FRANKLIN - Katherine E. Seavey passed peacefully at Mountain Ridge Nursing Home in Franklin, NH on January 21st 2015 at the age of 101.
She was born on November 18, 1913 in Brentwood, NH, the daughter of Edgar and Isabelle (Montgomery) Knight. A long time resident of the town of New Hampton, Katherine spent many years serving as assistant town clerk. She and her husband also owned and ran the village store for many years until they closed it in 1949. One has to marvel at the changes in history she saw in her lifetime, the great depression, several wars, the invention of automobiles, the civil rights movement, technology and many presidents to name a few.
Katherine loved to bake and stay busy. It was nothing to drive by the farmhouse and see her out with her chainsaw cutting down a tree, mowing the lawn on her riding mower with bricks on the seat to keep it running because she didn’t weigh enough, or see her up on the roof doing repairs and this is when she was in her 70’s and 80’s. There was no way you were going to tell her she couldn’t do something. She was an amazing, strong, self sufficient woman who never complained. If you asked Katherine how she was doing, her favorite response was “ornery as ever”, but she didn’t fool anyone, everyone knew she had a kind heart.
She is survived by her two loving daughters, Elizabeth Dupont and Terry Wingate, seven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was pre-deceased by the love of her life and husband Arthur, whom she missed very much. She was also pre deceased by her two brothers, Robert Knight, George Liam Knight and sister’s Edith and Louise Knight.
Katherine has gone to be with Arthur, and will be that angel smiling down on all of us from above. She will be missed very much.
There will be no calling hours.
Services will be held at 11AM on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the New Hampton Community Church, 14 Church Lane, New Hampton. A private burial will be held at the Village Cemetery in New Hampton in the spring.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 164 Pleasant Street, Laconia, N.H. is assisting the family with the arrangements.