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Ora Tisdale

TISDALE. Ora Harding Tisdale, 97, of 28 Sterling Hill Road, Lyme, died Monday (Dec. 27) at the Crest Elm Convalescent Home in Moodus. She was born in Lyme, October 16, 1896, the daughter of the late James Ely and Ida Gertrude Laplace Harding. Mrs. Tisdale was a lifelong resident of Lyme. She was a graduate of Radcliffe College in 1921, and taught Astronomy and Physics at Wheaton College and Mathematics at Miss Porter's School in Farmington. She married Walter H. Tisdale in Lyme, July 5, 1925. He died March 17, 1983. Mrs. Tisdale was a member and secretary of the Board of Education of Lyme from 1946 to 1952, and was secretary to the Board of Selectman 1957 to 1969. She also compiled the Lyme Town Report for 24 years. She also served as a member and secretary of the Board of Directors of the Lyme Public Library 1950 to 1969. She was a member of the First Congregational Church of Lyme, and an honorary member of the Lyme Garden Club and the Lyme Grange. She is survived by five grandchildren, Anne Magee of Boston, Mass., Kathleen Tisdale, and Peggy Feeney, both of Lyme, Robert Tisdale of Lyme, and John Tisdale of Old Saybrook. She was predeceased by her daughter, Barbara, who died in December of 1953, and her son, Walter, who died January 1, 1987. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Dec. 30, 1993, 11 a.m., at the First Congregational Church of Lyme on Route 156. Burial will follow in the North Lyme Cemetery. There are no calling hours. Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyme Public Library, Route 156, Lyme 06371. The Fulton-Theroux Funeral Home, 13 Beckwith Lane, Old Lyme, has care of the arrangements.
--Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut, December 28, 1993 Page 112

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