TILTON ----- Carlotta (Hanks) Gruenler went home to Heaven on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
Born July 8, 1941, to Claude Ames and Beatrice Bragg, Carlotta grew up in the Tamworth/Moultonborough area with her father and paternal grandmother Blanche Ames. She graduated from the Quimby School in Sandwich, NH. She married Gil Hanks in 1960, and had three children with him, Michael, Melinda, and Marcia. She met John Gruenler later in life and spent 29 years of love with him
Carlotta was a spitfire and did not hesitate to say what was on her mind ... but she was a hard worker and multi-talented.
She did LNA work while she was a young woman and went on to work with Meredith Village Savings Bank in the early days of One Bay Point in Meredith. She worked many years with the Risdon Company (Franklin Brush), the only mascara brush factory on the east coast until they moved the operation to Mexico. Her last adventure in the workforce was with Evans Mart, Tilton, making many friends along the way.
Carlotta is survived by her three children, Michael Hanks of Belize, Melinda Hanks, and her life partner Erik Parker Sr., of Tilton, NH, and Marcia (Hanks) Chase and her husband John Sr. of Moultonborough, NH; her 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband John on February 4, 2021.
Wilkinson-Beane-Simoneau-Paquette Funeral Home & Cremation Services and 603Cremations.com, 164 Pleasant St., Laconia, NH, 03246, is assisting the family with arrangements. For more information and to view an online memorial, please visit www.wilkinsonbeane.com.