Edith M. Kimball

65, of Longwood Ave, Brookline, MA, formerly of Pomfret, died Friday at the Brookline Health Care Center. She was born October 3, 1942 in Putnam, CT, daughter of the late Arthur and Mabel (Mason) Kimball. Edith was an Acquisitions Librarian at the Countway Library at The Harvard Medical School in Boston, for over thirty years. She had made her home in the Boston area for the last 40 years, she spent her youth in Pomfret, CT. She was a graduate of Putnam High School and received a Bachelor's Degree in Lecture and Education and later received her Master's Degree in Library Science, all from Simmons College. Edith enjoyed traveling the US and Europe. She had a great love of nature and birds, over the years she supported many environmental causes and societies. She leaves a sister-in-law Luranelle Kimball of Dayville; nieces and nephews: William; Harold; Peter; Gwendolyn; Barry; Ruth; Robert; Kathy and their families; several cousins, her very close friends: Miriam Alleman of Boston; Lois McMullen of Newton, MA. She was predeceased by her sisters: Grace Chesters; Lillian Eck; brother: Walter Kimball and a nephew: Fred Chesters. A Memorial Service will be held July 20, (Sunday) at the Smith & Walker Funeral Home, 148 Grove St., PUTNAM, CT at 2 PM. Private Burial will be in North Cemetery, Hampton. Donations may be made in her memory to the CT Audubon Society at Pomfret, P.O. Box 11, Pomfret Center, CT 06259. To share a memory with her family, "Light a Candle" at www.smithandwalkerfh.com.