Contoocook, NH

Priscilla Bohanan, longtime resident of Contoocook, passed away peacefully at the Pleasant View Nursing Home on Friday January 27, 2012 at the age of 97 and in the company of family.

She was born Priscilla Thankful Pleadwell in Wollaston MA on December 8, 1914. The third (and last surviving member) of a family of 6 children, she grew up in greater Boston and summered in Ellisville MA on longtime family property -- an idyllic cottage positioned on a bluff high above Buzzards Bay.

Following high school graduation Priscilla worked in Boston for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. In 1938 she married Ivan Bohanan and moved to the Bohanan Farm in Contoocook NH. Adapting well to country living, she was up with the sun to tend her extensive vegetable and flower gardens. The gardens were meant for sharing; it was simply not possible to leave Priscilla’s home without a few ears of corn, or a couple of tomatoes, or some small plant in a clump of dirt in a paper bag.

Quiet contributions to charity were integral to her day-to-day life. Priscilla frequently donated perennial garden plants to local fund raising causes. She was also involved in the production of over 1000 ABC quilts.

Apart from her much admired farm gardens, Priscilla worked at local greenhouses and ran Ginger & Pickles, a mail order business of Tasha Tudor’s products.

Priscilla was a longtime member of the First Congregational Church of Hopkinton, and of the Hopkinton Antiquarian Society. She is predeceased by her husband of 67 years and leaves a daughter, Joline Kimball of Webster, son Glenn and daughter-in-law Adelemarie of Contoocook, and son Craig and daughter-in-law Santina LaCava also of Contoocook.   She also leaves 13 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren. 
 
There will be no formal funeral service, but a family ceremony celebrating Priscilla’s life will be held this Spring.

The Holt-Woodbury Funeral Home & Cremation Service is assisting the family.

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