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Touches our Community</SPAN></P>
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of the long-time stalwart members of our congregation, <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Caroline Putnam</B> died at home today
Saturday Nov. 12, 2016.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She
appreciated this bright & beautiful autumn day, like many she enjoyed while
growing up in New England.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was
a naturalist, a gardener and a nature lover.<SPAN
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leader with the congregation and numerous community groups, like the League of
Women Voters, (she did proudly vote in this election), Caroline Putnam was a
role model to many.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was a scientist,
teacher/tutor, musician, and more, and she delighted in the students who
remembered her fondly when they saw her in the grocery store.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Caroline & husband, Bob Putnam (who
died in March 2011) were active in so many aspects of F.U.U.S.M. life- in
leadership, on the Board, the Airplane Contest, Empty Bowls, and the Garden
Tour.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They lived in their Devola
home (50 years) and raised their kids and grandchildren, and numerous 4 legged
ones there on Alden.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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for a memorial service await the family’s wishes, and we join them in sharing
stories and memories of this lovely lady who touched our lives and leaves a
loving legacy among the autumn leaves.</SPAN></P>
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Blessings, Rev. Kathryn
Hawbaker<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV>
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