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Frances Cowenhoven Obituary
She was born Oct. 22, 1921, in Boston, a daughter of Frank M. and Margaret S. Sawtell. She grew up in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline, Mass.
She graduated from Beaver Country Day School and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1943.
After graduation, she lived in New York City, where she worked for a market research firm. During World War II, she worked in a research department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She married Nicholas R. Cowenhoven at Chestnut Hill in 1946. The couple settled in New Brunswick, N.J., later moving to Grafton, Mass.
As her children grew up, she began a teaching career, working at Shepherd Knapp School, a private K-9 school, in Boylston, Mass. through most of the 1960s. During the 1970s, she worked for two alternative schools in Worcester, Mass., the Elm Park Center and the Worcester New School.
In the many years they lived in Grafton, she and her husband were actively involved with the Grafton Unitarian Church. For most of her life she was an active member of a lake association in Maine, the Mountainy Pond Club, serving a term as president.
In retirement, they moved to York, Maine, where she was an active volunteer at York Hospital and the York Public Library, and then to Thornton Oaks, a retirement community in Brunswick.
She was predeceased in September, 2007, by her husband of 60 years, Nicholas R. Cowenhoven.
She leaves four children, Nicholas (Jr.) and Anne Cowenhoven of York, Margaret S. Cowenhoven of Wayland, Mass., Andrew and Liza Cowenhoven of Concord, N.H., and Emily C. and Richard Searle of Newburyport, Mass.; a sister, Katherine S. Plimpton of Sherborn, Mass.; six grandchildren, many nephews and nieces.
Funeral arrangements are by Stetson's Funeral Home, 12 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine 04011 and will be announced at a later date at the funeral home website
stetsonsfuneralhome.com
Memorial condolences may also be expressed at
stetsonsfuneralhome.com
Donations in her memory may be made to the New England Forestry Foundation, P.O Box 1346, Littleton, Mass. 01460.
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