Antoinette Vander May

EASTHAM - Antoinette Vander May, beloved wife of the late Richard J. Vander May, died on Thursday, September 13, 2007, at Pleasant Bay Nursing Home.

She was born January 13, 1915, in Patterson, N.J.

Antoinette graduated from Central High School, in Patterson, in June 1933, and married on August 20, 1938.

While in New Jersey, she worked in a music store and was church organist at the Second Reformed Church in Little Falls.

She moved to Eastham in 1952, with her husband and children, and opened Whispering Pines Village Cottage Colony in the spring of 1953.

In 1970, she and her husband opened the Eastham Travel Agency.

She was a wonderful cook and loved to entertain. She enjoyed traveling and was an avid reader. When she was younger, she always had a knitting or handiwork project going and she loved to play the organ and piano.

She is survived by her children, Linda Lea, and her husband, Peter, of Fernandina Beach, Fla; Richard, and his wife, Mary, of Sapphire, N.C.; Judith Vander May of Eastham, and their bulldog, Scarlett.

She is predeceased by a grandson who relocated to the Cape to be with her for four months after the death of her husband in 1997; she loved him for that act of kindness.

She also leaves four living grandchildren, two and three quarters great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews, and her loving friends, Mary and Edward Bolton, Connie Terhune, and Ann Peters.

There are no calling hours. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 27, at 11 o'clock at the Federated Church of Orleans. Internment and a party to celebrate her life will follow.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to EDMC Educational Foundation, PO Box 15213, Portland, ME, 04112 to the Eric J. Vander May Scholarship. This scholarship supports a photography or culinary arts student each year at the Art Institute of Colorado, in Denver.