LACONIA – Connie Milner, 96, a longtime resident of Laconia, died peacefully on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at Mass General Hospital in Boston, Mass.
She was born on November 2, 1918 in Woburn, MA., the daughter of Ernest W. and Ina G. (Beattie) Milner. Connie graduated from Woburn High School in 1936. She attended the Warren Academy School of Nursing at Choate Hospital from 1936-1939. She worked as a Registered Nurse at the Choate Hospital from 1940 to 1950. Connie received her BS from Boston University School of Nursing and a MS from the Boston University School of Education. She was on the faculty of the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing for 15 years and the Lasell Junior College School of Nursing for 28 years. She was the chairman of the Lasell Nursing Department for many years. Connie retired in 1985. She then volunteered at the New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn, MA for 11 years. She moved to Laconia in 1999 and has resided there ever since. Connie attended the North Woburn Congregational Church, Tremont Temple, Burlington Congregational Church, Reading and the Moultonborough United Methodist Churches.
She is survived by her foster sister, Patricia Chadwick of Chili, NY, a niece, Helen Milner Parker of South Windham, ME., her nephews Thurston Milner of Orlando, FL and Merrill Beattie of Winder, GA, her cousins; Barbara Cogswell of Alexandria, NH, Janet Stinchfield of Hinsdale, NH, Miriam Downs of Andover, NH, Diane West of Nashua, NH and Sally Tarte of Center Harbor, NH and many extended family, students, friends and her cat, Cricket.
There will be no calling hours.
A graveside service will be held at 1PM on Friday, January 9, 2015 at the Forest Glen Cemetery in Reading, Mass.
A memorial service will be celebrated at 11AM on Saturday, January 10, 2015 at the Moultonborough United Methodist Church, 1018 Whittier Highway
Moultonborough, NH.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Moultonborough United Methodist Church, PO Box 188, Moultonborough, NH 03254-0188 or to the New Hampshire Humane Society, PO BOX 572, Laconia, NH 03247.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements.