Frances B. Savin

In North Branford, June 16, 2008, Frances B. Savin, 81, of Evergreen Woods. North Branford. Wife of the late Edmund John Duffy and Bennett Savin. Born in New York City, daughter of the late Hugo and Barbara Wolf Beyer. Survived by her daughters, Barbara Duffy Spencer and her husband William and his son Mark, Janet Luongo and her husband James and Cameron Kayce, Step-children Suzanne Savin and Greg Savin, and her grandson, David Luongo. Also survived by her cousins in Long Island, Eleanor Ferraro and her husband Lloyd and their children, Lloyd Ferraro and Karen Annunziato and cousins in Hungary, Ferenc, Pal, Mihaly and Kati Farkas and their seven children, with whom she visited in Europe and America.
Fran Savin shortened a budding modeling career to become a mother. She earned an associates degree at age 39 from Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, and then worked as a fashion illustrator and art director in NYC. In Florida, Fran Savin served as secretary of the Unitarian Universalist Church, worked in real estate, but then returned to modeling and fashion for which she had flair. Always interested in arts and culture, in Palm Beach, FL she volunteered for the Flagler Museum and the Royal Poincianna Playhouse and worked as an extra in films, notably with Angela Lansbury, and served as membership chair for the Palm Beach Motion Picture Assoc. While a resident of Evergreen Woods, she volunteered on the Art Committee and had her first one-person exhibit of her fashion drawings at Gibbs College in Norwalk, CT which was filmed and airs on public access television.
A Memorial Service will be held at the Unitarian Church in Westport, 10 Lyons Plains Road, Wesport, on July 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM. In lieu of flowers contributions in memory of Mrs. Savin may be made to CT Hospice, 100 Double Beach Rd, Branford, CT 06405. Arrangements in care of the Guilford Funeral Home, 115 Church St., Guilford, CT 06437 www.GuilfordFuneralHome.com