HARRIET PARMENTER DAVIS

DAVIS, Harriet Parmenter Harriet P. Davis, 81 of Wenham, died on Saturday, April 15 at Kaplan Family Hospice House. Born in Ipswich, she was the daughter of Charles William and Marjorie Alice (Parmenter) Davis, and was a lifelong resident of Wenham and Cambridge. She attended Shore Country Day School and was a graduate of Northfield (now Northfield-Mount Hermon), Wheaton College, Boston University, and Simmons College. Harriet went on to join Merill Lynch as a broker where she worked for 35 years attaining the rank of Vice President. For over 100 years, her maternal family of Dodges and Princes had long served the town of Wenham on many boards and commissions, and she continued that tradition on the Finance and Advisory, Community Preservation, Historic District, Conservation, and Cemetery Boards and followed both parents (Charles 1951-1959) and Marjorie (1972-1989) onto the Board of Selectmen in 2010 giving them total of 10 terms there. Harriet had been a Trustee of the Cambridge YMCA, Treasurer of Wheaton College class, Treasurer of Christ Church of Hamilton-Wenham, Director of the Boston Branch of the English-Speaking Union and President of the Wenham Village Improvement Society. She was a member of Myopia Hunt Club and enjoyed gardening, her Persian cats, and traveling abroad, fulfilling, in 2022, a lifelong desire to spend a Dickensian Christmas in London with her family. She is survived by her brother, Charles Edwin and his wife Mary of Wenham; her nephew, Charles Alexander and his wife, Rachel; her great nephew, Teddy of Toronto; and cousin, Elaine Clark of Jacksonville. A Celebration of Life for Harriet will be at Christ Church, 149 Asbury Street, South Hamilton, on Tuesday, May 23, at 11:00 A.M. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Following the Service there will be a reception to share memories and refreshments, the details of which are being worked out. Contributions may be made in Harriet's memory to the Louis Dodge Fund at the Wenham Museum, 132 Main Street, Wenham. Arrangements by the Campbell Funeral Home, 525 Cabot Street, Beverly. Information, directions, condolences at www.campbellfuneral.com www.campbellfuneral.com