Gretchen Wheelock Mann Orme

1931 - 2024

Gretchen Wheelock Mann Orme

Peterborough, NH - Gretchen Wheelock Mann Orme died on July 27. She was 92 years old.

Gretchen was born on December 29,1931 in Newton, MA, a daughter to the late John Fischer and Margaret "Peg" Lane Wheelock. She grew up in the Auburndale section of Newton and graduated from Newton High School. She attended Wheaton College in Norwood, Massachusetts.

Gretchen has been a resident of Peterborough since 1957. She was a volunteer at Monadnock Community Hospital, Red Cross blood drives, and the Serendipity Shop for many years. She was a cub scout, brownie and girl scout troop leader, which she loved. She enjoyed tennis, golf, swimming, skiing and ice skating, loved to dance, and was one of the founding members of the Sugar Mama's Field Hockey Team.

Gretchen is predeceased by her husband's Arthur F. Mann, to whom she was married for 33 years, and William C. Orme, to whom she was married for 29 years, and her sisters Priscilla Ingalls and Carol Davis Melinn

Gretchen leaves her children: Chip Mann and his wife Maureen, of Franklin, Tennessee, and their children, Morgan and her husband Scot, Jeff, and Colby; Dana Mann of Peterborough; and Betsey Mann and her husband Steven Parker, of West Fork, Arkansas, her children Kate and Ben and his wife Chelsea, and a great granddaughter Sofia.

Private family service will be held, per Gretchen's request.

At her suggestion, contributions in her name may be made to the Monadnock Community Hospital or Wheaton College scholarship fund.