Laconia----Marjorie H. “Hutch” Taylor (nee Hutchins) of Laconia, NH, passed away on September 25, 2018, after a period of declining health. She was 95 years old.
An Army brat, the only child of Col. Carroll Ray and Dora (Anderson) Hutchins, Hutch was born at Ft. Sill, OK, and raised on various military posts around the world. Her father, a career Army officer, was stationed in the Philippine Islands twice. The family also had tours of duty in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston.
Hutch graduated from Brookline (MA) High School in 1940 and went on to study at the University of Michigan. She later transferred to Columbia University’s Presbyterian School of Nursing in New York City, where her future husband Warren J. Taylor was in medical school at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Both graduated in 1945, Hutch as a registered nurse and Warren as a medical doctor. The couple wed that September in Hanover, NH.
A stay-at-home wife and mother, Hutch helped support her husband’s medical career, which led them and their growing family to short stints in Bedford, MA, Hanover, NH, and Rutland, MA, before Dr. Taylor secured a fellowship in thoracic surgery in Boston. The family settled in Winchester, MA, in the mid-1950s and remained there until Dr. Taylor retired in the early 1990s. The Taylors then moved to Franconia, NH, where Dr. Taylor died in 2001. Hutch joined the Taylor Community in Laconia shortly thereafter, close by two of her children and also near the family’s summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Hutch was an active member of the communities in which she lived. She volunteered at Winchester Hospital and the Winchester Public Library. She was a dedicated member of the Winton Club, an auxiliary group that supports Winchester Hospital. Hutch also served for many years as the treasurer of the Winchester Unitarian Church. In Franconia, she was a trustee of the Abbie Greenleaf Library, a volunteer at Littleton Hospital, and a member of the Franconia Winter Club. The Taylor Community will remember Hutch as a friendly face and an active volunteer for many years at that continuing care facility.
A stoic personality and steadying influence, Hutch raised four successful children. She is survived by a son and three daughters: Wayne J. Taylor and his wife Gayle of Rehoboth, MA; Leigh T. Buckman and her husband David of Gilford, NH; Jane T. Gallant and her husband Michael, also of Gilford; and Virginia T. Picci and her husband Cosimo of Ecublens, Switzerland. She was blessed with six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Hutch will be interred next to her husband Warren in Elmwood Cemetery in Franconia, NH.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Hutch’s memory to the American Cancer Society, 2 Commerce Drive, Suite 110, Bedford, NH, 03110, www.cancer.org.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Pleasant Street, Laconia, NH is assisting the family with the arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial go to www.wilkinsonbeane.com.