Nancy Read, a Middlebury-educated native of Ilion, NY, who lived most of her life in Connecticut pursuing her passions of sailing, skiing, and community involvement, died February 5, 2013 at age 90. She was the daughter of the late E. Earl Read and Ruth (Platner) Read. She spent her final years in Tampa, not to escape the cold but to embrace the closeness of family. She never married, yet she enjoyed the gift of a strong, life-long family bond with the Wetmores: Jean, Clay, Andy, Nancy, and Paul. She was gregarious, adventurous, inventive, optimistic, confident, passionate about politics, and beyond all, the most loyal, devoted, and enduring friend. If you have been blessed to count Nancy as a friend, you understand the joy she brought. She was an only child who loved life and the people in it. She remembered her father to have said, "We have the perfect child; why would we want another?" We quite agree.
I guess it really is over. You really are gone........
P.S. I think I got the stone right. It's just like your parents' stones - raised letters, years only, font identical. It's in the right spot, and now you are too. The burial wis a funny, non-traditional event that I'm sure you would have laughed over. It involved a shovel and a convertible. I found it hard to leave. Miss you still.
I love this picture of us as we were when I was a child. Here we all are as I like to remember us from sometime in the late 1960's. This was taken in upstate New York where we lived for a few years while Nancy remained in Connecticut in her yellow house. Nancy is wearing cordoroy pants that I know she loved. Mom (Jean) is wearing a plaid wind breaker that I also remember; and Dad (Clay) looks young and fit. We kids were just beginning to understand life. Gotta love those overalls Paul.
Nancy displayed this picture in her home and kept it with her all her days. She cherished the picture of her father (in the lower right hand corner) as it was one of the few she had. Also pictured are her mother, Ruth (next to her father), and her Aunt Adah (next to Ruth).
This picture was taken before Ruth and Earl were married.
