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Author: Lace_Lynch
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RYE, NH: Elizabeth C. Menson, PhD, 91, died Thursday, December 2, 2010 at Webster of Rye
following a brief period of failing health.
She was born in New York, N.Y. April 15, 1919 and was the daughter of the late John T. and
Elizabeth (McSorley) Carroll.
She was a graduate of Columbia University in New York and later at age 59 received her PhD
in Counseling and Higher Education from Ohio University in Athens, OHIO.
Dr. Menson served as Director of Student Services at the Lancaster, Ohio Campus of Ohio
University and Director of Lifelong Learning at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
She first came to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area with her family in 1920 when her
father was hired to build the old Portsmouth Shipyard. They lived in a number of houses
before her father built a summer house named "Our Anchorage" on the shore
overlooking the Isle of Shoals.
She was a summer resident of Rye for many years.
In 1991 she and her husband, John L. Menson, retired to "Our Anchorage" in Rye.
She served on the Rye Zoning Board of Adjustment, was an elder and an active member of
Bethany Church in Greenland, a friend of the Rye Public Library, and a volunteer with
Fuller Garden.
She shared 57 years of marriage with her husband, John L. Menson, who died in 1996; her
son, Thomas P. Menson; her grandson, Michael P. Edwards; and her brother, Edward T.
Carroll, also predeceased her.
Although she remained very involved with civic and professional activities, she also
continued to nurture a large family. They gathered often with her at "Our
Anchorage". As she said in a Rye Reflections interview in 2009 "I feel just
standing at my window and looking out at the ocean every single day of my life brings
peace to my soul. I am so thankful for my mother's and father's decision to build
this house for my family to love as they do and to help us keep the family feeling and to
care for each other."
Family members include, four sons, John L. Menson, II and his wife, Sharene of Clinton,
MT, Robert C. Menson and his wife, Margo Waite of Newport, RI, Richard L. Menson and his
wife, Lynne of Dunwoody, GA, James S. Menson and his wife, Joanne of Lawrenceville, GA;
two daughters, Elizabeth A. McKinstry and her husband, Blaine of Palmdale, CA, Susan M.
Edwards and her husband, Burt of Ada, MI; a daughter-in-law, Molly Dillon of South
Burlington, VT; 14 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to call Friday, December 10th from 6 to 8
p.m. at the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home, 811 Lafayette Road, Hampton. Services will
be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in Bethany Church, 500 Breakfast Hill Road, Greenland.
If desired, donations may be made to the Rye Public Library, 581 Washington Road, Rye, NH
03870 or to Ohio University Lancaster - Betty Menson Scholarship Fund, 1570 Granville
Pike, Lancaster, Ohio 43130.
Please visit
www.RemickGendron.com for directions and online guestbook.
Published in the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Lancaster, Ohio on December 7, 2010
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