.           Remarkable Woman and Community Activist

Warner, NH Dateline

Edna Chappell (Shep) Bartlett died peacefully in Warner, on February 21, 2009, her 90th year, surrounded by her loving children and supported by extended family and many friends.  Shep was born in 1919 in Middletown New York.  She graduated from Stoneleigh College and married Lee Bartlett in 1940.   Shep and Lee, with their six children, moved to Warner, NH in 1957.  Shep was actively involved in Warner’s Fall Foliage Festival for more than four decades, as well as many other community activities. She was an original member of the Kearsarge Regional School Board and volunteered for many years in the Pillsbury Free Library and the Warner Historical Society. She and Lee were especially supportive of the school projects and sports in which all their children were involved.

A strong willed and open hearted woman of firm beliefs and opinions, she was generous and extraordinarily welcoming to all who entered her home.  With Lee, her husband of 47 years, they raised six devoted and independent children in whom they instilled the values of family and individual worth, humor and love.  Their home was always open to their many friends along with those of their children and grandchildren, who they treated as their own.  In later years, Shep was known as “Grammy” to all the younger generations.  She was predeceased by her husband Lee and her eldest son-in-law Andrew Gordon. She is survived by her six children, and their families: Katherine Gordon, Sandra Wrightson and her husband Francis Wrightson; Joan Warren and her husband Scott Warren, Jeffrey Bartlett and his wife Geri Bartlett, Susan Bartlett and her husband Philip Stockwell, Betsy Bartlett and her husband Edward Moscaritolo.  Shep also leaves eleven grandchildren: Amanda Gordon Pullin, Jennifer Gordon Palmer, Marcia Wrightson Webb, Douglas Tylor Wrightson, Christopher Scott Warren, Dana Richard Warren, Edward Lee Bartlett, David Fancher Bartlett, Bryant Lee Stockwell, Kirstyn Elizabeth Stockwell, Rianna Bartlett Moscaritolo and five great grandchildren, who all will cherish her memory and honor her legacy.

A memorial service will be at the United Church of Warner on Saturday February 28th at 3:00 PM, with a reception to follow.  Memorial donations may be made to the Pillsbury Free Library, Warner, NH, or to the Warner Historical Society.

Burial will be in the spring at Willow Dell Cemetery in Cornwall, New York.

The Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home & Cremation Service Henniker, NH is in charge of arrangements. For more information log on to www.holtwoodburyfh.com

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