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Memorial for Edith Bristol
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio on Jun. 13, 1917
Departed on May 15, 2013 and resided in Goffstown, NH.
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Saturday, Jun. 22, 2013
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GOFFSTOWN - Edith "Tink" Bristol died peacefully at home on May 15, 2013, one month short of her 96th birthday.
She was born June 13, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Anne (Holston) and Charles Macomber Rice.
She attended Cleveland schools and graduated in 1938 from the University of Vermont, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She was married to Robert Clark Bristol on Aug. 14, 1939. She and Bob attended UVM reunions for most of their 58 years together.
They lived on a farm in Montpelier, Vt., where their two oldest children were born and attended a one-room schoolhouse, and then moved to Burlington, Vt., where the last two children were born. In 1954, they moved to Goffstown, where they lived for the next 54 years. Edith was active in the Mothers Club, Congregational church, PTA and community service. She was an independent woman, strong as an oak, yet gentle as a willow when it came to flowers, birds, cats and dogs.
The Bristol home always had an open door for friends of the Bristol clan, a bridge game, learning to drive, making maple sugar candy, ice skating together at the local rink and lively discussions at the dinner table. "Tink" was a sharp bridge player who loved the game and played from college age into her 90s along with her partners. Summers on Lake Champlain for 65 years, and annual family reunions there, were a magnificent highlight to her children's years growing up in New England. The summers drew the extended family close and, four and five generations later, 75-strong, they still gather yearly.
Edith was preceded in death by her husband in 1998 and is survived by three sons, Frederick (Barbara) of Burlington, vt., James of Cambridge, Mass., and John (Susan) of Canton, Mass., and a daughter, Janice Ewing of Salt Lake City, Utah.
She also leaves nine grandchildren, Michael (Michelle), David (Marta), Kristopher (Cassandra), Brandon (Kimberly), Benjamin and Jeremy Bristol, Kimberly (Matthew) Hodgson, Eric Ewing and Lisa (Jon) Bevins, and 13 great-grandchildren.
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services: A celebration of Edith's life will be held at the Goffstown Congregational Church on Saturday, June 22, at 11 a.m. A reception will follow the service.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Congregational church or the Goffstown Humane Society.
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