Dorothy Lingard Chilson

Mrs. Dorothy Lingard Chilson died on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at the Life Care Center of Attleboro. She was 91. She married Robert Fisher Chilson in 1940. They were married for sixty years before his death in 2000.

Born in Attleboro in 1915, she was the daughter of the late William Ellerton Lingard and Minnie Bray Lingard. Mrs. Chilson, a lifelong resident of Attleboro, graduated from Attleboro High School in 1933 and from Pembroke College of Brown University in 1937. She completed a post-graduate intensive business course at Bryant College.

Mrs. Chilson had been very active in both civic and church affairs. She was a member of the New Century Club and served for many years on the Board of Directors of the Florence Hayward Sweet Clubhouse. She was a charter member of the Attleboro Gardeners and belonged to the Second Congregational Church of Attleboro.

Mrs. Chilson leaves two sons: Robert Lingard Chilson and his wife Marie Davis Chilson of Northfield, VT and Jonathan Lingard Chilson and his wife Linda Eberhardt Chilson of Mansfield. She is also survived by four grandchildren: Kate Elisabeth Chilson of Watertown, Christina Anne Chilson of Mansfield, Jennifer Leigh Chilson of Mansfield, and Douglas Robert Chilson of Northfield, VT. Nieces and nephews are: Sheridan Goddard Walter of Mifflinburg, PA, William Goddard of Cogan Station, PA, Susan Palmer Gaunt of Providence, RI, Franklin Palmer of Osprey, FL, Peter Chilson of Bourne, and Paul Chilson of East Sandwich.

Mrs. Chilson was predeceased by her sisters Mildred S. Goddard and Barbara E. Palmer.

Visitation has been respectfully omitted.

Graveside services at Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro will be private.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Endowment Fund of the Attleboro YMCA, 63 North Main Street, Attleboro, MA 02703. To send the family a written expression of sympathy, please visit the on-line register book located on the internet at www.dyer-lakefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, 161 Commonwealth Avenue, Village of Attleboro Falls, North Attleboro. (508) 695-0200.