Age 99, passed away on April 5, 2018, at her home in St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, Minnesota. Born almost one hundred years ago on June 18, 1918, in Springfield, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Thomas Stevenson Dillon and Marian Storm Dillon. She spent an idyllic childhood in Brookfield and her schooldays in Athol, Massachusetts. She went to Kimball Union Academy and went to the University of New Hampshire and earned a degree in psychiatric social work. After a short courtship, she married Lincoln L. Redshaw of Lynn, Massachusetts in 1942. They made their home in the seacoast town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, where they raised their sons and restored a 1760s "saltbox" house. In the early 1950s she and her husband lived a year in London, England. In the late 1960s they lived a while in Krefeld, Germany. She moved with her husband to Decatur, Illinois, where she served in the Symphony Guild and oversaw the restoration of the Oglesby Mansion. They retired to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where they restored a Federal House in the Strawberry Banke historic district. Well known for her expert knowledge of American antiques, she was equally well known for her smart tongue, her fondness for Old Fashioneds, and her wry sense of American life. Her twin sisters Harriet and Eleanor and her beloved husband Lincoln passed on before her. Her two sons Thomas, of St. Paul, and Frederick, of Baxter, and her granddaughter Tonya Elizabeth Redshaw, of Minneapolis, survive her. She will be sorely missed by all whom she loved and befriended in this life.

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Published by Pioneer Press on Apr. 8, 2018.

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