Sarah Gannon Weston

Sarah Elizabeth Gannon-Weston passed peacefully surrounded by family on December 11, 2025 following an extended illness in hospice at home care and subsequent care at the Hyder Family Hospice home in Dover, NH.

She was born April 17, 1961 in Austin, Texas to a Southern gal, Mary Elizabeth Seals, and a Northern boy, William S. Gannon. They moved to New Hampshire when she was 18 months old, settling in Peterborough under the majesty of Mount Monadnock, which Sarah could not pronounce, so she deemed it Mount Eggnog. Sarah was soon joined by two sisters, Rebecca and Hannah, and the family moved around New England and New York following her father's career in education and ministry.

Sarah graduated from the Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut in 1979. There she met her roommate's brother, the man whom she would marry twenty years later. In college she majored in painting, printmaking and sculpture, studying at Cal Poly in Pomona, California and in Boston at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Sarah followed these interests throughout her life. She was proud of merging many mediums into multi-media works featuring painting, textiles, printmaking, poetry and altered art-books.

In January 1996, at sea somewhere north of Puerto Rico, Sarah married her longtime friend Larry on board the Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise. The Captain officiated the ceremony on the ship's bridge accompanied by bluesman Taj Mahal's band playing gentle Hawaiian melodies. The wedding kiss was announced by a blast of the ship's horn. The couple considered the cruise to be their personal week-long catered wedding party with 750 new friends and ten blues bands. Later in the summer, Larry's mother Guli hosted a wonderful outdoor wedding celebration in Danville for family and friends.

Sarah and Larry spent their first years together in Maynard, Massachusetts, with daughter Molly making her appearance in 1998. In 2007 the family moved to Larry's hometown of Danville, New Hampshire. Her professional life was dedicated to Connie Hershey, her friend and employer of thirty plus years.

Music was a life-long love of Sarah's, particularly the Blues, Ska, Punk and Alternative scene of Boston, Kenmore Square and Cambridge in the1980's where she had the time of her life. She carried the grace and rhythm that made her a great dancer. Music was always integral to her life and artwork and her interests never stopped expanding.

Justice and Civil Rights were a life-long passion for Sarah. Her first role models were her parents who were very active in the Civil Rights movements of the 1950's and 1960's. She was an active campaigner for voter registration and canvassed for local, statewide and national candidates who advocated for peace, marriage equality and the rule of law. To Sarah, it was easy, fair is fair.

Sarah won three consecutive terms of office, serving nine years as a Library Trustee in her adopted hometown of Danville. An ever vigilant and staunch defender of the Library's operations, the Danville Library Trustees efforts have earned statewide recognition.

She had the good fortune to see the USA, once riding from New Hampshire to California on the back of a motorcycle, and a bit of the world as well, traveling to Africa, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Mexico. Home was ultimately her happy place, either perched on her favorite chair on the porch, in the kitchen cooking for the family, or tending to her flower and herb gardens.

Sarah is survived by her dear husband Larry and her dear daughter Molly; her parents Bill Gannon, step-mother Barbara, and mother Mary Elizabeth Seals; her sister Rebecca and her husband Mel, and their children Lou, Ivy and Sawyer; her sister Hannah and her children Kait, Ben and Maddy; Sarah's brother, Steve Guthrie and his wife Angela; her sister-in-law Meg Wilson and her husband Jeff, and their sons Jared and Mark; and, finally, her furbabies Pete, Pimmy and Don Ho. Sarah was predeceased by her beloved step-father Hal Mortimer, and along lifetime of cats and German Shepherd dogs (all but one were gently-used rescues). Most recently were dear dear Wolfie, Maggie, Nikki, Emma, Henry, Copper, Jenny and Suki. Beloved, all.

In lieu of flowers, Sarah asks that you consider donations to the Colby Memorial Library in Danville, New Hampshire, to the Mercy Street program at the First Baptist Church, Plaistow, NH, or to the New Hampshire SPCA in Stratham, NH.

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