Lois Moulton

Lois V. Moulton

1918-2013 BARRE CITY Lois Virginia Whitmore Moulton, 95, died Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at Lincoln House in Barre, Vermont. She was born on July 6, 1918 to Charles F. and Sara (Steans) Whitmore in Upper Montvale, New Jersey, but grew up in Mifflinburg and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and graduated from Lewisburg High School in 1935. She attended Maryville College in Tennessee and then the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, graduating in 1941 as a Registered Nurse. She married William Monroe Moulton on March 27, 1943. During their married life they lived in six states and several countries including Mexico, Turkey, and Lebanon. They divorced in 1967. In 1966, she moved to Brattleboro, Vermont where she remained until recent years. While in Brattleboro she returned to nursing and worked for about twenty years at the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and the Brattleboro Retreat. Starting in the 1930's, she continued a life-long love of listening to the Metropolitan Opera Saturday afternoon live broadcasts. She also pursued a late-blooming interest in photography and was active in the Brattleboro Camera Club for several decades. Some of her photos were published by Vermont Life. She leaves behind five children, William Moulton and his wife Kathie, in Plainfield, VT; Lawrence Moulton and his wife Margaret, in Lopez Island, WA and their two sons Eric and Craig; Robert Moulton and his wife Rebecca in Ashuelot, NH; Allen Moulton and his wife Marcie in Johnson, VT, and his ex-wife Carla Van Hoy and son Nathan; and Sara Moulton and her husband David Tanner in Montpelier, VT. There will be no calling hours. A private graveside service will be held in the Spring at the convenience of the family at Hope Cemetery in Barre. Memorial contributions may be made to Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301. Arrangements are in the care of the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home, 58 Summer St., Barre, VT.