Susan Channing "Susie" Page

Susan Channing Page of Hilton Head, SC died peacefully at home on October 15, 2025, at age 103 after a full life filled with family and friends.
Admired for her positive energy and loving spirit, she went from the relative shelter of her New England upbringing to the tumult of World War II when she married John Hall Page in 1942. She raised one small child and carried another as her husband saw action in the Pacific as a junior officer in the U.S. Navy. After the war, they had two more children, raising the four of them in Gates Mills, Ohio; Lloyd Harbor, NY; Des Moines, IA and Seattle, Washington.
Born in Boston, MA on June 12, 1922, to Julia Lyman and Henry Gouveneur Simonds, Susie was the second oldest of six children, growing up in Brookline and Cohasset, MA. She graduated from the Winsor School, where, by her account, she was more of an athlete than a scholar.
She had a lifelong love of the outdoors. She was an experienced sailor, a reluctant skier, an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic golfer. She shot her age when she was 93. Raising her family, she volunteered at her children's schools and was often heard yelling encouragement from the sidelines.
She was active in the Multiple Sclerosis Society in Huntington, NY as well as her local Garden Club. She loved her flower and vegetable gardens and always had lovely fresh flowers, dogwood blossoms and pretty weeds in vases around the house. She volunteered also at the Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) clinic on Hilton Head Island, on Northridge Drive.
She was an accomplished birder and would participate in the annual Audubon Christmas bird count. She was particularly pleased to have hosted a pair of bluebirds in the yard of her Hilton Head Island house... the birds lured there by live mail-order mealworms.
She was a very good card player and when playing cards with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she occasionally threw a game (without obviously doing so) to help them believe, at least for a moment, that they were clever. She attended Episcopal churches wherever she was, spending the most time as a member of the congregation at St. John's Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Her husband John died in 1990. She leaves behind a sister, Amy Naimi; a sister in law, Lee Simonds; four children: Susie Trotman (Stanley), John Page (Leslie), Julia Page (Pat Ford), Robert Page (Jessica); six grandchildren: Julia Trotman (John Hommeyer), Nick Trotman (Abi, deceased), John Page (Andrea), Ginger Roddy (Hugh), Andrew Page (Shannon), Sarah Page (Sydney) and 14 great grandchildren: Lila, Claire, Ava, Rose, Mac, Channing, Vivian, Julia, Samantha, Huey, Ella, Ollie, Augusta and Michael.
A celebration of life will be held at 11 AM Eastern time at St.
John's Church, Cold Spring Harbor, NY on Saturday, November 22, 2025.
The Zoom link to the service is https://tinyurl.com/47avejpe
Password is "funeral"
In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to
Winsor School, 103 Pilgrim Rd, Boston, MA 02215 or to
Crescent Hospice at 10 Buckingham Plantation Dr, Bluffton, SC 29910.