PALMER descendant, one of Stonington's founding families, dies at 92.
Clarinda York Lincoln, affectionately known as Mimi, died on Thanksgiving Day at the Westerly Hospital.
Born on February 26, 1911, she lived in New York City, and Princeton, New Jersey, summering in Stonington from 1915, when her father bought the property in Stonington Borough, known as "The Hill". He, Edward Palmer York, was a prominent architect, who designed the Washington Trust building in downtown Westerly. Her mother, Muriel Gould York, was, at one time, on the Board of Trustees of Connecticut College.
Mimi, who lived in Providence, Lincoln, Ma., and Minneapolis, always considered Stonington home. She married John Ware Lincoln in 1936 and they remodeled the barn behind the hill house into their residence. He, too, was an architect, and died in 1982.
Mimi was one of the first volunteers at the Museum of Modern Art, in its beginning years, and retained a deep and abiding interest in art, architecture, design, and music during her entire life. She was also an accomplished water color painter. Her other interests were books, gardening, embroidery, and people.
She leaves a son, Edward Palmer Lincoln of Randolph Center, VT. and his wife, Mary, a grand daughter, Amelia Palmer Lincoln of Amherst, MA, two grandsons, Samuel of Vermont, and Christian, of New York, another grand daughter, Hannah Deming of New York, three great grandchildren, and a brother, Edward Palmer York, and his wife Nina, of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Two sons, Jock and Jairus, predeceased her.
Contributions in her name may be made to the Chorus of Westerly, 119 High Street, Westerly, RI. 02891 or to the Mystic Art Association, 9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355.
A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, December 3, at 10:30 at Calvary Church in Stonington. A concert to celebrate her life will be held later, in the spring.