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Constance Ramsey Obituary
Constance Maria (Fletcher) Ramsey: February 27, 1924 – February 17, 2021
One of five girls, Constance was born in Philadelphia and raised by Pearl Brown Fletcher and Chester G. Fletcher. She graduated from West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Girls, completed University of Pensylvania's personnel administration and Industrial Relations program at the Wharton School and Albertus Magnus College after she moved to New Haven, CT. in 1958.
She was a lifelong learner. She developed an interest in metals and became a professional jeweler custom designing wedding bands, rings, earrings and pendants, which she sold and exhibited at juried shows.
A dedicated community and social activist, Constance worked with many local and national organizations including: the NAACP Freedom Fund Drive, the Urban League, Another Mother for Peace, Biafra Relief, Literacy Volunteers and the March of Dimes. She also participated in peace marches in Washington, D.C. and New York City protesting the Vietnam War. As an active member of the Free South Africa Coalition working to end apartheid she was most proud of the fact that she got arrested on the New Haven Green.
Constance also served on many boards including the New Haven YWCA, the Women's Auxiliary of Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Shubert Theatre of the Performing Arts (New Haven) and Yale's Transitional Year Program for underprivileged students. Later in life she became a gifted writer of poems and essays.
Constance moved back to Philadelphia in 1997, and then to Seattle in 2002 after the death of her husband the Honorable William B. Ramsey III. She leaves behind her sister Bette Corbin, three daughters (Paula Lewis, Robyn and Melanie Ramsey), three grandchildren (Winter Henderson, Sydney and Cooper Woolston), two great-grandchildren (Henry and Eloise Henderson), her caregiver Ruby Phillips as well as many nieces, nephews and friends.
She will be laid to rest at Ivy Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia next to her husband. Memorial celebrations will be held in Philadelphia and Seattle once it is again safe to gather.
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Nancy Liebermann
March 11, 2021
I met Connie some 30 years ago and loved her ever since. She was so special and I enjoyed our friendship and her wisdom and care even when they moved away from New Haven. What a special woman she was!
May she rest in peace and her memory be a blessing to all who knew her.
Dana McCoy Adams
March 9, 2021
I have many wonderful childhood memories of time spent at 115 Everit St.
When I think of your mom, I remember a kind, loving, beautiful woman. What a long, full life she had! She will surely be missed.
Elaine Winfield-Ramsey
March 8, 2021
Aunt Connie was such a beautiful person inside and out. I'll always remember meeting Aunt Connie for the first time. She welcomed me into the family with loving and open arms. She was such an incredibly strong, kind, loving and caring person. May you rest in peace eternally Aunt Connie. I love you.
Judith Raunig-Graham
March 8, 2021
MEMORIES OF ALL THE WONDERFUL TIMES Constance and I shared over the course of our friendship these last 12 or 13 years keep coming back to remind me how fortunate we were to have met. She will be much missed (and was during the Coronavirus) and my heart goes out to her daughters and grandchildren. Thoughts of all the special times, shared dinners and lunches and happy hours, working on her book, birthday parties and a baby shower, outings to SAM, or a movie, and many, many discussions on politics and religion, and even clothes, will always bring smiles. Those of us who recognized what a special person Constance was, knew we were truly fortunate.
Cousin G.Diane Beavers Lewis
March 7, 2021
I met constance and her husband back in 1992 when they both attended my mother’s (Geraldine Brown Beavers Goldthwaite) law school graduation banquet in Washington ,D.C. i had heard so much about them and her relationship to my granddaddy Lennie. I was so pleased to have met them and introduced them to the rest of Brown and Beavers families.
Rev.Joseph Duke McAlpine
March 6, 2021
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.
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