we won´t get to have that lunch date.
Kevin & Anne Peterson
January 13, 2026
Thank you for always reminding us why (metropolitan downtown) Etna is such a special place.
Cyndi Lihatsh
January 13, 2026
Pat, Peter, Ben, Kat, Dorothy and the rest of the family, my sincere condolences on the passing of Alexandra. Memory Eternal.
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Jennifer (Poulson) Amin
January 13, 2026
Alexandra was a dear friend of my dad, Donald Poulson, until he passed. I still have some of her framed calligraphy that she gifted to him and will always cherish it. She was a wonderful friend, and an incredibly talented & empathetic person. My deepest condolences to her family. She will be missed!
Lori Fortini
January 13, 2026
Alexandra was a loved member of our poetry group "Food for Your Soul: Reading Poetry Together" that met on zoom through the Aging Resource Center.
She often shared her poetry which we all enjoyed. We also had a good-natured running joust about whether poems had to rhyme. She was clearly in the rhyming camp, calling non-rhyming free verse just chopped up prose!
She was slowly coming around to appreciate Mary Oliver and others through our group. I looked forward to continuing to try to bring her around!
We will miss her humor, her intellect, and her irascibility.
She was strong in her faith and it brings me comfort to know that she will bring her wonderful poetrty and humor to heaven.
With deep sympathy and love, lori fortini
Tom Sabo
January 13, 2026
All the best to the family and friends. She sounds like she was a wonderful person and will be missed by all who knew her.
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